Results 4,201-4,220 of 5,087 for speaker:Kathleen Funchion

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Expenditure (6 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's expenditure on legal fees in each of the 16 ETBs in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by case name and record number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44660/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (6 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid by his Department on consultancy services from 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the details of these payments; the companies and or persons that received payments; the amount received by each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44661/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid to retired education inspectors from 2013 to 2018; the details of these payments; the persons that received payments; the amount received by each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44662/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary school teaching staff placed on administrative leave from 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the duration of each administrative leave; the costs incurred to facilitate the placing of teachers on administrative leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44663/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (6 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the potential closure of a school (details supplied) in County Carlow due to lack of funding; and his plans to prevent this from occurring. [44680/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (6 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of financial settlements reached with staff in schools nationally in the past five years; and the cost of these settlements. [44681/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (6 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of financial settlements reached with students in schools nationally over the past five years; and the cost of these settlements. [44682/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of financial settlements reached by his Department nationally which included confidentiality clauses. [44683/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (6 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused their application for a SUSI grant in view of the fact that they were accepted by a university for a place for a bachelors degree; his views on whether it would be inappropriate and unfair to halt them pursuing their education due to a lack of funds as a result of the refusal of a grant; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports being put in place for a person (details supplied). [44269/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (25 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the steering group set up earlier in 2018 to address the problems with teacher recruitment; and the progress of its work to date. [44320/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (25 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on the hiring of private psychologists for the assessment of needs in south and north County Tipperary since 2008; and the average waiting time for assessment in early intervention therapies for ASD for the same time period. [44263/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (25 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the adult respite available in County Kilkenny; and the number of persons accessing this respite service. [44264/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (25 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 215. To ask the Minister for Health if a service (details supplied) in County Kilkenny provides adult respite both day and overnight. [44265/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (23 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recent written request to the schools capital appraisal section of his Department by the principal and the board of management of a school (details supplied) to have its application for the replacement of the dilapidated prefab at the school with a permanent classroom, toilet block, storeroom and support room will be reviewed and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has had a departmental official assigned to their farm; the purpose of the placement of this official on their farm; and the reason they have been instructed to make the official aware of activity on the farmland prior to carrying out those activities. [43362/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I raise the issue because the cost of going to third level has moved beyond the reach of many people. In the first instance, fees are at the €3,000 mark while many people fail to qualify for the SUSI grant. While I appreciate that there is a Minister of State with responsibility for higher education who is not the Minister, we need to look at the SUSI system and how grants are given...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome what the Minister says about parents. At a time when a parent is letting a child fly the nest, it is very worrying to be unsure about what accommodation is available, whether it is up to standard and where exactly it is located. That is what is so good about purpose-built and on-campus accommodation. It gives students, in particular first years, and their parents the reassurance...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures taken in 2018 to reduce high costs for students accessing further education or towards tackling the rental and living costs they are faced with. [42119/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: The question concerns the costs of further education. It seeks that the Minister would outline the measures taken in 2018 to reduce high costs for students accessing further education or towards tackling the rental and living costs they are faced with.