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Other Questions: Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 6. 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 effect on the income levels of already-struggling farming families; the reasons she refuses to carry out an analysis to assess the impact these changes have had on those families; and if she...

Other Questions: Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has carried out an analysis on the impact on farmers of her changes to farm assist with respect to income disregards; if she will reconsider the changes she has made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17714/14]

Other Questions: Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: This is to ask the Minister whether she will consider reversing the changes she has made to the farm assist scheme with respect to income disregards since she came to office, given it has had serious negative consequences on farm income levels for already-struggling farm families. Second, will the Minister carry out an analysis or assessment of the impact these changes have made to farming...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a review will be carried out of the levels of disadvantage in our primary schools to allow schools that are currently categorised as band 2 DEIS status to be considered for band 1 status, in view of the fact that the levels of disadvantage among pupils in many schools has changed considerably since the survey on which the current DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are sufficient public transport links to effectively service the feeder area for a school (details supplied) in an environmentally sustainable manner; if transport will be provided for children from the feeder area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18110/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Relocation (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons behind the relocation of a school (details supplied) in view of the fact that there is a falling demand for primary school places across Ballyogan since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18111/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Relocation (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the feeder area that a school (details supplied) will serve; the extent to which the location of this school will meet his Department's commitment to sustainable development in line with his Department's technical policy on site selection of safe access for all and the Department of Transport's smarter travel programme which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his policy regarding applied behavioural analysis intervention in the education of children with autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18116/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his policy on building new schools where public access is only available via roads that have not been taken in charge by the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18159/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the effectiveness of the HPAT examination as part of the examination qualification for entry to medicine courses; his views on recent reports that grind courses are being given to prepare students to perform better in this HPAT examination; if the HPAT examination is serving its purpose of broadening entry to medicine and ensuing a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Establishment (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the development of a new Educate Together school at Shelly Banks in the Sandymount-Ringsend area; if planning permission has been obtained for a temporary site; if a permanent site has been identified; the number of pupils the school will cater for in September 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18193/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) at a new site on Haddington Road; the number of pupils the new school is expected to cater for; the increase this will represent on combined numbers attending both schools currently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18194/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who have been unable to access a school place in a primary school for September 2014 in the Donnybrook, Sandymount, Ballsbridge and Ringsend areas; the measures he has taken to address the level of excess demand; if he will give an assurance that all students will have access to a school place in their own locality in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 85. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person on the back to education allowance may take up unpaid work experience during the summer months without it affecting their social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18128/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals (16 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of a rural environment protection scheme appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18225/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency visits to County Donegal in 2013, Quarter 1, 2014; the number of confirmed visits for the remainder of 2014, together with his plans on the way his Department are actively encouraging companies to relocate in County Donegal; his further plans to increase the level of IDA grant aid given to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 123. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Industrial Development Agency Ireland has delivered on assurances which his Department received from IDA Ireland that it would in 2013 seek to target more than 130 new investments, secure €500 million of research and development expenditure and create 13,000 new jobs in its client companies; the element of new...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the tax implications on a transaction which involves two farmers swapping small parcels of land without any financial compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17697/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the current lack of secondary school places in the Castleknock-Carpenterstown area of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17395/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change the qualifying criteria for July provision to include children with Down's syndrome regardless of their IQ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17520/14]