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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (2 Mar 2017)

Shane Cassells: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) who has not been provided with a reader or scribe for the 2017 junior certificate examinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10838/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the new model of allocating GAM hours and resource hours to national schools in the forthcoming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10228/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the new model of allocating GAM hours and resource hours to national schools in the forthcoming school year in relation to scenarios (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10229/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (28 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 435. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a detailed breakdown of recently implemented or proposed changes to the funding or operating terms and conditions of community employment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10234/17]

North-South Interconnector: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: It would have been good if the Minister had included those concerns in his speech to EirGrid.

North-South Interconnector: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: The Government amendment is a dish cloth of an amendment. There will be no buckling with the amendment. It will not fly. Given all of the discussion and debate that has happened, for the Government to come to the House with the amendment is an insult to the people who have campaigned, fought and petitioned us to represent them. I cannot believe that my Meath ministerial colleagues would...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to counties Meath and Westmeath in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6278/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body which has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6281/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to counties Meath and Westmeath for tourism and hospitality skills training by his Department in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6280/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Funding (8 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated to counties Meath and Westmeath for tourism and hospitality skills training by his Department in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6279/17]

Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (7 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: The Minister is right that it is a matter of how we provide the connection which is in question. This is my third time to discuss the matter in the Chamber with him. All I want to know is whether he accepts the figures that have been put forward by NEPP in respect of how much it would cost to move the project underground, which has been a huge point of debate. Does he accept the figures...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (7 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will address the concerns of residents and businesses in the Piercetown area of County Meath (details supplied) whereby according to a website there is no planned broadband roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5575/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (7 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the practice in which persons in receipt of jobseeker's payments that take up temporary employment for a period are then prevented from entering a community employment scheme until they are on jobseeker's payments again for 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5574/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Administration (7 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 395. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review underpayments to a person (details supplied) in County Meath under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5566/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (7 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 577. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the provision of broadband in Addinstown, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6020/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (2 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 244. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will put in place to reduce waiting times for multiple sclerosis sufferers who require assessment as responders to fampridine, based on a protocol provided by clinical experts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4984/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (2 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will put in place to expedite access to fampyra for multiple sclerosis sufferers identified as responders to fampridine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4985/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Administration (2 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 314. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is a liaison person in his Department to whom public representatives can submit broadband queries on behalf of members of the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4986/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 364. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a record is maintained and monitored of the number of participants on community employment child care schemes that are retained in the early year’s sector; if her Department engages regularly with the Department of Social Protection on community employment child care schemes; if so, the details of this engagement; and if she...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Shane Cassells: I met a number of Bus Éireann drivers in my constituency office yesterday, who came to speak to me about the plans that are being put forward to decimate the service and which would have an impact on people in our constituency. The Minister referred to Bus Éireann introducing a new plan to help achieve profitability. My fear is that some of the proposals are already being put in...