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- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: There has been.
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that backdated payments to January 1997 regarding nursing home costs, promised by the HSE, are awarded to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [21379/07]
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Question 388: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans that exist to provide alternative school premises for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 in view of their pending eviction from their current premises by summer 2008; if her Department will liaise with the school to agree a plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21433/07]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Question 389: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 will be able to move into the Grangegorman Dublin Institute of Technology site in the first wave of new buildings on this site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21434/07]
- School Placement. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the emergence in effect of segregated primary school provision for minority ethnic students in north Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21841/07]
- School Placement. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: I thank the Minister for her good wishes to me as the new Fine Gael spokesperson on education. Is the Minister seriously suggesting to the House that she takes no responsibility for what has become, in effect, a segregated model of education in north County Dublin due to the failure of her Department over a long period to put in place additional educational facilities? Does she agree that...
- School Placement. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Arising from events in Balbriggan in September, I ask the Minister to consider establishing a national forum on education to address the patronage, management and ownership of schools. Given that more than 90% of all schools are owned or controlled by the Catholic Church, does the Minister agree it would be more sensible to establish such a forum to allow the education partners to engage in...
- Departmental Staff. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Segregated education.
- School Placement. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: It is the unit.
- School Placement. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Deputy Naughten is not making the point the Minister says he is.
- School Placement. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Is the site available?
- School Funding. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools that have been allocated funding for the purpose of debt relief in each year over the past five years; the accumulated amount in each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21842/07]
- School Funding. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Is the admission by the Minister that a considerable number of schools have had to go to her Department, cap in hand, to be bailed out because of ongoing debt problems not evidence that the capitation regime is insufficient, particularly with regard to primary schools? Is she aware of a survey carried out by the Irish National Teachers Organisation which shows that as many as one third of...
- School Funding. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: This is occurring all over the country and parents are being put under pressure because the State is not doing its job in terms of giving the capitation required. Regarding band one of the delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, scheme, which relates to schools in the most disadvantaged areas, will the Minister consider giving additional support to such schools? I recently...
- Computerisation Programme. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the possibility of introducing a laptop computer to all students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21843/07]
- Computerisation Programme. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Given the chronic level of funding for technology in our schools, the fact that most schools must depend on Tesco vouchers to obtain additional PCs and that in Northern Ireland an interactive whiteboard is standard, which is not the case in this jurisdiction, will the Minister recognise that the proposal I have set out is sensible not only from a cost, but an environmental perspective and...
- State Examinations. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Is the State Examinations Commission obliged to find a place to sit the exam or is that the student's responsibility? I am aware of cases where students who want to sit the exam have been frustrated by local principals. I know of a particular case where a student took up a full-time position but now wants to do two or three subjects for her leaving certificate, has issues with dyslexia and...
- State Examinations. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: I accept that.
- State Examinations. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Can I make a helpful suggestion?
- State Examinations. (2 Oct 2007)
Brian Hayes: Would the Minister discuss the putting in place of an appeals system with the examinations commission? If a student cannot find a local school to facilitate him, there could be an appeals system within the commission which would then take responsibility for finding an appropriate place for that student to sit his examinations. There are 4,000 external students, people of all ages, and we...