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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (16 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding options available for community based migrant groups who wish to start language lessons for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1819/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Consultancy Contracts Data (16 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of consultants or consultancy firms employed by his Department during each of the past five years; the purpose and duration of each of these consultancies or consultancy contracts; the names of the consultants or firms; and if he will list architectural consultancies separately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1820/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Severe Weather Events Expenditure (16 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of any damage to schools or educational facilities during the recent severe weather spell that he has been notified of and the cost to repair any damage. [1821/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (16 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the qualifications needed to teach as a learning support teacher and the reasons for these particular qualifications. [1832/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (16 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and his plans to address this anomaly. [1833/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related, advisory, capital, advertising and accountancy; the company name and the amount invoiced between 1 May 2011 and 31 December 2013. [1926/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will go back to section 29 appeals. I take on board Mr. Malone's analysis that these are cumbersome and nobody likes them. Parents do not like them. The Department does not even like them. However, the reality is they are useful as well. In 2012, there were 355 section 29 appeals. Some 141 of those were resolved, and I presume that was through the mediation process. Only 66 appeals...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is that down to the common application policy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: Could the communications centres act, in effect, as mediators before we get to a section 29 appeal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I thank our guests for appearing before the committee. As Deputy McConalogue has said, this is our third session of hearings on this Bill. Many of the issues addressed were raised in the previous two hearings but I believe this is the first time we have touched on the subject of children in care. As Deputy McConalogue said, there is some thinking for us to do on that. One of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total allocation of funding to the State Examinations Commission during each of the past six years. [55196/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of staff employed by the State Examinations Commission. [55197/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired teachers employed by the State Examinations Commission. [55198/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the top ten rates of pay of staff in the State Examinations Commission and their job titles. [55199/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rates of pay that will be allocated to the ten staff of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55201/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will personally intervene in the case of a student (details supplied) in Dublin 7 and ensure that she is assessed for a SUSI grant in her own right as an estranged young person under 23; if he is aware that she has been told by SUSI that she will not be assessed as estranged unless she can produce a letter from a Health Service Executive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate the circular which states that fees for school transport may be paid in two instalments. [1136/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department have examined the costs involved in amending the payments system for school transport fees to allow a monthly payment system for parents. [1137/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of parents in Greystones, County Wicklow, regarding the enrolment policy of the new school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; the proposed enrolment policy for the school when the patron sought patronage; the current enrolment policy being used; and his views on the changes and plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility (15 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 18 December 2013, if he will ensure that persons (details supplied) in County Cork both have separate home tutors on the basis that their needs, behavioural profiles and attention spans are very different and a single pooled home tutor will be unable to meet either of their needs adequately; and if...