Results 4,301-4,320 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien

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

Jonathan O'Brien: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of English teachers employed within the secondary school system. [26291/15]

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

Jonathan O'Brien: 565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce a cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, and defibrillator training module to the transition year module; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26293/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I thank Mr. Burke for appearing before the joint committee. I want to touch on two issues. I will come back to the issue of reasonable accommodation which has been mentioned by Deputy Charlie McConalogue. Is there any move to introduce an online system of paying examination fees to the State Examinations Commission? I understand the fees have to be paid in a bank. One cannot even pay...

Topical Issue Debate: Postal Services (23 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, for attending to take this Topical Issue, which is one that has been raised with me by postmasters in my constituency in recent weeks. I am sure that postmasters have been contacting Deputies in other constituencies about it as well. It relates to the revised application form for pensions that was sent out by the Department of Social...

Topical Issue Debate: Postal Services (23 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and welcome his statement that the wording of the application form will be changed as soon as possible so as to provide a neutral option. One of the postmasters' criticisms related to how the new form recommended financial institutions as the preferred option. I understand that some people may want to receive their payments electronically via...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (23 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 190, 239, and 243 of 14 February 2012, the resource that was used to state 42% of schools did not have a full-time guidance counsellor at that time; and the percentage of schools that do not have a full-time guidance counsellor at present broken down by fee-paying and non-fee-paying schools. [24519/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (23 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a complete update, including funding allocation, identification of a location, and timeframes, in relation to the provision of permanent school buildings for primary and post-primary Educate Together schools in Stepaside in Dublin 18. [24624/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (23 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of teachers in the primary school sector who are teaching in a multi-grade setting and who are teaching classes containing three grades; four grades; and more than five grades. [24961/15]

Order of Business (18 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I concur with Deputy Cowen-----

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: We will be supporting this legislation. It is long overdue to say the least. It has been debated ever since I was elected here in 2011. I published a Bill in respect of repealing the discriminatory nature of that legislation. The Labour Party and Fianna Fáil published Bills relating to it. Members of the Technical Group have also published a Bill on it. I do not know if it was in...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 10:In page 27, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“Review of operation of Act 24. The Minister shall—(a) not later than 2 years after this section comes into operation, commence a review of the operation of this Act, and (b) not later than 12 months after its commencement, make a report to each House of the Oireachtas of the findings made on...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I do not agree, based on the fact that legislation should constantly be reviewed, that this always happens. That is clearly not the case, as we have seen in the case of many pieces of legislation. We need only look at the position of the Clerys workers to identify the inadequacies of that legislation. Given the concerns raised and that we are talking about the teaching profession, it would...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I support this amendment and believe the default position should be that hearings would be held in private. As Deputies Coppinger and Boyd Barrett have outlined, if it is in the public interest that a hearing should be held in public, it can be, but the default position should be that hearings are held in private. The Teaching Council can then decide case by case whether there is a public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average primary school class size for the 2014 / 2015 school year. [23966/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current pupil teacher ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23967/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school children who were in classes of 30 or more during the 2014-2015 school year, by county. [23968/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time frame it would take and cost to reduce pupil-teacher ratios to 20:1, at the rate of reducing class sizes by one pupil per year, taking into account growing number of students in the next few years. [23983/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 415. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legal recognition of pre-nuptial agreements in view of the legal recognition of cohabitation agreements for non-married partners. [22992/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of providing training for all teachers at post-primary level in the mental health and emotional wellbeing aspect of the Social, Personal and Health Education Curriculum, in order to ensure that teachers are skilled to deal with the problems faced by students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23353/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Meals Programme (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for her Department to take over the responsibility for food provision in schools from the Department of Social Protection. [23722/15]