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Other Questions: School Accommodation (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision on a preferred site for new school (details supplied) in County Donegal will be made; the reason for the delay in securing a site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33955/15]

Other Questions: School Accommodation (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: When will a decision on a preferred new site for a three-school college campus, Crana College, in Buncrana, County Donegal, be made? What is the reason for the delay in securing a site? Will the Minister update us on the progress in this regard?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister should try to bring everybody with her.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: Fianna Fáil has always been a proponent of trying to reform the junior certificate curriculum and make it one that better serves students' needs. Before this Minister's tenure, when the former Minister, Deputy Quinn, was in the Department, there was a report on his table on foot of widespread consultation conducted under the auspices of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: Members must see more from the Minister in the form of a plan that will get reform back on track and organising training sessions, as the Department of Education and Skills has done previously, to which teachers will not turn up is not the way to do this.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: A key part of the reason we are in the position in which we find ourselves is the approach the Government has taken. The Government has taken a bullish approach from the outset and drove on regardless of making sure it was done in partnership with those who would implement it. This is why teachers, unfortunately, still do not have faith in what, as the Minister has pointed out, their union...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her proposals for progressing with junior certificate reform following the rejection of the proposals by members of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34080/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: In light of the issue raised in my question, will the Minister update us on how she plans to proceed?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Data (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister's response shows again that this not a pilot scheme. As she noted, assurances are provided to schools engaging in the scheme that they will not lose any resource teaching hours as a result of their participation. However, the outcome of the change the Minister wishes to implement is that many schools will lose resource teaching hours. How can this be described as a pilot...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Data (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns regarding the new system of allocation of special needs assistants that is being piloted this year; her plans to address the long waiting times for special needs assessment by the National Educational Psychological Service. [34079/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Data (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: My question asks if the Minister will address concerns regarding the new system for the allocation of resource and learning support teachers which is being piloted in a number of schools this year. I also ask the Minister to outline her plans to address the long waiting times for special educational needs assessment by National Educational Psychological Service psychologists.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Data (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for her reply. There is no doubt that there are serious problems with the provision of learning support and resource hours, in particular with the distribution of the latter which are based on assessments carried by a NEPS psychologists or on private psychological assessments which parents have arranged for their children because they have grown tired and are unwilling...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when architectural tender documents will be issued for the development of new permanent buildings to replace current prefabricated units at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33956/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a recent analysis (details supplied) which provides evidence that there are severe socio-economic inequalities in access to special needs supports across schools and pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33957/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Languages Programme (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for improving foreign language education at primary and secondary level to address the deficit of foreign language skills among the population. [33958/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a review of an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34047/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Payments (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a claim for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is not being backdated to the date at which the person applied for it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34289/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will expedite a number of reports commissioned by the Office of Public Works regarding flooding in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34473/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Appeals (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal submitted to his Department by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if he will ensure that the circumstances of the appeal will be fully considered, given that the site inspection took place in November 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34477/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 435. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation to tackle sex-trafficking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34472/15]