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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide primary and post-primary average class size figures for Ireland and for other EU member states; his plans to tackle large class size concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16847/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider further improvements in the pupil-teacher ratio to help reduce the class size towards EU average in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16864/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commencement of Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are remaining sections of the Teaching Council Act to be commenced; the timeframe for commencing such sections; and the number of fitness to teach complaints received and processed to date since he commenced these provisions in July 2016. [16848/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific measures he plans to deal with concerns regarding third level student support and funding challenges for third level institutions. [16849/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there is a clear pay disparity between teachers recruited before 1 January 2011 and those recruited thereafter; his further views on whether it is unacceptable to maintain such pay disparities; his plans to address pay equality issues beyond the steps already agreed on restoration of a qualification allowance payment; the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Croke Park Agreement Issues (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to issue a directive on implementing pay deductions for members of teachers' unions that rejected working additional hours under the Croke Park agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16851/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Reform (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status on the roll-out of the junior cycle reform process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16852/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the areas that have been highlighted as having skills shortages by the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (details supplied); his plans to tackle these skills shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16853/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Care Services Provision (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the suggestions by an organisation (details supplied) that related capital investment will be necessary if the programme for Government commitment on having schools available for childcare services can be successfully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16854/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to progress the three areas (details supplied) in the education sector that he has identified as his core priority areas of focus in the sector; the reason he has prioritised these three areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16855/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage at which the review of the school support programme through the DEIS initiative is at; when this review will be completed and published; if he envisages any changes to the funding or delivery model of the DEIS programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16856/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new national action plan for education inclusion will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16858/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide new courses in the leaving certificate, such as coding, physical education and politics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16857/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the moratorium on filling certain promoted posts in schools will be lifted, since it was introduced as an emergency measure in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16859/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to end the current ban on promotions at the primary school level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16870/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Professional Development (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ways, and total investment involved, in which his Department supports teacher continuous professional development at primary and post primary levels; the percentage this is of education spending overall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16860/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeframe for and cost of the Government programme commitment to reducing the pupil-teacher ratio in junior and senior infants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16862/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the restoration of postgraduate grants and their necessity to open up access to postgraduate studies and to ensure that a steady stream of persons achieve a postgraduate qualification for societal good and to ensure attractiveness to foreign investors. [16865/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for equating newly qualified teachers since 2011 and those that entered the workforce before; if he will report on discussions with an organisation (details supplied) on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16866/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve access to special educational supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16867/17]