Written answers
Thursday, 2 July 2009
- Department of Education and Science
- School Curriculum
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the fact that more than 50% of second level schools could be forced to reduce subject choice for senior cycle students...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new school for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps he is taking to support disadvantaged children in the classroom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26458/09]
- School Planning
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 491 of 23 June 2009, when the City and County Manager Association was asked for a response to the...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has completed an audit of the assets held by the 18 religious teaching orders covered under the 2002 indemnity deal; if he will...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will alter the residency requirement which often precludes applicants from availing of the higher education grant schemes run by...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which he has had discussions with the various school authorities here in the matter of reductions in teacher numbers and...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will adopt the Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009, a Private Members Bill proposed by the Labour Party; and if he will make a...
- Institutional Child Abuse
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the matters discussed at his meeting on 3 June 2009, with eight groups representing victims of child abuse in institutions run by...
- Third Level Fees
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has finalised his proposals on the reintroduction of third level fees; if he has brought a memorandum to Government on the...
- School Patronage
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he is preparing to submit a report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on 31 July 2009 in relation to the role of religion...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he expects to have completed drafting a Bill to ensure that the two community national schools in County Dublin can operate under...
- Suíomhanna Scoile
Question 27: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta cad é an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le scoil úr a chur ar fáil (sonraí tugtha), an bhfuil suíomh ar fáil, an bhfuil an...
- Skills Strategy
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the report of the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs regarding the level of achievement in maths amongst students here;...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on whether his response to schools who have appealed his decision to abolish more than 100 special needs classes has been...
- Asylum Support Services (1 comment)
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the position paper issued in June by the Refugee Information Service on the challenges and obstacles facing refugees,...
- Whole School Evaluations
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has held discussions with the patron of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 in view of the whole school evaluation report...
- Departmental Reviews
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the reconfiguration of the school catchment boundaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Recognition
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for his refusal to recognise Educate Together secondary schools in areas such as Lucan, County Dublin in which there is...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of mainstream schools currently equipped with special units to cater for children with autism or other special needs; the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 24 June 2009, his policy regarding band rating criteria; and if he will make a statement...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 278 of 16 June 2009 and 650 of 9 June 2009, if a person (details supplied) has completed the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Employment Support Services
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will report on the progress made to date by the Mid-West Regional Jobs Task Force in securing new...
- Export Credit Insurance
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 9 June 2009, when she expects the due diligence report on the...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in issuing repayment of VAT to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny which was submitted in October 2008. [26865/09]
- Taxation Legislation
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance the Bills dealing with taxation over the past 20 years which were first introduced in Seanad Éireann before coming to Dáil Éireann. [26900/09]
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Service Staff
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is possible in the first instance for schools within a community that do not have sufficient numbers for a stand-alone therapist to...
- Health Services
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if school medical examinations have been carried out at all schools here; if there has been the necessary follow up on such examinations;...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review a decision relating to an application for mobility allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she...
- Hospital Charges
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a refund of money in respect of a bill for respite care will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
- Infectious Diseases (1 comment)
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the possibility of making Lyme disease notifiable to health authorities; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Dáil na nÓg
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action taken (details supplied) following the deliberations of Dáil Na nÓg 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Medical Cards
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 23 June 2009, if she will define the term financially independent of their parents; and the...
- Health Service Expenditure
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money spent by the Health Service Executive in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 on services (details supplied); and if she will...
- Health Service Staff
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that, despite assurances given, there is a lack of audiological provision here, in particular in Galway; if, in...
- Community Pharmacy Services
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that members of an association (details supplied) have given notice of the withdrawal of...
- Medical Cards
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [26908/09]
- Health Service Staff
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the policy decision that has led to a cap on recruitment within the Health Service Executive as well as a cap on hours provided; if...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a cost benefit analysis has been carried out on the new National Paediatric Children's Hospital at the Mater Hospital site, Dublin, in...
- Health Service Executive Expenditure
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that the National Treasury Management Agency said that some €20 million could be saved each year through...
- Health Services
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the roll out of sexual assault treatment units on a regional basis; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 17 February 2009, the position regarding the construction of this project. [26945/09]
- Hospital Staff
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to resolve the industrial dispute at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway; and if she will make a...
- Child Care Services
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if approval will be granted for an application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if she will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which it is intended to continue to provide financial support and assistance to ensure the continued operation of the full...
- Nursing Home Costs
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the weekly cost of nursing homes in Dublin as compared to other parts of Ireland for fee paying patients; the reason the difference in...
- Mental Health Services
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which it is intended to offer psychiatric assessment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Medical Cards
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Reform
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to her statement (details supplied), the way savings of between €4 million and €7 million could be made on blood products;...
- Health Service Reports
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive arthritis and allied conditions report completed in 2008 has not been published; and if she will...
- Department of Transport
- Regional Airports
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide funding to an organisation (details supplied) in County Mayo. [26850/09]
- Human Rights Issues
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will support a matter (details supplied). [26869/09]
- Fisheries Protection
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of cameras that will be installed at fishing ports nationally; the ports that will be targeted for camera installation; the cost...
- Road Safety
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Transport if he proposes to amend the Road Safety Authority Act 2006 and specifically the (Conferral of Functions) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 477 of 2006) in order...
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a report from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission regarding its investigation into the circumstances surrounding the...
- Driving Tests
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Transport his views that the driving test here is not sufficient in preparing drivers for driving on roads; his further views on whether there is sufficient...
- Employment Rights
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) in County Waterford is unilaterally changing the terms of employment...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is proposed to provide grant aid towards the provision of closed circuit television at an estate (details supplied) in...
- Garda Stations
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the provision of a new Garda station in Athlone, County Westmeath; and if it is planned to extend the...
- Residency Permits
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a temporary facility will be provided for persons (details supplied) in view of their circumstances; and if he will make...
- Visa Applications
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for an Irish student visa in each year over the past four years; the breakdown of the countries...
- Family Law
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to review the rights of fathers in the context of family law here; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received a report from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission regarding its investigation into the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the naturalisation application of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [26901/09]
- Asylum Applications
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has contacted a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; the further options open to this person in view...
- Garda Operations
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if persons (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will be supported. [26917/09]
- Prison Staff
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in respect of employment opportunities within the Prison Service; when recruitment will next take place; the...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has made a decision in respect of correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Human Rights Issues
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 17 June 2009, the number of the 65 persons who have gone missing from either...
- Prison Building Programme
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide updated costings on Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 24 June 2008; and if he will make a statement on...
- Prison Committals
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prisoners currently in prison for debt default; the number imprisoned annually since 2000 to date in 2009 for...
- Garda Deployment
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the promised provision of an adequate Garda water support unit in Athlone; his views on providing the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to residency or naturalisation in the case of a person (details suppled) in County Meath; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure to be followed in respect of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of refusal of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Asylum Applications
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a...
- Residency Permits
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will arrange for the reissue of the grant of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 2; and if...
- Asylum Applications
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to the application for residency or citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Residency Permits
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the matter of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a...
- Asylum Applications
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review his previous decision in the matter of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the matter of citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a...
- Garda Investigations
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to all of the women who have disappeared over the past 25 years particularly in the Leinster area;...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the budget allocated for the provision of the Government of Ireland scholarship to the MEconSc programme in European economic and public...
- Cabinet Committees
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when the Cabinet sub-committee on aspects of international human rights was established; the regularity with which it has met; the members...
- Emigrant Support Services
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding the work being carried out seeking to regularise the position of undocumented persons in the United States of...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of calls made to the dial to stop drug dealing call centre with specific reference to Athlone; the number...
- Community Development
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether an estate (details supplied) in County Westmeath complies with the necessary criteria for RAPID...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when elections to the Údarás na Gaeltachta will be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26860/09]
- Security of the Elderly
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the remaining funds for 2009 for the scheme of community support for older people; the number of applications...
- Community Development
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the level of funding and training available to residents' associations; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Security of the Elderly
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if organisations or groups from Counties Westmeath and Longford made applications for approval for funding under the...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the decision whereby persons who are working in the public service and find themselves unemployed because they...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when an appeal in respect of unemployment assistance or benefit payment will be determined in the case of a person (details...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Role
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 179 to 185, inclusive, of 25 June 2009, the number of times members of the Defence Forces provided a guard of...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Waste Management
Question 138: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to create a national waste register to log which waste services, households and businesses use; the...
- Litter Pollution
Question 139: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 29 of 24 June 2009, when the littering monitoring body in his...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 140: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the changes he has made to the processing of housing loans available through local authorities; if decisions...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 141: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of staff shed by Cork County Council between June 2007 and June 2008; the number of staff employed...
- End-of-Life Vehicles
Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in relation to the EU Directive and national statutory instruments 2006 prepared under the Waste...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the provision in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 which will allow local authority mortgage...
- Natural Heritage Areas
Question 147: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has sent back the files to the State solicitor's office on the sale of bog land; if contract of sale...
- Local Government
Question 148: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the procedure involved for a town, which has former town commissioner status, to be granted full town council...
- Electoral Areas
Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the abolition of three seat local electoral area before the next local elections; if he will...
- Planning Issues
Question 150: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if an observatory (details supplied) falls under the planning exemption guidelines; and if he will make a...
- Community Development
Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the level of funding and training available to residents associations or tenants associations and groups in...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 152: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 400 of 16 December 2008, the position regarding the rural houses; and...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 153: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the 3% annual reduction target in climate change in the Programme for Government which he...
- Planning Issues
Question 154: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will revoke the seven year time limit within which enforcement action may be taken in respect of all...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 155: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position on the regeneration plan for an estate (details supplied) in County Westmeath; if the recent...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in regard to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 16 June 2009, his statements that he will bring...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he expects to publish a value for money and policy review of phase one of the MANs programme; and if he...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Departmental Agencies
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in regard to long-term leases held by Coillte from private landowners, such leases allow for permitting of recreational...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of cameras that will be installed at fishing ports nationally; the ports that will be targeted for camera...
- Grant Payments
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the dairy hygiene grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied) under the dairy hygiene scheme; and if he will...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding approval of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the farm retirement...
- Grant Payments
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will be awarded their REP scheme due from February 2009; if he is...
- Department of Education and Science
- Traveller Education
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if visiting teachers for Travellers will continue to be direct employees of his Department; and if the VTST will retain their existing...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will confirm that he made a statement at a meeting (details supplied) to the effect that if this school pursued a public protest...
- School Accommodation
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will confirm the number of schools who have used the option to construct permanent classrooms since the introduction of the...
- School Staffing
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps he will take to bring forward procedures to help school boards of management to deal with individual teachers who are under...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason he continues to appeal a decision of the High Court, currently in proceedings before the Supreme Court, effectively...
- School Staffing
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the estimated number of retired teachers and principals who are in receipt of a pension from his Department but who are currently...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he provides grants or funding to companies or individuals providing an information and communications technology teaching service...
- School Accommodation
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No 188 of 24 June 2009, if he will explain what he means by deficit of mainstream accommodation; the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 19 February 2009, his Department's criteria used in allocating special needs hours....
- Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will revisit his decision to cut a leaving certificate vocational programme at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the redress entitlement of a child in a case where they were in an institution providing for mothers and babies, were then fostered...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps he will take to deal with the number of qualified primary teachers who are finding it impossible to obtain a teaching post,...
- School Staffing
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the teacher allocation to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3 for September 2009; if he has assessed the difficulties for the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new secondary school (details supplied) at a location in County Sligo; if his attention has...
- Departmental Funding
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the development of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if his attention has been drawn to the growth...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Science in view of the time delay that has taken place since the completion of the legislation through the Houses of the Oireachtas, if he...
- School Transport
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements that have been made in relation to the school transport system for 2009; if new contracts will be drawn up with Bus...
- School Staffing
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the situation regarding a school (details supplied) in County Galway, which is losing a teacher post and causing...
- School Transport
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide an extension to a school transport service (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on...
- Traveller Education
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will approve an additional Traveller resource teacher for a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of tutors who have been deemed not to be eligible to deliver homebased tuition from September 2009 due to the fact that...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is entitled to a mature student grant; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the provision of a new school building at schools (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [26992/09]
- School Accommodation
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the application for temporary accommodation in the case of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of construction of permanent facilities for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if same is on line to be...
- Departmental Funding
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the date he received an application for major capital funding from a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; when same is...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the current or expected position in regard to the provision of the new school and extra facilities required at Kill, County Kildare;...
- Departmental Funding
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which it is intended to continue to provide financial support and assistance to ensure the continued operation of the...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the requirements for qualification for higher education grants in the case of holders of stamp four residency status; and if he will...
- School Staffing
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the total number of schools here expected to be affected by staff reductions arising from cuts announced in Budget 2009; and if he...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the average class sizes in each primary school on a county basis here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27051/09]
- Psychological Service
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which psychological assessment is available to all schools in County Kildare; they way this compares with the rest of...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the full requirement of special needs assistants here based on reports from the various school authorities; his plans to meet these...
- School Accommodation
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his proposals to address all outstanding accommodation requirements at schools throughout the country and in County Kildare over the...
- Legislative Programme
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his proposals to ensure that his Department is capable of quickly and efficiently drafting legislation to put before the Houses of the...
