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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pupil teacher ratio in two, three and four-teacher schools will be reduced prior to the commencement of the new school year in September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3487/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I ask the Minister for Education and Skills about the pupil-teacher ratio, especially in schools with two, three and four teachers. The numbers in three-teacher schools has increased over recent years from 48 to 56. Is there a plan in the next school year to change it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This is unacceptable. Thankfully, we are supposed to have turned the corner. The most important issue for any country is to start with the basics - namely, with education. We are all aware of the cuts that affected all schools throughout the country during the recession. We must get our priorities right and decide where are we going. Schools, especially the smaller ones, throughout the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand that more children are starting in school and that there is more pressure on schools. We welcome the announcements regarding schools that are being built. That is not a problem. I have looked around the country, and there is a certain degree of waste here and there in all Departments. We put prefabs in place when we should have looked at the bigger picture. I urge the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has negotiated a summer works grant scheme for which schools may apply; the size of the budget available for the scheme; when applications will be accepted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3486/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Has the Minister negotiated a summer works grant scheme for which schools may apply? What is the size of the budget available? When will applications be accepted?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adequate funding will be provided to maximise the potential of the apprenticeship training centre in Mount Lucas, County Westmeath; the rent that is being paid to Bord na Móna for the property; the duration of the lease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3341/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will restore the capitation grant for primary schools to its previous level to help the survival of these schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3342/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on having transition year used for a series of pre/mini apprenticeship courses allowing students to better explore their prospective further education choices before embarking on the course proper, thereby reducing the drop out rate and expenditure on uncompleted courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3339/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when building works on schools (details supplied) in counties Leitrim and Roscommon will commence; when both new schools are scheduled for completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3340/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 304. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 14 January 2015, the reasons specific to her Department the workforce de-layering has not yet been achieved within her Department, as it has in the Health Service Executive in line with section 3.11, workforce restructuring, of the Haddington Road agreement and section 4.2.1 - iii, develop options...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 374. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a file (details supplied) sent to him in June 2014 regarding the death of a person in Castlebar hospital on 15 February 2013; if he will refer this matter to the Health Information and Quality Authority and apologise to the person's family for the substandard care the person received between his admission on 7 February 2013 and his death in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will permit students to go directly into apprenticeships after their junior cycle exams where such students, though gifted in certain fields may be uninterested in pursuing further academic studies at that point; if she will leave open the option of their returning to sit the leaving certificate should they later change their minds; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions being taken to resolve the junior cycle dispute with teachers; if a resolution is imminent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3381/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason, when completing the primary online database forms, parents are being asked for their children's PPSN numbers and religion; the repercussions for pupils, parents and schools in circumstances where parents decline to hand over this sensitive information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3758/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation Appeals (27 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 620. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all appeals conducted by the Designated Areas Appeals Advisory Board in 2013 and 2014 on objections to the designation of sites to include; the location of each designated site regarding which an appeal was conducted; the outcome of each appeal; if an oral hearing formed part of the appeal; and if she...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Deputy's party did not do a good job.

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (21 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, the State has many questions to answer in this regard. What has gone on down through the years is horrendous and I welcome the survivors who are present in the Gallery today. In the Magdalen laundries and the mother and baby homes, people suffered. This was in an Ireland where one could nearly say a blanket was put over matters, there was quietness and nobody talked about the wrongs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Fuel Fraud: (Resumed) Consumers Association of Ireland and Insurance Ireland (21 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. In terms of insurance, if they want paperwork to verify that people who have comprehensive insurance have been sneakily done out of this money because of the small print, I will give it to them in a few minutes. I have dealt with people with comprehensive insurance who thought they were covered for everything but who today are left with bills...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Fuel Fraud: (Resumed) Consumers Association of Ireland and Insurance Ireland (21 Jan 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.