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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: In terms of the local authority, is it because local area plans are in place? Are there issues around rezoning?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will not mention the name of the school in Cork where funding was in place for many years under the previous Government. This Government has stated the funding is still in place. It is a primary school. Pupils are being taught in a GAA hall and prefabs. The local authority has passed the planning application twice and has been taken to An Bord Pleanála twice. It is now probably...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: What about PPPs?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: My question relates to higher education provision, educational disadvantage and people from disadvantaged areas accessing higher education. I raise this question under this subhead because a scholarship scheme was launched last September targeted at individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. I note that funding for that scheme will be increased again next year. Are there other grants or...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Our briefing paper states there was funding from the dormant accounts fund to address the issue of educational disadvantage. Has this now ceased or will there be more funding from that source? If the Minister does not have that information to hand, he can pass it on to me.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: They are pretty much exhausted.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: There is only one item left. I do not have questions on the administration section.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Third Level Participation (18 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the numbers of students who are currently studying or hold a degree based on the socio-economic groups as defined in the most recent census; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51336/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister of State knows as well as I do that there is a problem regarding the transition of students with special needs from school. We have both attended meetings where there has been criticism of the transfer of students from primary to post-primary, where the process of integration must be started all over again. We are also both aware of the fact that the HSE is completely...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Leaving aside funding and budgets there are other issues on which we can be pro-active and the Minister of State touched on one. We need to plan further in advance. We know how many school leavers we will have and in what area of the State they live. We know what type of services are available. We need to put more emphasis on long-term planning. I urge the Department, the HSE and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list in tabular form the schools that are to have their prefabs replaced with permanent classrooms as part of the €15 million prefab replacement scheme in 2013/14. [28625/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (18 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the running costs of Student Universal Support Ireland from its inception to the end of May 2012; if he will provide a breakdown of these figures and the way they compare to the projected running costs of SUSI, as originally envisaged by his Department when awarding the tender to City of Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (18 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 500. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the range of multi-disciplinary supports provided at a school (details supplied) in County Cork for each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; if he will provide a breakdown of same by discipline, WTE and hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29448/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (18 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 501. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the multi-disciplinary supports provided at a school (details supplied) in County Cork to ensure appropriate services to meet the needs of the pupils; if he will provide assurances that no further cuts will be made in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29449/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (19 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children at a school (details supplied) in County Cork in each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. [29445/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (19 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills ifhe will list in tabular form the schools in counties Donegal and Leitrim that have yet to receive their full allocation of resource hours for the 2013/14 academic year; the date on which these schools will receive their allocation of resource hours; if he will give assurances that his Department will not be implementing cuts to the allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (19 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the reason significant cuts have been made in multi-disciplinary supports for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; the reason these cuts are being made when demand for services are increasing on an annual basis as a result of the rise in the student population at this school; if he will review these cuts in service provision with a view to reversing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (19 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 201. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to the view that the progressing disability plan for the integrated services model is fundamentally flawed because it is not child centred and the needs of children have not been assessed prior to the plan being put in place. [29447/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: I welcome Ms Stewart and her team. Today is very different to the heated meeting we had in November. As a result of that meeting and the fact we got the opportunity to question the group, there was more focus on rectifying the existing problems as soon as possible. One of the things said at the meeting was that we must get through the backlog of applicants and get as many students as...