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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: On what basis was the figure of 220 decided?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Mr. Mulkerrins mentioned that the Department was doing diligence at the moment regarding-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: -----the referral from the NCSE. What is involved in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I see.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I wish to raise a final matter regarding the NCSE. Yesterday, a report in The Irish Timesindicated that the NCSE made a further request for additional SNAs to the Department last week, which was later than usual. Was there a reason for that? Will the witnesses comment on why there was a delay this year compared with other years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review the criteria blocking young farmers who are under 40 years of age, but who have been farming for more than five years, from accessing measures under the new Common Agricultural Policy programme for young farmers, including being able to apply for the national reserve and for top-up entitlements; the reason for...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the total number of applications made under the new green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme; the number and percentage of farms with commonage lands which have submitted an application under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26103/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the projected cost of providing school transport for pupils who live in Urris in County Donegal for the new school route from Urris to Buncrana via Clonmany for the next school year, 2015-2016, is greater than the total cost of providing school transport for pupils who live in Urris on the previous school route from Urris to Carndonagh via...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Awareness (1 Jul 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to make funding available for support services in primary schools to promote children's emotional well-being, as is available for post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26499/15]
- Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: It is the Minister of State's scheme and he can change it.
- Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: The parents are issuing an invitation to the Minister of State to view the route which the Department is measuring as being the closest - the Mamore gap. If he were to come to Donegal I would be very willing to show it to him and he would not be telling me in the House that it would be unfair not to use that as a route.
- Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I can tell the Minister of State what his Department is doing. It is now saying that those students have to go to Buncrana, which is four miles longer, to get to Carndonagh community school because they cannot use that gap. This means more fuel, longer bus times and more expense. The Minister of State is saying that if those students are to go to Buncrana, the Department will have to put...
- Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Many parents cannot pay and the Minister of State is not taking into account whether they can pay. It is totally unfair. At the very minimum that fee should be waived. We should see common sense brought into play-----
- Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: -----in order that the circumstances that are particular to this area are acknowledged and the Minister of State's approach to the scheme is changed.
- Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister of State can change the scheme.
- Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to remove free school transport for students from an area (details supplied) in County Donegal to their current secondary school; and if she will ensure the free school transport scheme rules provided by her Department for Bus Éireann for implementation are changed to ensure mountain passes which are not...
- Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Will the Minister review the decision to remove free school transport from students in Urris, Clonmany, County Donegal who are attending Carndonagh community school? Will she ensure free school transport is extended to them? Will she amend the terms of the free school transport scheme to ensure mountain passes that are inaccessible for a good part of the school year are not used in...
- Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, but I must say it is exceptionally disappointing. It is disgraceful that the Department has not looked at the particular circumstances of this case and changed its approach. It is over two months since I raised this matter on the floor of the Dáil with the Minister of State. I genuinely thought it was well within the capacity of the...
- Other Questions: State Examinations (30 Jun 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for her response. I welcome the news that she has spoken to the State Examinations Commission about this matter and that it has confirmed to her that it will assess the difficulty level that students experienced in the paper, reflect that in the marking scheme, which it will adjust accordingly to ensure the bell curve, as such, is not out of sync, and that students will...