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

Charlie McConalogue: For how long was that course?

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

Charlie McConalogue: Mr. Mateus Francio came here to study for six months. Did that course come with a six months visa or was the visa for longer?

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

Charlie McConalogue: The visa can be one year. Mr. Mateus Francio paid €3,000 for a six months language course and that did not include accommodation or anything like that. That was all extra.

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

Charlie McConalogue: What is Mr. Mateus Francio's view of the proposal put forward by the task force to provide replacement English language courses as an option for himself and other students who are in a similar situation? From his experience what is the situation facing many of these students six weeks or two months after this has happened? Have many gone home, are many still here and are many waiting to see...

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

Charlie McConalogue: Have many of Mr. Mateus Francio's fellow students have gone home at this stage?

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

Charlie McConalogue: What percentage of them have gone home as opposed to those who have stayed here?

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

Charlie McConalogue: What made Mr. Mateus Francio decide to come to Ireland to study? His options would have been to come here or to go to Britain. Would similar students from Brazil go to the United States to study?

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

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Ms Mateus Francio for coming in today along with Mr. Moore to give us that insight.

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

Charlie McConalogue: I would make a few further points. I wish to comment on what Mr. Moore said and what we also heard from the Department. Mr. Francio referred to having checked the international register and the list of approved courses. The course must be approved on the register before the Department issues a visa for someone to study on it in this country. There are question marks over the existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the delegates for appearing before the committee to discuss this issue. I know that the roles of patrons, trustees and the Department are clearly laid out, but are the views of the community and parents taken on board and is their consent to any proposal required before it can be signed off on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Will Mr. Bennet elaborate on that point, the extent of the differential and the impact it is having on schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I wish to deal with different points so it is fine for Deputy O'Brien to deal with that issue first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Resolution Board Remit (17 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 76. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will permit the Pyrite Resolution Board to consider the emerging situation in County Donegal with respect to defective blocks; his plans to address this problem in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25478/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Resolution Board Remit (17 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 109. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the considerations he has given to the issue of defective blocks in County Donegal; his Departments advice on the way affected householders might be able to proceed in engaging with his Department on this issue; the financial supports there are for people who find themselves in this situation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 29 May 2014, in view of the fact that guidance and counselling is a whole school responsibility, if he is therefore stating that he is satisfied for any member of teaching staff to engage in counselling without holding any professional counselling qualification and without any professional supervision...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (17 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the work of the task force to protect students affected by the closure of private language schools; if it has determined the number of students that had not yet been satisfactorily accommodated either through placement or immigration extension; when the task force is expected to complete its work and issue a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing Appeals Mechanism (17 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 27 May 2014, if he will inform the person (details supplied) of his Department's decision as they were never informed verbally by the school in order that they can submit an appeal to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25889/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Administration (17 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 454. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the application process for distribution of funding through dormant accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25610/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: English Language Training Organisations (17 Jun 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 558. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the recent closures of languages schools and the residential status of those impacted, if any temporary measures are in place for people who had paid their fees and were awaiting a certificate from the college to show they were a student, but never received the certificates because the school closed, and now their visas have expired...