Results 19,121-19,140 of 23,978 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of employing an entry grade teacher in a primary school, a secondary school and a college of further education. [46239/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of reducing the average class size to the European average of 21 pupils. [46238/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Support Services Expenditure (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budget for the disability access route to education in each of the years 2010 to date. [46240/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of employing a physical education teacher and the guidelines her Department provides on the time to be given each week to physical education in primary schools and in secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46241/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the material change that will occur in schools as a result of the abolition of rule 68 and the reasons for abolishing the rule. [46242/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of changing the role of special needs assistants in schools to give them an educational support role, as opposed to a purely quasi-nursing and carer role in which they are allocated to specific pupils in the classroom, as was the situation that pertained prior to 2012. [46243/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Staff (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of employing 100 additional psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service. [46244/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home-School Liaison Scheme (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special schools have access to home-school liaison officers and, if not, the reason why. [46245/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why students training to be teachers can only undertake their teacher probation period in mainstream schools and not in special schools; if she is aware that teacher training colleges do not provide training modules specifically for special schools' teachers; if she is satisfied that training for teachers to work in special schools is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Agencies Funding (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budget for the National Centre for Technology in Education in each of the years 2009 to date. [46294/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of a roll-out of modern languages in the primary school curriculum pilot project. [46295/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of a roll-out of partial immersion programmes for the Irish language, where 50% of subjects are taught through Irish to 20% of primary schools, not including the Gaelscoileanna. [46296/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will designate physical education as a subject for the leaving certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46297/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (17 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of removing the moratorium on posts of responsibility for middle management posts in schools. [46298/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: School Meals Programme: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome all three groups to this afternoon's meeting. I thank them for their presentations and their time. I thank the Healthy Food for All organisation for its advocacy work across the country. I would like to make a few comments and ask a few questions. I will begin by asking the Department of Social Protection about the comments made by Ms Keenan and the Irish Primary Principals...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (16 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the A5 project and his recent engagement with his Northern Ireland counterparts in relation to it; the funding he has committed for it and the funding committed by the Northern Ireland Government; the status of the funding allocated under the St. Andrews Agreement and if it is still available; when the project will be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (16 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in a payment under the basic payment scheme 2015 to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45505/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (16 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal under the basic payment scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45617/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Expenditure (16 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allocate funding to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal under the Summer Works Scheme, when she will announce when schools will be allocated funding under this Scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45491/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (16 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific rules she was referring to in the public comments she made when committing to erasing Rule 68 regarding the place of religion in the primary school curriculum, where she stated that she was also going to eliminate any other rules that do not speak to the diverse and welcoming nature of our modern school system, or if she made...