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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: A significant percentage would not be able to continue for longer than two years, based on current financial projections. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Has the research shown that the schools that are able to manage are those which are able to raise funds from parents and elsewhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Is the primary reason for this the cuts to various grants, including the minor works scheme, the summer works scheme and the capitation grants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Let us say more than 10% of schools will have to close within the next two years. What type of scenario does that present to the archdiocese? Is the archdiocese faced with further amalgamations? Where will it go from there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: This committee is well aware of the huge pressure on the primary sector in the context of funding. It is interesting to hear Ms McDonagh's perspective on it in the context of the schools with which she works.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome Ms McDonagh and her colleagues to the meeting. I am sure there are many specific issues which members wish to raise with Ms McDonagh today. Ms McDonagh indicated that there are 15 schools currently in discussions with regard to amalgamations and that this process could lead to nine new schools. In regard to the 466 primary schools in the archdiocese, what discussions have taken...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Special Education has included any recommendations stating that girls in an all-girls primary school should get less learning support than girls in a mixed primary school as part of its recent review; if not, the reason he allocates less learning support to an all-girls primary school compared to a mixed school; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in advancing an application for a new school in order to meet the long-term accommodation needs of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27562/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Sign Language (25 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to recognise Irish Sign Language as an official language of the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27442/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be made available for a new school (details supplied). [26681/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the reduction in hours of class contact time for science in the proposed new junior cycle from 240-270 hours to 200 hours is a step backwards for our second level students; and if not, the reason he believes this is not the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27131/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (24 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 389. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a table (details supplied) will be updated to include 2014 figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27030/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (24 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 540. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the medical card eligibility guidelines in order that all third level students would automatically have full entitlement to a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26679/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 665. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand the national immunisation schedule this year and if there is sufficient funding available to support any proposed changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27386/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (19 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Unfortunately, the reply does not address a couple of the key concerns I put to the Minister, which farmers raised this morning. They felt they had to come to Dublin to protest. I outlined that the average beef farm income is €15,000 and the average sheep farm income is €11,000. By and large, farmers with commonage attached have small incomes. The key point I made to the...

Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (19 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: It is unfortunate that the Minister of State has not really dealt with the particular questions I asked.

Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (19 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (19 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Tom Hayes, for taking this matter. As the Minister of State knows, there was a protest outside his Department today by farmers from many counties, especially those along the west coast and the south west, about GLAS and, in particular, the restrictions the Minister of State and the Minister are placing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (19 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 32. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans under the Common Agricultural Policy reform proposals to assist and support young farmers who have been farming for more than five years to build a viable farming enterprise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26139/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Mr. Dave Moore and Mr. Bruno Mateus Francio for coming in today. I commend Mr. Moore and his organisation on the representation, work and support they have given the many students who found themselves in a desperate and stressful situation as a result of what happened. It is a sad reflection that something like this could have been allowed to happen, to go on for so long and that...