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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils covered by the DEIS programme over each of the past ten years; the number of schools per county that are included in the programme; the average funding per school and per student over each of the past ten years under the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9235/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of DEIS schools that do not have direct access to a NEPS psychologist for the purpose of carrying out an assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9236/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all DEIS schools currently avail of a school book grant; the number that do not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9237/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of projects in receipt of EU funding under his Department in which partnership between an institution here and in the North was necessary to receive the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9239/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount his Department has provided for demographic growth in the higher education sector for the next five years; the amount provided in budget 2017; if the figure provided is taken into account when calculating the fiscal space; the number of staff who have been hired over each of the past five years specifically to address demographic...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Data (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of staff in the higher education sector in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9241/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average rate of capitation per primary and post-primary pupil over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9242/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated costs of providing an administrative principal to all urban DEIS schools and for rural DEIS schools with more than 100 pupils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9243/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated costs of the establishment of 100 assistant principal posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9244/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Schemes (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated costs of extending the HEAR and DARE schemes to students undertaking level 6 and level 7 courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9245/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Modern Language Teaching (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an estimated cost of the re-establishment of the modern languages in primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9248/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Modern Language Teaching (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the need for greater uptake of modern languages at secondary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9249/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidelines on Obesity (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to implement policy measures in schools to tackle the growing issue of obesity and to encourage healthy eating and awareness of a balanced lifestyle among children and teenagers; the funding that has been allocated to this issue; the resources that have been put in place to implement the measures proposed by his Department; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has put in place a strategy to encourage children to be more physically active in schools; the resources that have been allocated to the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9251/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of all funding allocated to his Department over the past ten years in order to implement curriculum reform, either current or capital; the amount spent and details of the projects on which it was spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9252/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching posts as additional English language posts over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9253/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an estimated cost of extending free school transport to concessionary pupils who hold a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9254/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has put in place guidelines or issued circulars to schools on the standards of vehicles to be used when transporting children during school hours on trips, lessons and so on outside of the school transport scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9255/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) was not included on the DEIS list; if he will reconsider the exclusion in view of the fact that the corresponding boys school at which many siblings of pupils of the school attend has been granted DEIS status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9256/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Study Opportunities (23 Feb 2017)

Carol Nolan: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an Irish citizen, enrolled on a course of study in an Irish university, should be subject to the same fees in an institution in another EU member state when undertaking a year of study at that institution with the support of the Irish university with which he or she is enrolled. [9257/17]