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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Job Numbers (28 Feb 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs created by new investments by Industrial Development Agency sponsored companies in County Donegal over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10819/13]

Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I join Deputy Troy in commending Deputy Kelleher for putting forward this motion tonight. Health insurance is one of the payments that families have struggled to keep up at all costs as finances have become tighter. Like many Deputies, I have come across many families who have explained to me that their mortgage and health insurance are the two bills they struggle to keep on top of. For...

Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Instead, during the first two years in government, we have seen more 1,000 people leaving private health insurance every day and coming back into the public system. Instead of those who need insurance getting public insurance and the services that would go with it, the opposite has been the case. We have seen a real lack of leadership to bring our health services around and changing their...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit (5 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of recipients of maternity benefit in 2011 and 2012; the total amount spent in 2011 and 2012; her plans for this benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11102/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider permitting four teacher schools who have 20 learning support hours to combine their support hours with their resource teacher hours in order to make a full-time post in order to avoid teacher fragmentation between these schools and to prevent wastage and duplication in relation to teachers having to travel between various...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that his Department addresses any issue with regard to the clustering of schools for learning support hours, that in cases where schools were unable to reach agreement locally on clusters that his Department adopt a policy ensuring that schools with the higher number of hours would be assigned as base teachers; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licences (5 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the time-frame it takes for his Department to grant a foreshore license after the application is received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11643/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (5 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the 2012 disadvantaged area scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11592/13]

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Can we have some order please? Deputy Kelleher has the floor.

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Deputy Kelleher has the floor.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Visas (6 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria in bringing international students to Ireland to study in private college; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Poverty Issues: Discussion with European Anti-Poverty Network (6 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome Mr. Hanan and Mr. Ginnell to the meeting. I thank them for their attendance and for making a submission on this important issue. I ask for details on the European Anti-Poverty Network's international relationships and how the organisation is funded. This is my first meeting with the delegates. It was stated in the presentation that one third of children are deprived in some way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Poverty Issues: Discussion with European Anti-Poverty Network (6 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I ask Mr. Hanan to elaborate on that statistic. What type of deprivation is being experienced? How has it changed since the recession began in the past five years? The national anti-poverty strategy stipulates a requirement for poverty-proofing. I am interested in hearing the views of the delegates on how this operates. A number of measures have been introduced and it is not clear how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Poverty Issues: Discussion with European Anti-Poverty Network (6 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: What is the dynamic between the number of people who are currently homeless and on the streets and the reasons behind it? Could one categorise the problem? I accept some homeless people have issues with drug and addiction problems. Do other categories of people also become homeless? There is an allowance for unemployment and also rent supplement, which is by no means generous but it is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education Budget: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for attending. What are the Minister's current expectations as to whether he will be obliged to deliver further cuts to the education sector in the budget? Does he envisage budgetary pressures next year within the system which may lead him to cut some programmes? For example, as the Minister pointed out, this year 450 additional teachers were hired in September at both...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Higher Education Grants Eligibility Criteria (7 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the report of the capital asset implementation group will go to Cabinet; if he is considering proposals that children from a farm with net assets of more than €750,000 will be excluded from third level maintenance grants; where such a figure originated from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12114/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Higher Education Grants Eligibility Criteria (7 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I am disappointed the Minister did not answer the question I asked, whether he is considering the introduction of a capital assets test that would see productive assets in excess of €750,000 included when assessing families for a maintenance grant. I would like a direct reply to that question. It has been given wide coverage in newspapers. If it is the case, where did the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Higher Education Grants Eligibility Criteria (7 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Does the Minister stand by earlier comments on this issue he made on "Newstalk Breakfast" in March 2011, when he said that he wanted to reform the way in which student grants would operate and that, until now, there had been a bias towards the self-employed and the agricultural community, who were able to manipulate their income so their children could avail of grants? Does the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Higher Education Grants Eligibility Criteria (7 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Does the Minister not believe figures are being manipulated now?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Student Grant Scheme Delays (7 Mar 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is true that he had just one informal meeting with the CEO of City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee and that there was no other correspondence between his office and the DCVEC during the entire four months of the student grant crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12115/13]