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Other Questions: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I know the Minister plans to announce this next week.

Other Questions: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: In the meantime, I ask him to revisit it and take into consideration the severe impact this will have on many farms in County Donegal and many other parts of the country.

Other Questions: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: A week's notice is not much notice.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 12. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if tranche two of the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme will contain the same measures as tranche one; if the low input permanent pasture area remains at 10 ha; if planting new hedgerows will continue to be an option; if not, the reasons for the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34035/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dermatology patients in County Donegal; the number of these under the care of a consultant from Altnagelvin Area Hospital; Sligo General Hospital; the current waiting time to see a dermatologist in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34888/15]

Other Questions: School Patronage (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: "Disappointing" is a fair verdict on the progress. However, it is similar to the Government's approach to junior certificate reform and other key reform measures which the Government wanted to achieve. Unfortunately, the way the Government has gone about its business and tried to achieve reform in the education system has been counter-productive. It has been more about headlines and trying...

Other Questions: School Patronage (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made in providing a greater choice of school patronage to parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33954/15]

Other Questions: School Patronage (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: This is to ask the Minister the progress being made in providing parents with a greater choice of school patronage. As the Minister will recall, her predecessor, Deputy Quinn, indicated in 2012 that he hoped to see 50% of primary schools change their patronage, starting in that particular year. I am seeking an update in that regard.

Other Questions: School Patronage (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: No doubt we need to encourage greater pluralism in patronage within the primary school system. If one were starting today, one would not structure it this way, with 95% of schools under church patronage. In trying to achieve progress, it is important we do it in a way that moves things forward and is constructive. Unfortunately, the Government's approach, particularly that of the former...

Other Questions: School Accommodation (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: From today, we would like to see real progress, with work completed at a preferred identified site. We want the Department to purchase such a site in order that the project can progress rather than go backwards, as we have seen, unfortunately, over the past 12 months.

Other Questions: School Accommodation (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: Of course. No site is being picked.

Other Questions: School Accommodation (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: It is going nowhere.

Other Questions: School Accommodation (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Minister of State and the Minister know, the proposed Crana College campus in Buncrana is to facilitate three schools. These include Crana College secondary school, which has more than 500 students and more than 11 prefabs onsite. It is not possible to turn these prefabs into permanent accommodation because the site does not have the capacity for further development. There is also...

Other Questions: School Accommodation (6 Oct 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: The process is no more complex than what the Minister of State and the Department are making it. In his response, the Minister of State said it is going slowly but the reason for this is how it has been handled. The Department asked Donegal Education and Training Board, ETB, to identify possible sites and recommend one. When this process concluded, the Department decided to start all over...

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...