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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the education and training boards who have notified her or her Department of their intention to apply for overdraft facilities; the stage at which these processes are currently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39508/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Work Placement Programmes (14 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 7 May 2014, if this information was ever received by her Department from the Department of Social Protection; and if she will provide this information. [38926/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (14 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding applications within the ACELS/QQI or IEM recognition system at the moment; the reason for excessive delays; when this will be resolved. [39265/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (14 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of English language schools which have closed who were registered with ACELS/QQI at their time of closing. [39266/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (14 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding MEI being viewed as a quality assurance organisation for language providers; if she acknowledges MEI would have a vested interest in assuring the number of language providers in the State be reduced. [39267/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (14 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many English language schools and education providers have a number of concerns regarding the new regulations; and her views on same. [39268/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (14 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the role of ACELS in quality assurance for bodies outside of the State for the purposes of facilitating the recognition in the State of awards of those bodies. [39269/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (14 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason organisations outside of the State were not recognised as awarding bodies for the purposes of awarding English language qualifications within the State. [39270/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (14 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on her Department's work on developing plans for a parents' and students' charter; the date on which they expect a consultation process to begin; the date on which the charter will be in force. [39271/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (14 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 312. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the proposed changes designed to speed up the planning process and the way this will aid schools in the planning system. [38975/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that applied behaviour analysis is a scientifically based system that has proven its worth and in the long term would save the State money; if she will change her Department to reflect these views; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38634/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Proposed Special Educational Needs Model: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: One of my questions concerns the profiling of a school. The deputation touched on it in the recommendations about the possibility of an independent appeals process if a school disagrees with the decision. Will the deputation provide more information on that? Is it something the deputation will tease out in the coming period through consultation? I am unsure whether the deputation is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Proposed Special Educational Needs Model: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: Who has access to the information and what happens to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Proposed Special Educational Needs Model: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I welcome our guests. I commend the working group on the model it has proposed. It certainly has a great deal of merit. When it was initially published, I spoke to the Minister about the timeframe that might be used to roll it out. I was a little surprised to hear her say she does not think it will be ready for next September, and that it might even take until September 2016 to prepare...

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: Does the Minister agree it is unacceptable?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I would appreciate that because the Minister for Finance was pretty clear in his answer, stating that any proposed cuts which take effect in 2015 would not have to be considered in terms of a neutral budget. On the capitation grant, like all new Ministers, when she entered office the Minister got a briefing document from her Department. It was a fairly extensive document, which I read....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is not what was said.

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which will remain in prefabricated accommodation outside of her Department's five-year plan; if she will provide an update on her Department's site acquisition processes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37921/14]

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: The question relates to the progress and the delays with the five-year plan for the school building programme.

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will be the first to acknowledge there has been increased funding in this area and that we are seeing a number of new schools coming on stream, although obviously, not at a quick enough pace to address the under-funding of capital projects down through the years. On the issue of long-term planning, which I touched on in committee while the Minister was present, I do not believe the...