Results 881-900 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: The schools were selected by a working group made up of representatives from: the Department of Education and Skills; the Department of Communications Energy and Natural Resources; the National centre for Technology in Education; and HEAnet. A two stage selection process was used for the selection of schools: Stage 1: Examined all schools against sub criteria that were independent of the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: The statutory framework for the maintenance grants scheme, as set out in the Local Authorities (Higher Education Grants) Acts, 1968 to 1992, provides for means-tested higher education grants in order to assist students to attend full-time third level education. The student grant schemes include provision for grants to eligible students pursuing certain full-time undergraduate courses of at...
- Written Answers — Home Tuition Grant: Home Tuition Grant (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: The application referred to by the Deputy is currently being considered by my Department and a decision will issue to the family in question shortly.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: The project to which the Deputy refers was announced earlier this year for appointment of a design team. My Department has recently forwarded a Schedule of Accommodation to the school and will shortly be in contact with the school regarding the process for the Appointment of Design Team.
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) through its network of Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) has carried out a review of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) allocations. The NCSE has published its report on the Review of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) Allocation to Schools April 2009 â March 2010 on its website www.ncse.ie. The NCSE has since carried out a number of...
- Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: I acknowledge that the cost of attending higher education is an important factor for a great number of students and their families. However the Deputy will appreciate that some 43% of all undergraduate students received financial support under my Department's student grant schemes in the 2009/2010 academic year and this number is likely to rise further this year. Under the student grant...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: I refer the Deputy to the attached most recent quarterly return made by my Department in accordance with a Government Decision of May 2009, regarding prompt payment of invoices by Government Departments. These quarterly returns are also posted on the website of my Department. At any given point in time there will be a small number of invoices in respect of which clarification or further...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: In September 2010 there were nineteen retired post primary teachers employed on a part-time contractual basis in the voluntary secondary and community /comprehensive sectors. During that month claims were submitted for the payment of 74 retired teachers for work undertaken in a substitute capacity. This represented about 1.75% of the teachers engaged in substitute work for whom the...
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: The information sought will be compiled and forwarded to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: Decision on the need or cost of security for schools is a matter for each individual Board of Management. The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available, and given that there are over 4,000 first and second level schools, would involve an inordinate amount of administrative time to compile.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: The total capital allocation for the Department of Education and Skills in 2010 is just over â¬785m including a â¬79m carryover from 2009. Actual capital expenditure at the end of October amounted to â¬449.295m. Details of the capital allocation and expenditure to end October 2010 in respect of each sector are as follows: SECTORS Allocation Expenditure Administrative Budget â¬3.1m...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: My Department incurs expenditure on public advertisements in connection with a wide range of educational programmes and schemes including, staff appointments in the education sector; invitations to attend local hearings; invitations to forward submissions on education-related schemes/projects; invitations to tender for school building projects. In accordance with a Government decision in...
- Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: My Department provides for a scheme of grants towards the purchase of equipment for the use of students in second-level schools who have been diagnosed as having serious physical and/or communicative disabilities which make ordinary communication through speech and/or writing impossible for them. The purpose of the grant-aid is to provide such students with equipment of direct educational...
- Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: First, as all Members know full well, it is not my job or that of the Government to adjudicate on Standing Orders or on the independent decision-making of the Ceann Comhairle's office.
- Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: Second,-----
- Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: Sorry, I am entitled to say what I must say. Second, the logic-----
- Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: The logic of Deputy Gilmore's argument is that if issues arise now in the context of health when Deputy Howlin was Minister or in finance when Deputy Quinn was there,-----
- Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: -----or Deputy Noonan, then they would be accountable,-----
- Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: -----but the position is that the matter is one for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
- Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Coughlan: However, as somebody who is-----