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Other Questions: Job Creation Data (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the fact we are seeing an increase in the number of jobs created at national level. The 58,000 jobs created in the past year are very welcome. That is the way we all want to see our country move. We want to see more people getting back to work but since 2011, we have seen unemployment grow in the Border region. The figures out yesterday show that in the Border region,...

Other Questions: Job Creation Data (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: The encouraging stream of site visits by the IDA to the county, to which the Minister referred, was a total of one in 2012. There have been four visits this year. Unfortunately, under his leadership, there have been very few site visits and little new investment in the county. The Minister pointed out that companies there continue to expand but those companies are already there. We need...

Other Questions: Job Creation Data (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: The county has the highest unemployment rate in the country. The county is not doing well.

Other Questions: Regional Development (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 8. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific projects that he plans for County Donegal arising from Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012 - 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50565/13]

Other Questions: Regional Development (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: My question is to ask the Minister the specific projects he has planned for County Donegal arising from Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012 - 2016. Specifically I would like the Minister to outline the projects he has planned as part of that. His Department is spending more than €500 million per year on capital projects in the coming years. Can the Minister give an assurance...

Other Questions: Regional Development (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I asked the Minister specifically for the specific projects he has planned for County Donegal under Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012 - 2016. The Minister is spending approximately €500 million in capital under that programme in the coming years. He made no reference to any project in his answer. He barely referred to the capital investment plan. With due respect, all I...

Other Questions: Regional Development (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister has a plan for 2012 to 2016. It is the capital infrastructure development plan. I am well aware that other Departments are involved in road projects but I am putting those as three specific projects that could help create jobs. I have asked the Minister if there is anything in his plan that could assist the county. So far, all we have got from the Minister is generalities....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision can be expected on a student grant appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50869/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Payments (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a letter from Student Universal Support Ireland informing them of their application number, provisional eligibility and checklist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50920/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the student grant appeals board will confirm a grant in respect of a person (details supplied); when same will be awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51002/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the total of some 40,000 student grants awarded by Student Universal Support Ireland up to end October 2013, the number of those that were renewals; the number that were first time applications; of the remaining applications to be processed, the number that are renewed; the number that are first time applications; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the position with regard to the ethos of a particular school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [51068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the process by which a new school was established as a community college rather than as a junior/senior model school; if he will report on the type of school recommended by parents and by an independent report; and the reason a decision was made in advance of publication of this report (details supplied). [51069/13]

Other Questions: Summer Works Scheme Expenditure (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I too welcome the fact there will be a minor works grant and a summer works scheme this year. The fact the Minister discontinued it last year left a lot of schools in a very difficult situation. The CPSMA, which is the management body for 90% of primary schools, indicated that half of our primary schools are in debt. Fund-raising events are taking place left, right and centre in every...

Other Questions: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: It is being presented as such by the Minister.

Other Questions: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: That is where this has come from.

Other Questions: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Absolutely.

Other Questions: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plans to include the family farm in means test assessments for third level support have now been discontinued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50225/13]

Other Questions: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: My question is on whether plans to include the family farm in means test assessments for third level support have been discontinued and whether the Minister will comment on that. As the Minister knows, he made very public comments on this in his role as an Opposition education spokesperson and since he came into this Ministry. It is a source of great concern to self-employed people and to...

Other Questions: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Large savings and funds are relevant to people who are not self-employed as well as to those who are. The Minister could do with a reality check in regard to his assessment of how well the farming community is doing. If he wishes, I can bring him around the farming community in County Donegal or in any other county. They have just come out of the most difficult winter and spring in recent...