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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that parents and pupils are central to any decision to amalgamate four schools (details supplied) in Dublin 10 into two schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48938/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the amalgamation of four schools (details supplied) in Dublin 10 into two schools does not lead to overcrowding, increased class sizes or loss of teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48939/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Remit (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that construction, warehousing and other other courses being offered to jobseekers in future have a safe pass and manual handling certification included in view of the fact that SOLAS and education and training boards are responsible for former FÁS courses and training facilities. [49376/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Training Programmes Provision (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the courses in ECDL, manual handling, first aid, driving and safe pass that were offered free to social welfare recipients in the Dublin 8, 10 and 12 areas in the past year. [49377/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 303. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who fail to complete JobBridge internships; the number who cease an internship to take up employment; the number who leave for other reasons. [48927/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 304. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of companies or employers that have been blacklisted from the jobBridge scheme. [48928/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 305. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of occasions on which the whistleblowing feature of the JobBridge scheme has been invoked; the number of complaints that have been made to the national call centre alleging breaches or abuses of the JobBridge programme; the number of these complaints that relate to displacement, poor quality internships or other breaches of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of reports that her Department have commissioned Indecon to undertake and the cost of same. [49565/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the delays in implementing decision of the Social Welfare Appeals Office; if she will provide figures including the average time that persons have had to wait to receive their payments including arrears in October 2011, October 2012 and October 2013 following a successful appeal; if she will confirm if the waiting time differs by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if time spent on JobBridge goes towards the calculation of a person qualifying for JobsPlus. [49574/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 502. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will introduce an appeals system for refusals in naturalisation cases; the reasons such a process does not exist at present in view of the financial outlay by applicants for citizenship. [48800/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 653. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include the genetic disorder Long QT syndrome on the list of qualifying ailments for qualification for a long-term illness medical card; and if not, the reason for same in view of the circumstances of the condition and the potential medical costs involved. [48988/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 676. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 17 October if the Drugs Advisory Group has met since his response or if a meeting has been scheduled. [49261/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Status (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in announcing the design team for the new national paediatric hospital. [49368/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to having the proposed primary care centre for Drimnagh located not at Curlew Road but at the newly purchased Davitt Road site. [49369/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 690. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that a decision has been taken to build a national paediatric hospital in St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8, if it is cost effective to continue to build new facilities in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, in view of the fact that the site is not owned by the State and that no future use has been decided for it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (13 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 is not eligible to receive a medical card [48396/13]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is Groundhog Day again. I heard all this last year as well.

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The proposal to amalgamate came as a shock to the parents, as there was no preparation done by the patron in that respect. A survey was carried out but I do not think that anybody expected, as a result of a demand for co-education, that there would be an amalgamation and the closure of one of the schools. I am in favour of co-education in the school complex, as are the parents, but I do not...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the opportunity to continue the discussion on this Bill. In the short time I had on Thursday last, I noted that the budget is in two parts. There are two announcements on the day totalling an hour and a half, with the two Ministers explaining their different elements of the budget. We hear all that debate on the day in question, including the financial motions, and we have several...