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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Charges (1 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of not increasing the higher education student contribution by €250 to €3,000. [37318/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (1 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of full implementation of the EPSEN Act. [37319/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (1 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils within the education system who are entitled to special needs assistants in schools; the number of SNAs that are allocated to them. [37320/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (1 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of reinstating the five hours of special needs assistant support received by children with special needs from the cut rate of three hours and 45 minutes; the number of extra SNAs that would be needed in order to implement a policy of five hours support. [37321/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (1 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children accessing resource hours in schools; the number of extra resource teachers that would be needed to ensure that all children accessing resource hours received the maximum of five hours resource support. [37322/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the circulars governing the use of investigating social media accounts of persons for social welfare fraud within her Department; and the number of times social media profiles were investigated in the past four years. [36765/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 152. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her staff are allowed set up social media profiles in order to access information when investigating social welfare fraud or if there are specific accounts used for this purpose; and the number of times this has occurred. [36766/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 153. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has purchased services from companies that allow it to view social media profiles of persons or services from app companies that allow it to view the same information; the amount of money spent on these contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36767/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 154. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of control reviews undertaken last year using social media accounts; the outcome of each review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36768/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 473. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the National Positive Ageing Strategy was launched on 25 April 2013 with a guarantee that an implementation plan would follow within six months; the date on which the implementation plan will be completed; the date on which the implementation plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37167/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position for teachers who wish to register with the Teaching Council and the requirement to have completed 300 teaching hours before registration; if any of these hours may be voluntary, undertaken for the purposes of qualifying for registration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36769/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Funding (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated in 2013 and 2014 for Youthreach projects; the number of Youthreach projects in operation in 2013 and 2014; the number of students in Youthreach programmes in 2013 and 2014; the agreed or preferred funding allocation from her Department per capita for each Youthreach project in 2013 and 2014; the agreed or preferred...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to remove one mainstream class teacher from a school (details supplied) in County Galway on the basis that it is short one pupil for the 86 pupil cut-off point this year; if her attention has been drawn to this decision that will mean students being taught in multi-grade classes and a number of classrooms lying...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 23 September 2014, the date on which she expects the primary school in Craddockstown to be in an actual school rather than prefabs; the stage the process of moving the school out of prefabs is at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37031/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (30 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants who have been made redundant in each year since 2008; the number of special needs assistants employed during each of those years; the number of children each of those SNAs was working with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37087/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: How feasible is a five-year plan when we can project demographics down the line? Perhaps we should look beyond a five-year building programme and identify areas where the student population, in ten years' time, will warrant a new post-primary school. We could have short-term, medium-term and long-term building programmes rather than just a rigid five-year programme where a school is either...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: It would be worthwhile, and I have raised this matter before at this committee, to have twice yearly meetings with the Minister to discuss policy and departmental areas. Such meetings would allow us to give feedback as well which is something, unfortunately, that we did not get previously. Her predecessor, Deputy Quinn, was very willing to come before the committee but there was nothing set...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister is probably more aware than anyone else on this committee of the value of the minor works and summer works schemes. When schools do not get minor work grants or qualify for the summer works scheme to do basic work on their premises, that feeds back into the cost of education because at the end of the day, somebody has to repair the heating or fix the roof and so forth....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: Would the Minister deal briefly with school building projects and the elimination of prefabs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is a big concern. I know of one particular school which has been allocated funding by the Department. The school has identified a site but the project is now caught up in the planning process. When that happens, schools get very nervous and are fearful that the funding will be pulled and put somewhere else. They worry that the funding will be reallocated to schools which have secured...