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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Issues (17 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the DEIS examined the benefits of introducing a third semester for third level institutions that would increase the teaching cycle from 24 weeks to 36 weeks a year and his further views that this would provide a much better training cycle for students and a possible 50% productivity increase with four-year degrees being completed in less than...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Issues (17 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to introducing a more robust and transparent system of performance evaluation for third level lecturers that focuses on evidence of changes made in teaching practice and the establishment of specific teaching standards to be reached. [44979/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: VAT Payments (17 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the total annual amount of VAT paid by primary and post primary schools in the 2011/2012 academic year. [44976/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on implementing variable school capitation rates which reflect the annual maintenance and running costs of schools. [44977/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Deployment (17 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider implementing a review of the type of research output by third level lecturers; if he will consider introducing changes to the existing legislation that would mean that university staff would teach a set number of hours, unless they have a full-time research schedule, which is signed off by a high level in-house committee. [44980/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (17 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the savings that would be accrued from ending State subsidies to Catholic fee paying schools. [44981/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (17 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered exempting primary and post primary schools from paying water charges. [44982/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (17 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered reducing the cost of water charges to primary and post-primary schools. [44983/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (17 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of works paid for by the Health Service Executive on behalf of the Brothers of Charity Southern Services between 2009 and to date in 2012 [45153/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Funding (18 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department have made any applications for Ten-T funding; and if so, for which projects. [45140/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry Issues (18 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport having regard to the reduced detail and frequency with which tourism statistics are published by the Central Statistics Office, if his attention has been drawn to the importance of reliable and frequent data for policy purposes and also for the various agencies with regard to operational management; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (23 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the delegation of powers to local authorites in areas of environment, water, foreshore, local or community development, roads or traffic, housing and energy efficiency (details supplied) that will take place; the way this delegation will take place; and when it will take place. [46074/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (23 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current turnaround times for vacant local authority homes and the average number vacant at any given time over the past 12 months. [46196/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to training in Middletown centre for Autisum Spectrum Disorder, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of people participating in each of the training topics provided by Middletown; the number of classroom hours of training in each topic per person trained; the details of the correspondence with the professional bodies who...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder who have attended Middletown and the length of time those children attended. [46102/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder that have been directly treated by staff employed by Middletown; the numbers of hours per child treated at the centre and through outreach by staff employed at Middletown. [46103/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will define the term affected as used by Middletown in relation to its affect on over 400 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder; the way the affect on children attending Middletown is measured; and if he will provide a definition of the term trained as used in the Middletown Inspection Report. [46104/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that the most common duration of course delivery for the 3,000 persons trained at Middletown is two hours. [46105/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of independent reviews of the effectiveness of courses in Middletown in terms of their delivery of training and value for money and to provide a breakdown of the amounts paid to fund individual courses. [46106/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (23 Oct 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether short courses in a specialised discipline such as behaviour analysis, that are provided for continuous professional development for teachers does not equate to an approved qualification in that specialised discipline, especially when international standards of training exist for that specialised discipline for example the...