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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will lift the moratorium on filling certain promoted posts in schools, given that it was introduced as an emergency measure in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18728/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Professional Development (29 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ways, including investment, in which he supports continuous professional development for teachers at primary and at secondary level; the investment as a percentage of overall education spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18729/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (29 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when he will implement the fitness-to-teach provisions of the Teaching Council Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18730/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timescale and cost of the commitment in the programme for Government to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio in junior and senior infants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18731/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (29 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of schools under religious patronage which he will divest in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18733/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Programmes (29 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 217. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the skills training and the selection of participants under the Defence Forces' linked programme with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18732/16]

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Education policy can throw up many opinions and preferences, some of them contradictory, but most of us agree that children benefit from meeting and getting to know others from different backgrounds and religions. Most of us agree that diversity in our schools is an opportunity for society, not something to feel threatened by. No Member...

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister attend a meeting of the education committee in the next week or two and before the review is initiated to set out in detail what has actually happened to the fund? I have worked with and known personally for many years quite a few of those who were in different institutions. I continue to meet them all the time. People come up and tell me their stories. Before the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed the recently published Labour Party Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill; if he supports the aims and objectives of the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18564/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Following on from the previous discussion, does the Minister agree it is unfair and discriminatory that parents feel they have to baptise their child in a particular religion to have a serious chance, if not certainty, of securing a local school place in the area where the child lives? Will the Minister consider supporting, therefore, the Labour Party's Bill, which proposes to amend the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the Labour Party Bill is to acknowledge the constitutional right for religions to be recognised and practised as people wish. That is agreed by most parties in the House, if not all. However, we are faced with an uncomfortable scenario where parents, especially when their first child attends school, find out that unless they are of a particular religion, they are unlikely to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I appreciate that but given the likely duration of this Dáil, the Minister has suggested a full year of consideration having had five years of consideration during the previous Dáil and more consideration during previous Dáileanna. The net point is that it is good on the whole to ensure children have a reasonable opportunity to attend school in their own neighbourhood and to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish the report (details supplied) into funding of the third level sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18565/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of delays to commencement of the rebuild at a school (details supplied); if he has now examined the timetable of construction and the reasons for delay; if he is aware of the urgent need for this project to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18007/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of delays to commencement of the rebuild at a school (details supplied); if he has now examined the timetable of construction and the reasons for delay; if he is aware of the urgent need for this project to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18008/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Issues (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 509. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of complaints from the residents of Hollystown and surrounding areas in west Dublin in respect of the noise generated from early morning and late night flights to and from Dublin Airport, between the hours 12 a.m. and 7 a.m; the number of these flights that have taken place in 2015 and 2016 to date; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Noise Pollution Legislation (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 510. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations in place to minimise and mitigate the noise levels to residents in the Hollystown and surrounding areas in Dublin west from aircraft taking off and landing in Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18021/16]

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: James Connolly said, "Ireland, without its people, means nothing to me". To paraphrase Connolly, Europe without its people means nothing to me. Can we speak of European people? We are Irish and European, French and European, Polish and European. We see the shock and anger among people and a new fear of a further period of uncertainty as to what this profound historic rejection means. It...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State was smiling when I mentioned this in the Chamber last week. If we are to have a discussion, we must talk about this. Where is the Europe of Jacques Delors? Are we being offered the Europe of Jean-Claude Juncker with a multi-billion euro investment plan that has no levers to provide for investment by countries such as Ireland? While the plan is very welcome, it does...

Other Questions: Consumer Protection (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I spent perhaps three years trying to persuade the Minister's Department that the Money Advice & Budgeting Service should be able to accompany people to court. We only got the go-ahead for that less than a year ago, and it has already proven to be extremely useful. Many people have not engaged at all and they are terrified of the approaches from these funds. What will be done? Many...