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Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: On a point of order, it is a longstanding precedent in this House that when a Minister of State reads from a script, it is provided. Can we have a copy?

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: What about St. Patrick's Day? The Government could start there.

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: What about the proposal on class sizes for under nine year olds?

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: I wish to share time with Deputy Ulick Burke. I endorse the Labour Party motion and I congratulate the party for putting it on the Order of Business. There is something entirely dysfunctional about an education system where the State defines a school as a charity, yet that is exactly what is happening. In information that I recently received from the Minister for Finance, 420 schools,...

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: They must be related.

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: The Ministers have it for two weeks.

Programmes for Government. (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10618/08]

Schools Building Projects. (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: I propose to share time with Deputy Rabbitte. I am disappointed that the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, who was in the House earlier, is not present to respond to this important matter. It is clear that the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey, has been given the graveyard shift, answering on everyone's behalf. It is a disappointment that this is a serious matter that is...

Schools Building Projects. (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: At the teachers' conference.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 383: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that children with Downs syndrome are required by her Department to have professional assessments undertaken prior to entering mainstream primary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10144/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 384: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that where a recommendation has been made by clinical psychologists for specific resource teaching for children with Downs syndrome, her Department automatically responds to this recommendation; if her attention has been drawn to the cases within her Department where such recommendations have not been...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 385: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that every child with Downs syndrome within mainstream primary school schooling has specific resource teaching hours; the number of children with Downs syndrome who are currently in a mainstream school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10146/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 414: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children with Down's syndrome who are currently in a mainstream classroom setting; her views on whether the general allocation model does not properly provide for specific help and resources to such children and that all children with Down's syndrome require one to one education for a minimum of three hours per week,...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 386: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department only provides a summer education programme, normally in July, to children with autism, but excludes other children with special needs, specifically those with Downs syndrome, ADHD or dyspraxia; if she will confirm that all special schools here have taken up the summer programme in recent years; and if she...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 387: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the training special needs assistants have in respect of the provision of ABA within the new special classes that she is establishing here; if it is specifically referred to in their contract of employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10148/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 388: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of parents her Department recently corresponded with in respect of a proposal from her Department to remove the home tuition grant while offering those parents a place for their child in the new special classes for children with autism that are being established or have been established; the number of the parents in...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 389: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of the 270 special classes for children with autism which have been sanctioned by her Department currently open; when she expects the remaining number of classes to be open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10150/08]

Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 396: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are plans to recognise the pre-school education sector as part of the wider education system which comes under the remit of her Department, in order that pre-school teachers would be paid by the Government under fair salary scales representing their qualifications and experience; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Home Tuition: Home Tuition (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 413: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason, in view of the issue of her Department underpaying the home tuition grant to parents of children taught by qualified teachers at the ELI schools in Dublin, Wicklow and Galway for a number of years and further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 27 November 2007, her Department will not go through its...