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One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: No bother. The Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, was in the Six Counties recently while negotiations were going on and she sat on her hands and said nothing. Then we get members of the Labour Party coming in here and criticising Sinn Féin, saying we stand over the cut-off of five years of age within the Six Counties. It is wrong that people who have never even crossed the Border come in...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have listened to most of the debate last night and tonight. To be honest, I have found some of the contributions from the Government benches bizarre. I have heard words such as "incentives", "encourage" and "immediate incentives to find extra work". This is the rationale for the policy changes the Government is bringing forward. I looked at the Government's amendment to our motion. It...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: We are not happy.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Deputy should tell that to his party leader.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: We actually process them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I thank all the witnesses. I also pay tribute to Senator Moran for the role she has undertaken as rapporteur. My question is directed to the NCSE in respect of the 3,000 refused applications. Does the NCSE have numbers on how many of those 3,000 applicants would have had access to an SNA? How many of the 3,000 refusals were appealed and were successful on appeal? How many would have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: Will the representative from the National Parents Council expand on the issue of peer support? I have noticed when I speak to principals, those on the boards of management or parents of children with special educational needs such as dyslexia dyspraxia, Asperger's syndrome or elements of all three, that there would be consensus on the part of some parents that they would not want to have a...

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: He would throw them under a bus.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 208. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of new applications for home help that were approved for each of the past six months in the south Lee area and the north Lee area in County Cork. [26538/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of new applications for home help that were approved, but not allocated due to financial constraints, for each of the past six months in the south Lee area and the north Lee area in County Cork. [26539/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider ring-fencing the current capitation grant rates for primary schools and introducing a supplementary system whereby schools may apply for additional capitation funding based on the condition of the school and other needs in order to introduce a fairer scheme and to address the higher expenditure older schools incur. [25913/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the administration of her Department’s primary online database project, involving the collection and storage of information on children in the primary school system, including her plans to defund schools if they do not co-operate with the project, and her consultation with parents on information that is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Staff (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the practice within some institutes of technology of appointing chaplains, and using public funds to do so without advertising, tendering or following public procurement or public appointment guidelines; the public funding that was used to pay for chaplain roles in 2012-13 and in 2013-14; and her plans to rectify this. [25734/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Expenditure (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a policy paper recently launched by Barnardos calling for an additional €103 million in education funding to provide a truly free primary education system; and her plans to move towards a primary schools system where parents do not pay towards books or transport. [25737/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the results of a survey of academics in institutes of technology commissioned by the Irish Federation of University Teachers and the Teachers' Union of Ireland that shows that lecturers are spending time on language and writing skills with students to the detriment of actual teaching time and that many international students...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of an incident in a County Limerick school where it has emerged that hidden cameras were placed inside the school without the knowledge of staff, parents or pupils; and if the Data Protection Commissioner is investigating this matter. [25735/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Facilities (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware two students with disabilities at Saint Angela’s College in County Sligo are unable to visit the canteen because of accessibility issues. [25736/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 23 June 2015, requesting information on the number of teachers in the primary school sector teaching in multigrade settings with classes containing three, four, five or more grades, the reason this information is not available; the information held by her Department on the number of multigrade...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 519 of 23 June 2015 requesting information on the number of schools currently without guidance provision, her views that it is considered best practice under the current delivering equality of opportunity in schools policy to allow schools to provide no guidance counselling hours for their students; the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of guidance counsellors employed within the secondary school system. [26290/15]