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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Services Provision (11 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps taken to ensure that project Kelvin is marketed and developed on an all Ireland basis for the benefit of all the communities along the border. [24459/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Data (11 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of households that have registered their compliance for payment of the property tax by the extended deadline, which ended at 8pm on Wednesday, 29 May 2013. [27246/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (11 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of concessionary mainstream posts he intends to withdraw from schools in the Dublin Central constituency for the 2013/2014 academic year. [26761/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of his Department’s assessment of the suitability of the site proposed for a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow, [27002/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (11 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 28 March 2013, the reason training and supervision in ABA is optional for the teachers of children with autism and is not obligatory, as recommended in the Special Education Support Service: Information on Autism document. [26989/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (11 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the difficulties being experienced by students trying to access information on third level grants; the reason they are being re-directed from the Students Universal Support Ireland website to studentfinance.ie which has only general information and nothing about specific course applications and when will the SUSI website be fully...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (11 Jun 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will have representatives from Student Universal Support Ireland contact school guidance counsellors to discuss the 2013-2014 grant application process; the reason a guidebook that was published last year has not been re-issued; his views on whether it is acceptable that guidance counsellors who are tasked with providing advice to...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Enterprise Centres (30 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is important to stress there is no threat to the numbers because people became fearful of cuts when they heard the news that the supervisor position will not be refilled and that administration will be transferred to other CE schemes. One of the advantages of the scheme as it currently stands is that the supervisor has direct contact with host groups. I appreciate that the Department...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Enterprise Centres (30 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mayfield Community Enterprise Limited, which was established in 2001, was responsible for co-ordinating and administering community employment schemes within the Mayfield area. The Minister of State may be familiar with the local community through his party colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. This is an area of high unemployment, in which there has been much social...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (30 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 20. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cathain a bhí an cruinniú deireanach ag an gCoiste Feidhmiúcháin atá freagrach as an Straitéis Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge, cé chomh minic a tháinig siad le chéile le bliain anuas, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ag an gcoiste sin; cén teanga oibre a úsáidtear sna...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (30 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 29. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé sásta, i gcomhthéacs na Straitéise 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge, 2010-2030, struchtúr ardleibhéil a chur ar bun idir na húdaráis agus eagraíochtaí pobail na Gaeilge agus na Gaeltachta, trína bhféadfar moltaí a dhéanamh sula gcuirfear ar aghaidh chuig na...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Gaeltacht Schools: Discussion (29 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is it the policy of the Department to change the pupil-teacher ratio so we do not have to recruit more teachers for more pupils?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Gaeltacht Schools: Discussion (29 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: I presume we are only seeking an update on three recommendations that the Minister has no intention of implementing. That is not what was being proposed. What is being proposed is that the committee write in support of these recommendations and ask the Minister to implement them, rather than asking for an update on what he is not going to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Gaeltacht Schools: Discussion (29 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Deputy Ó Snodaigh will ask a few questions in Irish but I have one question in English, if that is in order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Gaeltacht Schools: Discussion (29 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: On the three recommendations that were made, I wish to touch on the third one, the establishment of special board or authority with responsibility for strategic planning and development. I would like our guests to expand on that. If this would involve the setting up of an education authority, I presume that would require legislation, and in that respect, what extra powers would be needed to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Remuneration (29 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 24. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of savings that would be made if salaries to personnel in her Department were capped at €100,000. [25727/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (29 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the remedial action that is taken when companies are found to be abusing the jobbridge scheme; and her plans to stop displacement in employment as a result of the jobbridge scheme. [25726/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (28 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the reduction in teaching allocation at a college (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will result in the loss of specialised award winning courses; if he will recognise the unique place of the college in Irish education by providing an enhanced allocation in order to allow the college to develop new programmes; the reason the students of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give consideration to amending the home tuition grant for children with Autism attending preschool when there is an option so that 20 hours of 1:1 tuition can be allocated 11.25 hours of 1:1 tuition and 13.75 hours of group tuition per week. [25642/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand on comments he made recently when speaking at Tullamore College, County Offaly, when he said that science would be compulsory if there were laboratories in each of the State's 723 post primary schools; and the measures he intends to take to address this matter. [25398/13]