Results 6,241-6,260 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason higher education students are ineligible for receiving maintenance grants and not afforded the same rights and privileges as students taking higher education courses in other colleges in the 26 counties. [23648/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Inspections (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budget spent on employing school inspectorates at primary and post primary level; if he will list in tabular form the number of inspectors employed by his Department on an annual basis; and if he will provide a breakdown of their salary scales. [24015/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Inspections (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of his Department's annual spend to maintain the school inspectorate system at primary and post primary level. [24016/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Academic Year (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to increasing the academic year to a third semester; and the potential savings to be accrued from implementing such a measure. [24017/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the savings that would be made if there was an annual salary cap of €100,000 applied to the wages of all teaching staff, third level lecturers and all other personnel employed by his Department. [24018/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent by the State in subsidising third level fees for the 2012/13 academic year. [24019/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Energy Schemes (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to fully implement the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan; and the estimated savings should these measures be applied to all school buildings. [24020/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of personnel working within his Department and FÁS who received an annual take home pay based on salary and allowances that exceeded €100,000 annually in the 2012/13 academic year. [24021/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Remuneration (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular the number of third level lecturers who receive an annual take home pay based on salary and allowances that exceeded €100,000 annually in the 2011/12 academic year. [24022/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of teachers who receive an annual gross pay that exceeded €100,000 annually in the 2011/12 academic year. [24023/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the amount paid in State subsidies to fee charging schools for the 2012/13 academic year. [24024/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the amount spent by his Department to provide substitute cover for teachers assessing oral examinations in the 2011/12 academic year. [24025/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the total number of third level students for the 2012/13 academic year, to include separately the number of Irish students who paid the student contribution fee and the number of Irish students whose student contribution fee was paid by the State via a grant, EU students and international...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (21 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount paid by his Department through student grants to provide for the student contribution fee paid to third level educational institutions for the 2012/13 academic year; and if he will provide the total cost to his Department for subsidising in full third level fees for the 2012/13 academic year including student grants to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent statements from the Russia and American Governments in which they agreed to work together to end the Syrian conflict and host an international conference on the issue in search of peace; and his views on whether this is a positive step. [23226/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Treatment of Prisoners (16 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment’s (CPT) report into prison conditions between 31 May to 13 June 2011 in Spain, which was released on 30 April 2013; which found that some Basque political prisoners were subject...

Good Friday Agreement: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: The signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 marked an unprecedented historical breakthrough that has provided the platform upon which the last 15 years of political stability and relative peace has been built. The Agreement itself was recognition by all sides that the policy of partition had failed. Decades of discrimination, oppression and the abuse of power by some within the Six...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (15 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide specific details of the total amount of money spent to date on development of the National Sports Campus; the way the funds were spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22852/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (15 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand access to the rail network across the State; and his views on recent EU statements which indicate a move towards increased privatisation of rail networks which would only make the State's limited service worse. [22905/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (14 May 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 96. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the roll out of the promised 20 primary care centres at different locations across the State; the number and details of the additional primary care centres that are being provided by direct capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22557/13]