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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (17 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the conditions a community school has to meet to offer PLC courses; the regulations to be met in respect of QQI; the cost of meeting these regulations; if his Department provides funding to community schools in respect of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15537/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sports Facilities Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the priority he attaches to the provision and refurbishment of sports halls in second level schools particularly in view of the introduction of sport as a leaving certificate subject; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15536/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (17 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 523. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for asylum. [15270/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (17 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive naturalisation papers. [15271/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (17 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 1165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a deposit return scheme for plastic, drinks and bottle cans similar to the one recently announced in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15538/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (17 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 1166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the discussions his Department has had in respect of an EU plastics tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15539/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 1521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the obligations an applicant is under in respect of the new fast-track planning application process directly to An Bord Pleanála to advertise such applications; the obligations An Bord Pleanála has to make the records from such applications available for view both in local government offices and online; and if he...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Will that be early April for the tenders?

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: That is not what the model was.

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Some €2 million.

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: And the parents.

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Yes. That is what the-----

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his Department’s action in dealing with the fallout from the collapse of a company (details supplied) and contracts undertaken by Departments with the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13416/18]

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: This question relates to the collapse of a company involved in public private partnerships, PPPs, and the affected Capita and Carillion contracts, some of which are with the Department of Education and Skills. Will the Minister make a statement on the current situation?

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: The schools in question are the Loreto college in Wexford, Coláiste Ráithín and St. Philomena's primary school in Bray, Eureka secondary school in Kells, and Tyndall college and the Institute of Further Education in Carlow. When does the Minister expect these projects to be completed, available to the school communities to be taken over and opened? In the case of two of the...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I understand that the tenders are due back by early April. When will that be? Clearly DIF is the Dutch Infrastructure Fund. When does he expect work to recommence to complete the projects? His reply implied all the schools would open in September whereas the understanding that has been given is that in the two projects that are pretty much complete, the school authorities could take...

Other Questions: Teacher Training Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister tell Members what is his estimate of the likely annual cost for a person to transfer from a job in STEM and to retrain as a teacher for primary or secondary education? How many years is that likely to take? How long must the person wait to get on a course? At the moment the indicative cost of postgraduate courses, I understand, is €5,000 to €6,000 a year....

Other Questions: Teacher Training Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: For many working-class students who go to college and take up STEM careers, and then find they want to transfer and become teachers, as the Minister has acknowledged, it will cost them €5,000 a year in fees alone for at least two years. He seems perfectly happy with that idea. Does he understand what it costs to leave a job, or maybe hold on to some element of a part-time job,...

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister supply us with the figures, because what he has just announced really is news? I and I am sure every other Deputy can take the Minister to children who are on the autism spectrum or have behavioural issues, many of whom have parents who are teachers. We understood that their speech and language therapy was to be delivered locally in the school using the model that has been...

Other Questions: Teacher Training Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional initiatives he plans for persons working in science, information technology and STEM that wish to convert to be primary and secondary teachers; the additional costs of conversion for mature students; his further plans to mitigate this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14420/18]