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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mainstream schools with special classes here. [45567/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of guidance counsellors working in our schools. [45568/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (18 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the rate of capitation grant paid in 2012 and each year since 1997. [45569/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (18 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent on the capitation grant in 2012 and each year since 1997. [45570/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (18 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the total amount spent on the school book grant in 2012 and each year since 1997. [45571/12]

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (17 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the need for a fresh UN mandate to help end the Syrian civil war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44896/12]

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I commend the Minister and his officials on their undoubted work over recent months in researching and drafting this Bill and in looking at how best we can structure education and training throughout the country for the future. The Minister referred to two landmark dates in Irish education. I have no doubt this Bill, which is the first since 1930 to really reform how the work done by VECs...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (17 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans for the further rationalisation of Irish embassies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44885/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her proposals for the future of sick pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44417/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Energy Conservation (16 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans for schools to implement targeted energy efficiency programmes to cut wasteful usage of lighting, heating and electronic equipment, in view of the fact that existing voluntary and piecemeal projects show the potential to save 15 - 40% of schools' energy costs within two years, using models and guidance provided by the Sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (16 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures that were followed in relation to the appointment of a Principal to the staff of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he will detail the background to and purpose of this initiative; if his Department was directly involved in the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44255/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (11 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures that were followed in relation to the appointment of a principal to the staff of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he will detail the background to and purpose of this initiative, if he was directly involved in the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43913/12]

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I commend my party colleague and recently appointed spokesman on agriculture, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, on bringing forward this motion. It is a timely debate, which coincided with the march by 20,000 farmers in this city yesterday, whose purpose is to emphasise the importance of the agricultural sector to our economy and to highlight the challenges facing farmers in this country....

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: It certainly does not come up to the mark that is required in order to satisfy demand. In addition, the underspend in this envelope last year, which reverted back to the Exchequer, shows that more could have been done earlier in regard to this particular scheme. There has been a great deal of good news relating to the agricultural sector. 2011 was a particularly good year for farmers in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I had to leave the room, and I apologise if this question was covered during my absence. In the course of his presentation, Fr. O'Connell outlined that a voluntary secondary school inexplicably continues to receive €90 less per pupil each year than a comparable community and comprehensive school and €212 per pupil less than a vocational school. Will he elaborate on that point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I join the Chairman in welcoming the organisations before us and I thank them for taking the time to appear before the committee to give us the benefit of their experience of the costs involved in parents sending pupils to school and in the challenges that will arise in that regard in the coming years. I also thank them for their suggestions on how it can be addressed and improved. It has...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates Publication (10 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the revised procedures he is putting in place for the 2013 estimates; if he intends that they would be referred to Oireachtas committees in advance; if details of proposed expenditure measures have been submitted to the EU/IMF and the European Commission; if he plans to maintain the confidentiality of these until such time as they are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Digital Schools Award (10 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the digital school award in primary schools; his plans to enable all schools to achieve this award; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43627/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (10 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount from his Department's budget that is projected to be spent on ICT in primary schools in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43628/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Croke Park Agreement (10 Oct 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of changes in work practices negotiated under the terms of the Croke Park Agreement with the schools inspectorate through their union; the date on which such changes were implemented; the savings that resulted from any changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43629/12]