Results 7,081-7,100 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined the changing of demographics in the context of the potential recategorisation of some new schools as DEIS in view of the existence of significant socio-economic disadvantage in certain new communities, particularly in the greater Dublin area. [40451/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all discretionary or ex-quota teachers to allocated schools in socio-economically disadvantaged areas will be retained. [40452/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a decrease in class sizes in senior DEIS schools such that there would be a pupil-teacher ratio of 20:1 in these schools. [40453/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Start Programme (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will put the early start preschool programme on a permanent footing; and if she will extend the early start pre-school programme to all DEIS schools. [40454/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home-School Liaison Scheme (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will liaise with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in evaluating the operation of the home school community teacher service; and if she is satisfied with the changed nature of the service such that the service may be provided by professionals other than teachers. [40455/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on restoring the grant available to some non-DEIS schools in recognition of the educational supports provided to students who have significant socio-economic disadvantage. [40456/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the effect of the allocation of 1,700 teaching professionals in budget 2015 in increasing staffing allocations for DEIS schools. [40457/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Libraries (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the introduction of a targeted library service for DEIS schools. [40458/14]

Social Clauses in Public Procurement Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly congratulate Deputy McDonald and her Sinn Féin colleagues on their introduction of the Social Clauses in Public Procurement Bill 2013. I agree strongly with its basic principle in providing specific recognition of the need to hire unemployed persons and apprentices on publicly funded contracts through the use of social clauses. This is an issue I have raised before with the...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: What about the box number?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the serious workers' rights issues raised through the use of the relevant contracts tax system in the construction sector, whereby some construction workers are effectively forced to become self-employed rather than having employee status and thereby do not have the protections of the employment law...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Education Welfare Service Provision (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 140. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the visiting teacher service for Travellers will be recommenced. [39611/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 141. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 703 of 24 June 2014, the budget allocation for placing children in private child care residential centres for 2014 and the outturn to date under this heading. [39614/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 142. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 703 of 24 June 2014, if a report on the updated position for 2013 which his predecessor undertook to supply is now to hand. [39616/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 143. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown, on a monthly basis, of the number of children placed in private child care residential centres in 2013 and to date in 2014. [39624/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 144. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form on a monthly basis, the number of children placed in child care residential centres operated directly by the Child and Family Agency in 2013 and to date in 2014. [39625/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 145. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 627 of 1 July 2014, the number of children in custody in children detention schools; the percentage of those children with assigned social workers; and the percentage of those children who have been subject of a recent care order. [39626/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 165. To ask the Minister for Health if a discretionary medical card will be returned in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 under the guidelines announced in May 2014 following the card having been withdrawn in March 2012 [39594/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases Epidemic (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has taken and will be taking to prevent an outbreak of Ebola in Ireland; his views that this very serious contagious disease is being given the priority it deserves; and the assistance he and the Government are providing to the Governments of West Africa to contain and eliminate the disease [39630/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding Ireland’s diplomatic relationship with Palestine; and his plans to follow the example of Sweden by granting full diplomatic recognition to Palestine. [39627/14]