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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the decision to reduce PE from a full subject, 198 hours over three years, to an optional short course, 100 hours, in the new junior cycle framework will impact on the implementation of the Healthy Ireland Framework, the cross-Government policy for health and well-being, which calls for the full implementation of PE and SPHE in primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the limiting of PE in the new junior cycle framework to a short course of 100 hours will impact on the Government’s intention to reduce childhood obesity levels, which are currently at epidemic proportions where one in four girls and one in five boys are overweight and obese, and on the implementation of the Healthy Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in order to enable persons to fill out a student grant application form properly, he will introduce a third category for mature students who live at home but are not financially dependent on their parents, who share bills equally but do not have any bills in their name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41856/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cónascadh Comhlachtaí (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas maidir le todhchaí COGG; cén tionchar a bhí ag cinneadh an Aire COGG a thabhairt faoi bhráid CNCM; cé na himpleachtaí a bheidh ag an gcinneadh sin i dtaca leis an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge agus an bhfuiltear fós chun dul chun cinn leis an gcinneadh; agus an...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Projects (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 342. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht where the famine commemoration will take place in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41865/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: City of Culture (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 343. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the procedure in order to apply to become a city of culture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41866/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 346. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the national monument in Moore St; Dublin 1; the process by which any further developments will take place; if any new application for a development in that vicinity, and which affects the monument, will have to return to him for approval before being considered by the planning authority; or if it will...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Museum Projects (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 347. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to develop a permanent exhibition to the famine in the National History Museum of Ireland in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42311/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Museum Projects (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 349. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to establish an official record database of the famine in the National Museum of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42313/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 348. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to designate famine workhouses as national monuments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42312/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment Issues (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 391. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason raw sewage is being released into the River Bride in Tallow, County Waterford; the person responsible for this; the actions that will be taken to end this practice immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41940/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment Issues (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 392. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the commencement and completion dates for the waste water treatment plant in Tallow, Co Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41968/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 508. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there are advocacy groups to assist parents whose children are in care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41798/13]

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: It is not a fact.

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: That is because of changes in their circumstances.

Topical Issue Debate: Road Tolls (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Anyone who drove through Fermoy in the 1990s and early 2000s and was caught up in inevitable traffic delays will remember a sign on the Dublin side of the town apologising for the delay and demanding a bypass. Following a long-standing campaign, the local community was very pleased when a bypass was finally built. In many respects, however, Fermoy did not benefit from the bypass because a...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Tolls (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. While I understand this is a pilot scheme, in light of the need to support businesses in Fermoy, does he accept that including the Fermoy bypass would make a significant difference for the town, especially given that flood relief works are taking place? Local businesses face significant pressures and some are closing with each passing month....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to incorporate Kilmainham Court House into the Kilmainham Jail Experience; and the timeline for the incorporation of the Court House. [38501/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he will take to promote employment for those considering emigration and the number of emigrants that have returned to take up employment. [42820/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: While 56,000 people came into the State, the CSO figures illustrate that 89,000 people have emigrated over the past year. This figure translates to 1,700 people leaving every week. The recent National Youth Council report found that a quarter of the population had a direct experience of emigration of a close family member and that half of all 18 to 24-year-olds would consider emigrating....