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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if details of the resource allocation for each school will be published; the date on which; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13593/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional resource hours that have been allocated to schools under the new resource allocation model; the number of schools that received additional hours under the new model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13595/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeals mechanism will be available for parents under the new resource allocation when they are of the view their child is not receiving sufficient supports; if he will outline this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce any mechanism of oversight in relation to the way in which resource hours are used in schools as part of the new model; if this was a recommendation of the NCSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13597/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional provision has been made for special education needs co-ordination under the new resource allocation model, as recommended by his Department's inspectorate in relation to the review of the pilot; if schools are expected to provide this from within their resource allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13596/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to increase the employer's contribution to higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13598/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the estimated costs of recruiting a retention officer for each higher education institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13599/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the records that must be provided in order for special needs assistants to avail of incremental credit for previous relevant work experience; the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused incremental credit for one past employer, despite significant past experience; the reason the person has not yet had a decision on an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the reasons a school (details supplied) was refused an application for funding under the summer works grant; if he will reconsider this decision; if his attention has been drawn to the issues in respect of overcrowding due to projected enrolment, as raised as an issue of concern by the inspectorate during a recent whole school...

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “recognises that: — the National Educational Psychology Service (NEPS) is drastically understaffed, with 619 primary and post-primary schools across the State without access to a NEPS psychologist for the purposes of carrying out an assessment; —...

Education (Disadvantage Committee) Bill 2017: First Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move:Bill entitled an Act to amend the Education Act 1998 to make provision whereby the Minister for Education and Skills shall establish an Educational Disadvantage Committee to advise him or her on policies and strategies to be adopted to identify and correct educational disadvantage. The purpose of this Bill is to re-instate the Educational Disadvantage Committee under the Education Act...

Education (Disadvantage Committee) Bill 2017: First Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to allocating additional staff to the audit committee of ETBs in order to ensure that the unit is sufficiently resourced to undertake the extensive workload in an efficient and timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12461/17]

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

Carol Nolan: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new resource allocation model will include an appeals mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12465/17]

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

Carol Nolan: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the circular for the new resource allocation model will be sent to schools and published on his Department's website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12475/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguards that are in place to protect the intellectual property developed in third level institutions in the context of spin out companies and other commercialisation of research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12466/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a legislative requirement on a shareholder of a spin out company established by a third level institution, that is also a member of staff, board or governing body of the same institution, to declare their interest in the shareholding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is a legal requirement that all third level institutions must have a policy governing the conflict of interest of members of staff, board members or members of a governing authority generally and more specifically in the case of spin out companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12469/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a legal framework in place to ensure that staff or those in paid positions of authority within third level institutions that have direct access to and knowledge of research and intellectual property of the third level institution are prevented from making personal gain through the sale or development of the research or intellectual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is normal practice that paid members of staff of third level institutions would become shareholders of companies or other structures established to exploit the commercialisation of the research of the institution in which they are employed; if such shareholdings would be in conflict of interest of the position of employment within the...