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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: First, I want to acknowledge how willing the Minister of State always is to listen to and engage with Members when they raise individual constituency issues, and that has definitely been my experience. I thank him for that. I have spoken to the Minister of State on an individual constituency issue so I will not deal with the ins and outs of it, although I may have to follow up with him...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: The second issue is in regard to schools that have temporary rather than permanent homes. There is a school in my constituency which has had a site identified in Ballinteer but there have been planning issues in regard to getting a permanent home, so the school has been temporarily housed in Churchtown. The students have been in Ballinteer and it has been a Ballinteer school for six years,...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: There is a planning issue in Ballinteer. The school has been moved as the site could not hold it any longer, given the number of students. They are being temporarily housed in a school that had been closed down.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: Yes.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: On a somewhat related point in regard to the minor works grant allocation, which I was delighted to see the Minister of State announce today, I notice that in 2015 it was announced on 5 November, last year it was announced on 17 November, this year it has been announced in December and it is indicated to be announced next in January 2019. This is very frustrating for schools and many schools...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: On the curlew and the yellowhammer, which were mentioned before, some speakers have mentioned existing threats to these birds which are at risk of global extinction. As I am not an expert in this field, perhaps Mr. Copeland will confirm that March is a month of nesting, is it not? Is that when they establish territories and so on? Will Mr. Copeland confirm whether this Bill will decimate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: I am from the stony grey soil of Monaghan. I was born and bred in rural Ireland.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Expenditure (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's expenditure in the adult education sector over the past five years; the projected additional funding to be provided to the adult education sector in 2018; the investment in each adult education centre in County Wicklow over the past five years; and the projected additional funding for each centre for 2018, in tabular form; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: 455. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to secure the provision of a school warden for a school (details supplied) for the safety of schoolchildren crossing the Green Luas line at Windy Arbour Luas station in view of the fact that the Luas track is not within the remit of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: 527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount his Department has spent and the number of additional housing units delivered over the past 18 months in each category (details supplied), in tabular form. [51972/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to tackle the lack of public transport options for school students in the Clonskeagh and Goatstown area of Dublin, particularly schools (details supplied) with regard to the pressure put on public transport services by nearby University College Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has assessed the need for an autism spectrum disorder specific special school in the Dublin 15 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50752/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in receipt of the home tuition grant in the Dublin 15 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50753/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied); if it is to be transferred to the responsibility of the City of Dublin Education Training Board; if so, when this will occur; if educational courses for persons with either physical or intellectual disabilities will be provided there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50754/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress towards establishing community policing teams in each division as referenced in the Garda modernisation and renewal programme 2016 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50747/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Information and Communications Technology (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the status of the project to enhance network access to rural Garda stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the status of on the Garda mobility strategy as referenced in the Garda modernisation and renewal programme 2016 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Administration (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 374. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status and timeframe of the implementation of the recommendations outlined in the independent review of the aquaculture licence process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50862/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Administration (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department is implementing recommendations 8.3(1), 8.3(2), 8.3(3) and 8.3(4) of the review of the aquaculture licence process on public notice; if they are not being progressed, the reason therefor; when they will be progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50863/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Impact Statements (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of environmental impact assessments, EIAs, he has commissioned for aquaculture licences in 2014, 2015 and 2016; the water bodies to which these EIAs applied; if this information publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50864/17]