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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he can justify a cut to training allowances for young persons in vocational training opportunities scheme, Youth Reach and FÁS at a time when he is meant to be encouraging persons to upskill and help them with the costs of accessing further education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55874/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Places (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons currently in receipt of training allowances under further education and training programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55875/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the loss of 75 teachers in small schools in 2013 will result in the closure of any of these schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55876/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there have been any cuts or changes to the school completion programme in Budget 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55869/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Reform of Third Level Education: Discussion (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I join the Chair in welcoming our guests and in thanking them for their contribution to the committee's efforts to assess the future reform of the third level sector and the challenges that need to be met in the immediate future in order to ensure we have a strong and sustainable third level sector. All four groups have provided comprehensive presentations outlining the issues as they see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Reform of Third Level Education: Discussion (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: What happens in the following year? If that €25 million is not delivered next year, it will mean they will be down by that amount. No one is seeking to take out a further €25 million. Will the €25 million in question ultimately fall due?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Reform of Third Level Education: Discussion (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: They will not pay it as quickly-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Reform of Third Level Education: Discussion (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: -----and that will continue to be the position.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Reform of Third Level Education: Discussion (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: It is interesting to discover that there is not a pot of cash in a bank somewhere from which the €25 million can be taken. What will probably happen is that there will be pressure exerted on the institutions to find other ways of procuring this money. Last year they looked at the areas in which they had the capacity to locate resources. Such areas could, for example, relate to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Reform of Third Level Education: Discussion (12 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Do we know from where the €25 million is supposed to come? At the outset Mr. Casey outlined the ways of managing cash reserves, compared to reserves being put aside for capital development, as Dr. Hinfelaar said. Do we know from where the money is supposed to come? Does the HEA decide on that? How will the money be spread among the institutions, or is that clear yet?

Other Questions: Coillte Teoranta Lands (13 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the proposed sale of the Coillte forest crop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55980/12]

Other Questions: Coillte Teoranta Lands (13 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the proposed sale of the Coillte forest crop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55980/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Budget 2013 (13 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his view on the impact of Budget 2013 changes to low income dry stock farmers with suckler cows and sheep with changes to the suckler cow welfare scheme, the sheep grasslands scheme and disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55967/12]

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: How much time have I left?

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I hope the Minister was listening to the previous speaker because, unfortunately, the Minister has not been listening to the points raised by others. This is yet another regressive tax in a regressive budget. It will hit families on small and medium incomes in the same way it will impact on those on higher incomes. Other regressive measures in this budget include the removal of PRSI...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Why did Fine Gael promise not to introduce a property tax?

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Fine Gael promised in its election manifesto that it would not introduce a property tax.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (18 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of posts that will be lost in PLC schools as a result of the changes to the pupil teacher ratio in budget 2013 in view of the fact that a significant number of teachers in the further education sector are on part-time fixed term contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56716/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (18 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons teaching in PLC schools; the number that are in full time permanent posts and the number that are employed on part time fixed term contract posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56717/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (18 Dec 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that many of the 200 posts to be lost in PLC schools next year are specialist posts, the impact that this will have on cuts to specialist courses and the specialist courses that will be affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56718/12]