Results 20,001-20,020 of 23,978 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme (5 Mar 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reversing the changes she made to farm assist with respect to income disregards, in view of the fact that it has had a serious negative affect on the income levels of already struggling farming families; the reasons she is refusing to carry out an analysis to assess the impact that the changes have had on those families; and...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (5 Mar 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20 that has lost a senior caretaker and a clerical officer working 22.5 hours per week, as a result of the moratorium on public service recruitment, will have these posts reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9697/15]
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Is this dealing with primary and preschool education?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Are the summer works scheme and the minor works grant covered under this programme?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Deputy O'Brien might take it up. I need to print a copy of the document. I did not have it coming in the door.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: My question will not be a duplicate. The Minister of State can continue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: My question relates to the provision of guidance services for those who are going on to further education who are developing their skills. The Minister of State might comment on the level of guidance available at different levels within the further education and skills development sector. The ETBs and various bodies such as Intreo would provide some level of guidance, but it is not...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Would the Minister of State elaborate on what is planned with regard to the integrated guidance service plan? How extensive will that be, how many sectors will it range across and what does Deputy English hope to achieve from it?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: The Minister indicated in her contribution that the funding of €25 million to the higher education institutions which was withheld in 2013 and 2014 will be restored. She also indicated there will be no change to the student registration fee in September in respect of the 2015-2016 year, nor in any subsequent years. The increase in student contributions was the main means by which...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Did the Minister do this recently, such as this year?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Where have the increased student contributions been going? Have they gone to the institutions or have they been subsumed into the Department?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Would it be the case that the four increases which the institutions would have received would have been offset by deductions in the funding from the Department of Education and Skills? As such has the money been subsumed by the Department's overall fund or does it go to general Government funds?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Is there any chance there will be a summer works scheme for 2015? If so, what will be the latest date by which it could be announced? It is my understanding that if there was to be one for this current year, applications would already have been sought and received. On the minor works grant, is there funding in the Estimates for the payment of the minor works grant at the back end of this...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Is it within the Department?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: The Minister indicated in her opening statement that those categories that were not included in last year's grant for the summer works scheme may be considered. Is that what she is examining?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: If the Minister were to do it would it be a fresh round of applications or would it be confined to those applications submitted last year but which were not further-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Would there be a fresh round of applications if the Minister were to allocate funding this year?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: To be clear about the minor works grants, no funding is laid out in the Estimate at this stage for a minor works grant to be paid at the end of year. If the Minister were to pay it out, she would have to find the money elsewhere, and it would have to come off other spending columns.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Can the Minister explain that as I do not understand it?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Charlie McConalogue: That would mean it would come from other capital columns.