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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will visit a school (details supplied) in County Kerry to see the geographic isolation of the school first hand and the reasons it should have a more favourable threshold for mainstream teacher allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40588/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for funding from a school (details supplied) in County Kerry for improved and safer drop off and collection facilities remains active; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40589/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include severe geographic isolation and impossibility of amalgamation with another school because of distance as grounds for appealing a mainstream teacher allocation for two, three and four-teacher schools; the reason island schools may avail of favourable thresholds but schools that may be more isolated in terms of travel time on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual savings to the State that have been made before and after the payment of income tax, universal social charge and PRSI as a result of budget 2012 changes to the thresholds in small schools for mainstream teacher allocation; if she will provide a breakdown of the number of posts lost per county per annum as a result of the increases;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to her Department to ease threshold levels for mainstream teacher allocation for small schools, providing the costs per unit reduction in tabular form for two, three and four-teacher schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40593/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching posts that have been lost in Gaeltacht schools because of her Department’s decision to increase threshold levels for mainstream teacher allocation for small schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40594/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching posts that have been lost in Gaeltacht schools that previously had a four-teacher threshold of 76 but now have a threshold of 86 because of her Department’s decision to increase threshold levels for mainstream teacher allocation for small schools; her views on the additional pressures facing teachers in Gaeltacht...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on removing a teacher from a small school from November to June because of a decline in pupil numbers when the school will be in a position to regain the teacher the following September (details supplied); her views that this upheaval would be best avoided by allowing teachers in such cases to remain in situ; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has read the value for money report on two teacher schools, which was commissioned by the previous Government; her views on the findings of the report; her views that the methodology was sound or flawed; her views that the report is now obsolete, in view of the fact that it was commissioned so long ago; the number of copies of the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 206. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will release the guidance circular to local authorities to provide clarification in relation to water services infrastructure issues and the taking in charge of housing estates arising from the establishment of Irish Water; if it will be before year end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40659/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has engaged with the local authority and other relevant players regarding the Shannon LNG project; if his attention has been drawn to its importance and potential; his plans for this project from now until spring of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40599/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he envisages the inclusion of the N21 Ballyvourney to Macroom road improvement scheme in the upcoming detailed capital review, possibly as a PPP bundled with the Dunkettle interchange; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40578/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of State aid being provided to Kerry airport per annum since 2007, with a breakdown of categories, including the public service obligation flight subsidy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40579/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wild Atlantic Way Project (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the film and television producers that have been invited by the State tourism agencies to film the Wild Atlantic Way; his views that this will be a positive way of marketing the new driving route both at home and abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40584/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wild Atlantic Way Project (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will examine ways of financing unfinished projects (details supplied) in tourism towns along the Wild Atlantic Way that are completely choked with traffic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40597/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wild Atlantic Way Project (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if 2015 roads funding allocations to local authorities will make provision for the additional pressures on roads along the Wild Atlantic Way; if he will top up the allocations to these counties to ensure that this great tourism development may continue to grow in popularity safely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40598/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (22 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 234. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has sought assistance from the EU to help address the problem of farmers being at a loss because of lands being sterilised because of the hen harrier; if she will examine all avenues to sort out this damaging restriction for landowners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40577/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if recipients of part-time jobseeker's benefit will receive the 25% Christmas bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40101/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if recipients of back to education allowance will receive the 25% Christmas bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40104/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if recipients of family income supplement will receive the 25% Christmas bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40160/14]