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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanisms in place to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of access initiatives at third level; if guidelines in relation to best practice have been circulated among institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21414/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of current DEIS schools that would not have met his Department's new criteria for inclusion in the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21415/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in identifying schools to be included in DEIS, each school was given a grade or numerical measure in terms of deprivation according to indicators; the difference in this measure between the lowest new school added to DEIS and the highest school not added to the DEIS programme; if all schools were assessed according to deprivation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to support disadvantaged children in schools not under the DEIS programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21417/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work being done to develop the model of the identification of future complex needs; when the model will be developed and finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21418/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Area Based Childhood Programme (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 658. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the preparing for life programme; her plans to extend it further; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21408/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 659. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff who have been employed under the school completion programme over each of the past ten years and to date in 2017; the number of participants in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21409/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 660. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if guidelines have been produced by her Department in respect of the operation of the school completion programme; if the programme is co-ordinated on a national basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21411/17]

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: Gabhaim buíochas as ucht an deis labhairt ar an mBille tábhachtach seo. First, I commend my party colleague, Deputy Martin Kenny, for bringing forward this Bill. The purpose of this Bill is to ensure that public bodies submit policy measures, legislation and regulations for rural proofing. It requires that regard be had by public bodies to the desirability of reducing...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak about this important topic. I commend my colleagues, Deputies Louise O'Reilly, Mary Lou McDonald and Kathleen Funchion, for their hard work in campaigning on this issue. The figures speak for themselves. Ireland has the lowest number of consultant obstetricians per 100,000 women in the OECD. Three Dublin maternity hospitals are operating with a...

Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: Gabhaim buíochas as ucht an deis labhairt ar an mBille seo. Cuirim fáilte roimh an mBille atá molta ag Teachta Browne agus tá áthas orm go bhfuil mo phairtí ag tacú leis. The Bill contains significant changes that strengthen the rights of people when they are in hospital for mental health care. It is unfortunate, although perhaps not surprising, that to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I remain totally unconvinced that an income contingent loan system is a means to address the financial crisis in the higher education system. I share the view of many others that such a system would impact on under-represented groups and children who grow up in disadvantage. It would exacerbate the cycle of disadvantage and I do not see any...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for his briefing on the Estimates and I concur with the points made about teachers' salaries. It is still a huge issue that is causing division and low morale in many staff rooms across the country. We need a commitment to equal pay for equal work, which is only a very basic and a reasonable commitment, and I ask the Minister to make that commitment. I have a few...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: Fine.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: That is fine.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: On guidance counselling, we have called time and again for guidance counselling to be ex quota, outside the normal staffing schedule. It is a huge issue for many schools and it is unfair to give principals the responsibility of allocating guidance counsellors within the staffing schedule. If we are to think of our disadvantaged students and the impact the cuts over recent years have had,...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: SNAs play an invaluable role in our schools but there seem to be gaps in provision. When children with special educational needs transfer to secondary school, they get little or no SNA support. I have had parents come to me who have children with heightened anxiety, where the SNA was just walking the child to his or her classroom. We need to change that and ensure that a child with special...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: On the same issue, the 2017 targets aim for fewer children to be provided with school transport services in terms of numbers and percentages. This is despite an increase in the overall student population. The figures also show a target for a reduction of 250 routes compared with 2015 figures with the relevant funding remaining the same. Can the Minister of State elaborate on the policy...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: The 2016 target for high-speed broadband in primary schools was 25%. Can the Minister advise if this has been achieved and what allocation has been set aside to improve high-speed broadband access in primary schools? Is there high-speed broadband in all post-primary schools?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: To provide some clarity on capitation rates, which were not increased in last year's budget, will they definitely be increased in this year's budget?