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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (19 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Tánaiste. I find some of the language used by the Tánaiste in his speech today a little difficult to understand and I do not pretend to know the ins and outs of everything. The Tánaiste made reference to the retention of confidence, which centred around the measures agreed in June. Over the summer there was much positivity regarding our meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine and Israel: Discussion with EAPPI (19 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: The delegation mentioned EU property. A Liberal Democrats Member of Parliament put a question to the Commission and it was said in response that from May 2001 to October 2011, €30 million worth of infrastructure invested in by the European Union was destroyed. It has been said that €50 million worth of infrastructure has been destroyed. It seems that much of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine and Israel: Discussion with EAPPI (19 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: I welcome our guests. They made a couple of points during their presentations, one of which is that their job relates to offering support in respect of acts of non-violent resistance. In that regard, I am conscious of the events involving Rachel Corrie. Ms Corrie, an innocent woman involved in a non-violent action, was wearing a high-visibility vest when she was run over by an IDF vehicle....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason that, out of a total Department spend of €6million in respect of traveller specific accommodation, Dublin City was awarded €50,000 [39075/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify, if a teacher is not registered with the Teaching Council then under existing legislation, if his Department is obliged to pay for their services from September onwards. [38222/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers accessing each of the common basic pay scales at primary and post primary level. [38440/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any Department here conducted a cost benefit analysis that would accrue from increasing teaching hours from the current ceiling of 22 hours per week; and the implications this would have for maintaining and lowering pupil ratios in primary and post primary schools. [38441/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired teachers who are to be redeployed from September, 2012 onwards, on a temporary capacity, to cover teachers on maternity or sick leave. [38463/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Christian Brothers are planning to donate land they own at Summerhill in Nenagh, County Tipperary, as part of an arrangement with his Department to compensate the survivors of residential abuse. [38769/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for his Department to help facilitate a partnership arrangement between the Christian Brothers and Nenagh Town Council in order that land owned by the former at Summerhill Nenagh, County Tipperary, may be developed to provide essential amenities which would include three GAA pitches and a running track for public use. [38770/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Subsidised Private Schools (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the annual amount paid in State subsidises to minority faith based fee-paying schools here, on a school by school basis. [38895/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the annual wage scale paid to senior FÁS staff earning in excess of €80,000 per annum based on the one to six grading system. [38900/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (18 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the way in which the Health Service Executive cutbacks will impact on ambulance stations in Tallaght, Swords and Maynooth; and the way changes to the new roster to be introduced in September, including the number of ambulances on call, compare with the service available in September 2011. [38169/12]

Written Answers — Oideachas Tríú Leibhéal: Oideachas Tríú Leibhéal (18 Jul 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 12: To ask the Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén maoiniú atá curtha ar fáil le haghaidh oideachais tríú leibhéal sa Ghaeltacht ag Roinn na Gaeltachta sna cúig bliana seo a chuaigh thart; cé mhéid a bheidh le fáil an bhliain seo chugainn [35031/12]

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (18 Jul 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to publish data relating to public spending which would indicate the contribution made by the Arts to combatting poverty and exclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35431/12]

Written Answers — Fee Paying Schools: Fee Paying Schools (18 Jul 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on State subsidies to private fee paying schools in 2011/2012; the projected amount that will be paid to private fee paying school for the 2012/2013 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35850/12]

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jul 2012)

Seán Crowe: To put this debate in context, it is useful to consider some statistics. We know, for example, that the income of the poorest households in the State fell by more than 18% in a single year, while that of the richest increased by 4%. We also know that one quarter of credit card holders rely on those cards to make ends meet each month. Some 40% of people have borrowed to pay for household...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jul 2012)

Seán Crowe: No, we have not.

Special Educational Needs (18 Jul 2012)

Seán Crowe: On 27 June this year Scoil Mochua, a special school on the Old Nangor Road in Clondalkin, Dublin 22, was informed by its special educational needs organiser that it would lose two teaching staff in the upcoming school year. This is one example but it could apply to other special schools throughout the country, including St. Joseph's Special School in my constituency. Scoil Mochua was...

Special Educational Needs (18 Jul 2012)

Seán Crowe: I asked that the Minister look at the idea of a review in this area. The Minister stated that the allocation for schools like this will increase, but this particular school tells me that on 27 June it was told it was losing two staff and, subsequently, it has been informed that it will lose one. I am not sure whether that one is because the numbers are not growing in the school. That is a...