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Educational Projects (1 May 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of funding allocated to the blue star programme and from which Department funding has been allocated. [10021/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that community welfare officers have been refusing to award fathers, who have shared custody of their children, rent supplement for anything more than a one bedroom flat which effectively denies them their right to family life; and is she will issue a memo to community welfare officers directing them to award rent...

Social Welfare Code (25 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her response to the all-party Oireachtas Committee report on the single working age payment recommendation that she not proceed with the proposal for a single working age payment at this time. [20601/12]

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 266: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will grant full recognition to a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20117/12]

Semi-State Bodies (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, he intends to review the payments and allowances paid to Stage agency chief executive officers; the changes, if any, he plans to make to these payments and allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20297/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to criticism relating to a new requirement for students applying under the disability access route to education to produce extensive reports based on formal psychological tests that are expensive and difficult to obtain because private educational psychologists were booked out for such assessments up to the CAO cut...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the recent ASTI survey that shows an estimated 67% of schools will be forced to drop at least one subject at leaving certificate level because of the changes announced Budget 2012; and if he intends to make any adjustments in policy in view of the potential impact these findings will have on the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24 has been withdrawn from the current school construction programme. [19496/12]

Educational Disadvantage (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of his stated support of children from disadvantaged backgrounds having access to a full and inclusive education, if he will agree to implement a review of schools in the primary and post primary sector that are currently servicing areas of high disadvantage and which fit all of the criteria of DEIS but are doubly being...

Educational Disadvantage (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: The question is in two parts. The reason I tabled the question on the review of DEIS schools is that we previously had a conversation in the House on this matter. It is not fair that many schools fit the criteria for the DEIS programme, but, unfortunately, because the scheme is not open to them, they are doubly penalised in respect of the changes introduced in the budget. It is wrong and...

Educational Disadvantage (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Did the Minister say he would concentrate on urban schools rather than rural schools?

Educational Disadvantage (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Will DEIS urban schools lose concessionary teaching posts also?

Educational Disadvantage (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: I got the impression from the Minister that he would examine schools outside the DEIS scheme. Is he now saying there is no intention to review this issue? Many of the schools outside the DEIS system fit all the criteria for the DEIS programme. At the time I said it was about pulling down barriers, not putting them up. Unfortunately, some schools are being kept outside the system. We must...

Educational Disadvantage (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: One cannot fix a problem until one knows its extent. The message I am getting from many schools is that the cuts are doubly unfair, given that they are outside the DEIS club. I thought the matter of legacy posts had been resolved following the climbdown or review that was promised. All of us in the House accept that the DEIS programme is working. Why wreck a system when that is the case...

Special Educational Needs (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: I questioned the Minister before on this issue and will put down a parliamentary question if he does not have the information today. I was looking for a breakdown by county of where SNAs were lost. We all asked questions in regard to children who lost SNAs. Will the Minister carry out a review - that awful word again - at the end of the year? Will he give an overview of the impact the cap...

Irish Language (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: The Department of Education and Skills is central to the implementation of the 20-year strategy. The Minister refers in his reply to teachers who are proficient in the language having an essential role in regard to the creation of the new generation of Irish language speakers in the future. Why, then, has the funding for trainee teachers to attend Irish language classes in Gaeltacht areas...

Irish Language (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Up to now, Gaeltacht schools had a preferential pupil-teacher ratio in recognition of the challenges of teaching through the medium of Irish. There was also a recognition of the lack of teaching resources available and the decline of the language. This is why the strategy was set up. We have cut back the preferential pupil-teacher ratios. On the one hand we are pushing forward a strategy...

University Status (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: The dead hand, if it comes, will not come from the Minister or the Minister of State, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, on this matter. One would have assumed there would be greater support from the European Union for cross-Border initiatives of this type.

Third Level Staff (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: Will the Minister review the funding to the universities in question? That might be one way of encouraging action in this area. What is particularly galling for people who are facing cuts across the board is the perks to which many of these people are entitled, as well as the recent news of the apparent abuse of their positions by way of the upgrading of offices, procurement of art and so...

Third Level Staff (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Crowe: When was the last time we saw a cake sale in a university?