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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (11 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 780. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to continue the scheme launched in 2015 which gave persons of 62 years of age and over the opportunity to continue on the community employment scheme until they reach the retirement and pension age of 66; her plans to continue the scheme; her further plans to consider lowering the threshold to 58 years of age; and if she will make a...

Other Questions: Third Level Funding (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State indicated she watched a programme on Sky last night. A report was published in the UK yesterday and it serves as a very clear warning about the proposed system. I disagree with the people who have proposed it but they have done much interesting work. Yesterday's report makes for devastating reading for working class children if the system is introduced here. In...

Other Questions: Third Level Funding (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: What is the figure?

Other Questions: Teachers' Professional Development (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department supports and the total investment involved in teacher continuing professional development at primary and post-primary levels; the detail as a percentage of education spending overall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31563/17]

Other Questions: Teachers' Professional Development (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: This is related in a sense to the previous question. It relates to continuing professional development for teachers. The Minister made a number of pointed comments about the real importance of leadership in schools at primary and secondary level. I share that view, it is critical, but the Minister should remember that every teacher, and I am surrounded by them at the moment, is a leader in...

Other Questions: Teachers' Professional Development (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: Continuing professional development is critical to developing leadership.

Other Questions: Teachers' Professional Development (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: What I am saying is that every teacher is a leader in their own classroom.

Other Questions: Teachers' Professional Development (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister misunderstands me somewhat. I said two things, first that the Minister has referred to leadership in schools in the sense of people in posts of responsibility and principalships. In my view of education, every teacher is a leader in his or her own classroom because when the door to the classroom shuts, what happens in that classroom is influenced enormously by the interaction...

Other Questions: Teachers' Professional Development (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: What is the Minister doing about it?

Other Questions: School Staff (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to implement the recommendations of the teacher supply in Ireland technical working group report Striking the Balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31560/17]

Other Questions: School Staff (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister confirm if he proposes to establish a standing group to supply, and plan for, the future needs of the teaching profession in our schools at primary and at secondary level? Does he accept the recommendations, which are a simple set of regulations, of the technical working group to plan for an adequate and appropriate supply of teachers at primary and secondary level?

Other Questions: School Staff (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for his reply but I am not any the wiser. Is he going to establish a standing group? He said he had just published this report but it has been available for some time. Does he propose to accept the recommendation in the report on the establishment of a standing group? The report references what is required in primary education. There would seem to be a very broad...

Other Questions: School Staff (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister indicate if he will end the practice I mentioned, which is unfair to new people entering the teaching profession. For the past three years hundreds of extra teachers have been employed every year and some schools are splitting the jobs at second level, part of that obviously is a function of subjects. It is not fair that quite a number of younger graduates in their third...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: No, I was speaking about the current site.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the delays experienced in commencing the construction of the permanent buildings of a school (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact the 2017-18 first class needs to be accommodated off campus at a site in Broombridge; if his attention has been drawn to the concerns parents have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: The question deals with the issue of the Educate Together school that opened in Pelletstown in September 2015. It appears that children will now have to be bussed to and from the school. The suggestion that is worrying some of the parents is that some of the lessons are going to be on a bus. The Department has had plenty of notice about this school, which is serving 2,000 apartments and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: I imagine the Minister is familiar with Pelletstown. It is just behind Ashtown. It is on the railway line. Is the Minister seriously saying to parents that this is the best he can offer? This is a 2,000 home development. They are mostly apartments but there is housing too and more housing is being built. The community has been building for ten years and the school has been open for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister seems to be washing his hands of any concern for the parents and children involved. A 2,000 unit development is, by any standards, a large development. A school represents cornerstone infrastructure. The site for the school is now the marketing suite. This requires the Minister to have an open mind to enable him to do the best for children and parents. We can go on and on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to research by Trinity College on religious education which found young students do not want to be separated from each other according to faith; his views on the effects of this practice; the policy initiatives his Department has to deal with this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31564/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Primary Online Database (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of his Department’s inspection and supervision of the primary online database system, its function in respect of assessing school needs, appropriate funding and allocations of the capitation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31561/17]