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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (27 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the school transport application of a person (details supplied) who lives in Northern Ireland and is attending his nearest Gealscoil and had full medical cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27296/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the school transport routes B9004 from Aughrim to Arklow and route number 70810H from Rathdrum to Avondale with a view to increasing the capacity of the service in order to accommodate students who wish to avail of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27297/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any policy in place within the school transport system which prohibits the bus provider from providing a bigger bus even where there is demand for the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27298/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any case whereby a school transport bus provider has been refused permission to increase the bus size on a transport route where students that previously used that route have been denied school transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27299/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed the school transport situation in County Sligo whereby a number of students travelling to schools (details supplied) have been refused school transport; his plans to rectify the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27300/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons the school transport bus service (details supplied) has been downsized from a 33 seater to a 24 seater; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27301/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed the school transport situation in east Cork where a number of children have been refused school transport; his plans to rectify the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27303/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed the school transport situation (details supplied); if steps will be taken to rectify the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27304/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of restoring the pre-2011 criteria of eligibility for school transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27305/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outstanding recommendations of the joint Oireachtas committee report on tackling school costs published in 2013 to be implemented by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26206/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks Rental Scheme (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated each year since 2006 to the school book rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks Rental Scheme (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and percentage of schools per county that avail of funding to provide a school book rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26210/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital spend for 2015 and to date in 2016 in areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26211/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student grant assistance is currently provided to students at some private third level institutions; if so, the names of the institutions concerned; the value of the assistance provided; the rationale for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26212/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been provided each year since 2006 for the provision of special educational needs organisers and senior special educational needs organisers. [26213/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policy Reviews (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the report on science, technology, engineering and maths, STEM, has been completed; when he intends to publish same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26214/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Access to Higher Education (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the report commissioned by his Department on barriers to education for lone parents has been completed; when he will publish same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26215/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outstanding recommendations of the report completed by the Higher Education Authority in respect of student accommodation in September 2015 to be implemented by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26216/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has ever issued guidelines to schools on uniform policy and specifically on the provision of generic school uniforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26217/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (16 Sep 2016)

Carol Nolan: 512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has ever issued guidelines to schools on the issue of voluntary contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26218/16]