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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be made available for ongoing maintenance and replacement of computer equipment in the design and communication graphics room in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53920/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the computer stock provided to implement the T4 subjects no longer have the capacity to operate the revised software designed to deliver the curriculum; when he plans to put a grant-aided purchasing framework in place to provide for the replacement of this computer stock in schools; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Numbers (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one, two, three, four and five teacher Gaelscoileanna in non Gaeltacht areas by county at the end of September 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53928/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Numbers (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one, two, three, four and five teacher minority faith schools in each county at the end of September 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53929/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Numbers (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one, two, three, four and five teacher schools in each county at the end of September 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53930/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Numbers (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one, two, three, four and five teacher Gaelscoileanna in Gaeltacht areas in each county at the end of September 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53931/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 515. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm that funding will continue to be made available in 2014 through Pobal to a preschool (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54028/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 546. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for national lottery funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53736/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (12 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: This is not the first time, unfortunately, I have had to raise this issue on the floor of the Dáil. When I raised it previously, the Minister for Justice and Equality said he did not see Border areas as special cases in respect of how policing plans are laid out and developed. He saw no distinction between the needs there and the needs in other parts of the country. Unfortunately,...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (12 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I understand that the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, is unable to be here today. However, as the Minister of State, Deputy McGinley, will be aware, Garda resources in Border counties, particularly Donegal, have been drained during the past two to three years to the extent that they are now exceptionally stretched and at a level which makes it difficult or impossible to...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Has the value for money review of small schools gone before, and been discussed by, the Cabinet? Why has it not yet been published? I understand the Minister for Education and Skills has the review for more than nine months. This is important in light of the fact that since the Government took office, it has increased the pupil-teacher ratio by four points for schools with 85 students or...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: The review should be laid before the House.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (12 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that have closed in County Donegal as a result of the revised schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53488/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Preschool Services (12 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of his Department in the Government's preschool quality agenda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53629/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Years Strategy Implementation (12 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of his Department in the development of the national early years strategy; the number of staff from the early years education policy unit in his Department who are involved in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53630/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (12 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy programmes in his Department that cover the early years and preschool sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53631/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the delegates for attending and supplying their presentations in advance of the meeting, as well as their comments today. With regard to gaelscoileanna and education through Irish, has there been engagement with or a response from the Department? Do the delegates believe it was an oversight on its part in not including the opportunity for an interview? Obviously, if we are going...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Book Rental Scheme (11 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role his Department plays in book rental schemes; if he has provided any funding for same in 2013; if any public moneys have been allocated for same; the criteria or guidelines in place for awarding any such funding; if there is an applications process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53249/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Management (11 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 108. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans in relation to dormant accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53161/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Cafés Provision (11 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 157. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on an application for a youth café by an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53162/13]