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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to implement in full the recommendations of the recent National Council for Special Education Policy Advice Paper on Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs in Schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25860/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for his reply. There is no doubt that the paper is a very thoughtful and constructive contribution to the debate. While the landscape for special needs education has been transformed over the past 15 years, we must always take stock, re-evaluate and see how things can be done better in future. We are now spending €1.3 billion annually on special education with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Student Grant Scheme Reform (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for his reply and welcome the publication of the report on SUSI. The fact that over half of students were not paid their grant until after Christmas last year was totally unacceptable. It led to some students having to drop out of college and exceptional financial duress on families which had to support students in college while they were waiting for a grant to come...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Student Grant Scheme Reform (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: The process failed on two counts. The first was a failure to deliver grants to students more quickly, as the Minister admits, and the second was a failure to make the process more efficient in its first year. I ask the Minister to give an assurance to students that we will not see a repeat of this next year. We need to learn the lessons of what went wrong in this regard, as it is not the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Student Grant Scheme Reform (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the Student Universal Support Ireland review report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25859/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Reform (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the status of proposed higher education reforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25475/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the recommendations and advice that was given to him by the National Council for Special Education in relation to extending dedicated resource hours to Down syndrome children with a mild intellectual disability; his plans, if any, in relation to this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25588/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if resource hours will be extended to Down syndrome children with a mild intellectual disability in the new school year beginning September 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25581/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 429. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the work on special areas of conservation (details supplied); if documents are now available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25030/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 460. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will release the funding of €90m to LEADER groups under the rural development programme 2007-2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25093/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 649. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will fill the sanctioned posts in relation to areas of diabetes care in County Donegal; the reason for the delay in filling these post to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25352/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 650. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 517 of 20 March 2013, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25408/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Statistics (28 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a yearly breakdown for the past five years in relation to a hospital (details supplied) in County Donegal; the budgets allocated; the staffing levels and the subsequent allocation of this staff; the number of patients/admissions that have been catered for; the number of operational beds; the number of retirements that have taken place;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: There is a recruitment embargo.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: It was there last week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Mr. O'Brien for his response and saying that the HSE is examining staff issues both in Carndonagh and Dungloe hospitals. The core of the issue is the recruitment embargo. We need to address the impact that is having in those hospitals. It is very disappointing to see-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: No. Please, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: It is disappointing to state a fact and make it political, rather than dealing with what is a genuine issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I am sorry to see that the Minister took that approach today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I seek a response to a previously submitted question, Question No. 25, part one, on Carndonagh Community Hospital in Donegal, from the Minister for Health and the deputy CEO of the HSE. When the question was submitted over three weeks ago, four beds in Carndonagh Community Hospital had been closed, we were told, on a temporary basis by the HSE. Since then, those four beds have not reopened....