Results 4,201-4,220 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien

Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister has pushed this agenda since this report came out. I remind the House that the report was only passed on the basis of the chairperson's casting vote. In an unprecedented step, the CEO of Cork City Council came out and outlined the reasons this should not happen. I accept that the chief executive of Cork County Council, Tim Lucey, is now saying he is in favour of it. Just two...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 332. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax liability of those on community employment schemes; and if the rate paid to persons on the CE schemes for adult dependants, and child dependants, are liable to be taxed, whether for PRSI, USC, or any other forms of taxation. [31270/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1001. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of an issue whereby the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council will not issue a licence to persons to continue training as a paramedic intern practitioner after a break in study due to a period of illness; the most appropriate route for re-registration; if he will put in place a back-to-practise policy; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1002. To ask the Minister for Health to explain the reason the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council will not issue a person (details supplied) in County Cork with a licence to continue training as a paramedic practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31433/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 30 June 2015, if she is aware that the institutes of technology are not following the provisions of the Employment Control Framework at present, as they are allowing publicly-funded positions to be filled by the local Bishop, rather than based on objective criteria around the best interests of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that chaplain roles within the Prison Service are routinely advertised through the Public Appointments Service; and if she will introduce a mechanism to ensure that institutes of technology follow this process. [30477/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 30 June 2015, the recourse available to the Higher Education Authority if the recruitment of chaplains is not in line with public sector appointment criteria or the Employment Control Framework for the sector; if she is aware of the fact that most of the recruitment to these positions within the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Councils (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have student councils; the number of schools that do not have student councils; the cost of running the student council support service; and the funding and staff allocated to it during each of the past three years. [30667/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the Teaching Conciliation Council will make a decision on whether teaching service in another EU Member State before taking up a teaching position here, will count towards relevant service for the purposes of entering teaching on a higher pay scale.. [30777/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Bus Éireann cannot go off-route to collect school children under the school transport scheme without the prior approval of her Department; the reason her Department will not accept any such application for re routing unless there is a minimum of ten additional pupils to be collected; that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has identified a site for the new Cork Educate Together Secondary School, which her Department has indicated is intended to be located in the Cork south suburbs within the functional area of Cork County Council; if her Department has engaged with Cork County Council as the planning authority, in connection with seeking...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of difficulties being encountered by teachers who qualified abroad in being registered with the Teaching Council; if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 can be registered with the Teaching Council; and the reason for the delay with the Teaching Council in progressing this registration in view on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for refusal a special needs unit to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and the level of special needs a school must reach before receiving this type of assistance. [31260/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for including rental accommodation scheme and rent supplement payments as means for the purposes of assessing eligibility for Student Universal Support Ireland grants. [31277/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a response to matters (details supplied) raised by persons who have taken cases having been victims of abuse in schools here. [31343/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that since a ruling on the case of a person (details supplied) the State Solicitor has rejected cases similar to theirs; and the reason this has happened. [31344/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of settlements offered by the State to cases coming within the terms of the European Court of Human Rights decision in a case (details supplied); the number of cases currently being considered by the State Claims Agency where there was a prior complaint about a teacher concerned; and the number of cases previously being pursued...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the approach Student Universal Support Ireland takes to processing applications for grant assistance when a person has applied on independent grounds but cannot provide a utility bill in his or her name as it is in the landlord's, or where the landlord refuses to register with the Private Residential Tenancies Board; the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a child (details supplied) in County Cork; the way a child may avail of a school transport scheme for a bus when no bus serves that school; if she will ensure that the student is allowed to avail of the bus service given that they attend the nearest school to them that is served by a bus; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 1289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students refused the Student Universal Support Ireland grants during 2014 to 2015 who were Irish citizens refused on habitual residency grounds. [31522/15]