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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposal by KWETB for a new national training centre for pre-apprenticeship and post-apprenticeship training in Maynooth, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34461/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reform the model of leadership in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34763/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 242. 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. [34779/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide primary and post-primary average class size figures for Ireland and other EU member states; his plans to tackle large class size concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34764/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 247. 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. [34784/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commencement of Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are remaining sections of the Teaching Council Act to be commenced; the timescale 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. [34765/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commencement of Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he will address concerns that the Teaching Council, in the absence of a statutory complaints procedure for use at school level, will be expected to address complaints that are better resolved at local level and thus have fewer resources to deal with very serious complaints that may arise. [34767/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commencement of Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans and the timescale in respect of complementing the fitness-to-teach provisions of the Teaching Council Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34781/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he proposes to publish a draft of the education (parent and student charter) Bill; the details of the proposed pre-legislative scrutiny process; and the timetable in this regard. [34766/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 233. 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 views on whether it is unacceptable to maintain such pay disparities; his plans to address pay equality issues beyond the steps already agreed in regard to restoration of a qualification allowance payment;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed the recently published Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill of the Labour Party; his views on the aims and objectives of the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34770/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is planning 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. [34771/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Reviews (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status on the roll-out of junior cycle reform process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34772/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 237. 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, SLMRU, such as business administration and management, the green economy, financial services, IT, manufacturing engineering, sales, marketing and transport; the way in which he plans to tackle these skills shortages; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: After-School Support Services (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the suggestions by the Irish National Teachers Organisation that related capital investment will be necessary if the programme for Government commitment on having schools available for child care services can be successfully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34774/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage the review of the school support programme through the DEIS, Delivering Equality of Opportunities in Schools 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. [34776/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 240. 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. [34777/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new national action plan for educational inclusion will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34778/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Professional Development (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 243. 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; if he will provide this figure as a percentage of education spending overall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34780/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timescale for and cost of the Government's programme commitment to reducing the pupil-teacher ratio in junior and senior infants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34782/16]