Results 5,721-5,740 of 6,678 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation and participation rates in Youthreach courses for each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18540/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Funding (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation and the number of guidance posts for further and higher education over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18541/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation to third level research and development over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18542/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Funding (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation to the strategic innovation fund over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the savings that could be achieved if a capital means test was introduced for the student grant with a cut-off point for assets over €500,000, €750,000 and €1,000,000, excluding the family home, working farmland and business assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18544/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 16 September 2016, if he will provide a breakdown of the spend in the same areas for 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18545/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the ongoing industrial action in Bus Éireann that will affect school transport; his plans to address this concern in view of upcoming exams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18688/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing the junior certificate oral exam in every school; the cost of providing sufficient state examiners to assess the orals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18689/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is legislation in place preventing teachers from changing a person's clothes in the event of an accident or injury; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18691/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which schools will be able to secure additional resources from the NCSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18692/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the 519 schools that have appealed their allocation under the new resource allocation model by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18693/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend the early start programme; the locations of each of the early start programmes that are in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing a one hour workshop in all primary and post-primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18695/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Administration (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a case of alleged misappropriation of funds by a national provider contracted to provide training courses through service level agreements with local education and training boards; the scale of the alleged misappropriation; the ETBs that have been affected; the steps he will take to ensure that service level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a bus route (details supplied) was downgraded from a 58 seater to a 40 seater; the number of children previously travelling on the route that no longer have a seat; the length of time each pupil was travelling on the route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18697/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his office will contact a person (details supplied) regarding school transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18680/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which proposals to increase the national training fund levy, such as those in his Department's consultation paper on the employer's contribution to further and higher education, will be accommodated within the expenditure ceiling of his department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18679/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to remove schools from DEIS that no longer meet the criteria; the number of schools that would be affected; if the criteria would be based on educational performance or on socio economic indicators; the details of the criteria that would be applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18678/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Payments (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the back to school clothing and footwear allowance by €50 per child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18513/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (12 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason supervisors under the rural social scheme have been informed of a change in their terms and conditions; if his Department intends that this scheme will focus on job activation; if this is the reason for the increase in places under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18677/17]