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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: 516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the initial practice of enabling members of the public to transfer approval under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme between local authorities was altered to now require applicants to make repeat applications in each local authority area in which they are considering buying a dwelling. [38346/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: 517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to enable persons that have been approved for a Rebuilding Ireland home loan from one local authority to draw it down from another authority (details supplied). [38347/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: It is important that the delegates are present because as we approached the start of the new school term in September, many of us were receiving telephone calls from distraught parents who did not know how their children would get to school such was the level of uncertainty. As the delegates said, I appreciate that the delivery of the school transport service can be highly complex,, but it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: I appreciate Mr. Kent saying he has regrets in respect of the call centre and that he will try to do better next year but what is being put in place to make sure it is better? If Bus Éireann took on 15 extra people and it was 1,200 calls a day or an extra 35,000 calls, is there an official review stating the demand in August 2018 and that 100 extra people will be needed next year? Who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: My question on Ballinteer Educate Together national school was not answered. There were 100 applications submitted but no one knows what happened to them. The follow on is that for 2018-19, people applied online and they were all deemed to be eligible but every single one of them received a rejection notice. The parents do not know what is going on. They believe theirs is a hopeless cause...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: Okay. Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (26 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: 119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consultant tendering process that was followed by the Office of Public Works to award the contract for the lower Lee flood relief scheme. [38959/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (26 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: 120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the assessment of the Office of Public Works on the feasibility of a tidal barrier did not include the location outlined by a company (details supplied) in its alternative proposal. [38960/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (26 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: 122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the independent cost controls in place for works carried out by the Office of Public Works; and the cost controls that have been utilised on the lower Lee flood relief scheme. [38962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (26 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason there is a gap between the costing of independent experts of between €120 million and €180 million for a tidal barrier and the OPW's report costing of €1 billion for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38963/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (26 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: 121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expenditure on the Bandon flood relief scheme. [38961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commencement of Legislation (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Martin: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will commence the provisions of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018. [39270/18]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: I have asked the Government numerous times in recent years to take action on practical actions for homeowners affected by latent defects in their homes. I met the Minister of State, Deputy English, to discuss the strain that homeowners in my constituency of Dublin-Rathdown are under. He indicated that he would meet them but regrettably he subsequently changed his mind and no such meeting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the introduction of best practice guidelines for schools on the use of restraint or intervention when responding in circumstances in which students pose an immediate threat of harm to themselves or others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39980/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make history a compulsory subject for the junior cycle curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39972/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to providing persons who have a postgraduate qualification in primary school teaching with the option of a streamlined postgraduate programme in post-primary school teaching in order that those looking to retrain would not have to duplicate modules already undertaken. [39976/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allow special needs assistants to take unpaid leave for the purpose of undertaking teaching practice when retraining as primary or secondary school teachers. [39977/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made to allow special needs assistants who are qualified as primary school teachers to work as full-time learning support teachers in post-primary schools with benefits and leave. [39978/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place for the appointment of mediators engaged in the CervicalCheck mediation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39515/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the qualifications the mediators engaged in the CervicalCheck mediation process are required to hold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39516/18]