Written answers

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Department of Education and Skills

 
  • Educational Disadvantage
    Question 18: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional staff that have been allocated for Traveller pupils under DEIS for the 2011/2012 school year; and the number of...
  • School Management
    Question 19: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the powers of a school patron to authorise the dismissal of a teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Training and Work Experience Programmes
    Question 20: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide 30,000 additional training places across the education and training system; and the location of same. [9837/11]
  • School Accommodation
    Question 21: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to phase out the inefficient renting of school prefabs; the number and cost of prefab rental contracts to which the State is...
  • School Patronage
    Question 22: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has consulted or commissioned any research concerning the educational outcomes of different forms of patronage for primary...
  • Schools Building Projects
    Question 23: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to prioritise school building projects; the number of school building projects that will be started during each of the next...
  • Higher Education Sector
    Question 24: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to explore the establishment of a multi-campus technical university in the south east. [9856/11]
  • Adult Literacy
    Question 25: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adult literacy programmes are restricted by staff embargos and funding restrictions from answering the mushrooming demand for their...
  • Schools Building Projects
    Question 26: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will devolve an annual capital budget to schools this year to allow schools to plan for capital projects. [9849/11]
  • Psychological Service
    Question 27: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reverse the cut to the number of psychologists in the National Education Psychological Service in budget 2011. [9853/11]
  • Higher Education Grants
    Question 28: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to develop initiatives to increase access to further higher level education for the unemployed; and if he will make a...
  • Third Level Remuneration
    Question 29: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to ensure that unauthorised allowances are not paid to senior staff of third level institutions in the future....
  • Colleges Recognition
    Question 31: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procurement procedures followed in the granting of ministerial approval to a college (details supplied) to operate in the field of...
  • Bullying in Schools
    Question 32: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that all schools develop anti-bullying policies and strategies to combat homophobic bullying in their schools. [9854/11]
  • Special Educational Needs
    Question 33: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Questions No. 207 of 24 March 2010, Nos. 640 and 641 of 2 February 2010 and No. 1123 of 19 January 2010, the current status...
  • FÁS Training Programmes
    Question 35: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the South Dublin County Council scheme that allows persons to complete apprenticeships; and his plans...
  • National Literacy Strategy
    Question 36: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he will publish a national literacy strategy for children and young persons. [9846/11]
  • Further Education
    Question 37: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanisms which will be in place to ensure the co-ordination of further education services following the completion of the...
  • Schools Building Projects
    Question 38: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received representations in relation to a new primary school at a location (details supplied) in County Cork; the progress...
  • Third Level Remuneration
    Question 40: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salaries of each of the heads or Provosts of third level institutions here for this coming academic year and for each of the past...
  • School Patronage
    Question 41: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he envisages the vocational education committees having a greater role in the provision of primary education; and if he supports the...
  • School Evaluations
    Question 42: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his plans to give parents access to more information regarding schools as a result of the proposed school evaluation system amounts...
  • Teacher Training
    Question 43: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he still has concerns around the fact that the five primary schools colleges are controlled by religious orders; and if he has any...
  • Early Childhood Education
    Question 44: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of funds that will be invested in a targeted early childhood education programme for disadvantaged children. [9844/11]
  • Education Schemes
    Question 45: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to help teen parents complete their second level education. [9851/11]
  • Higher Education Strategy
    Question 47: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects to begin the review of the recommendations in the Hunt report. [9883/11]
  • Educational Disadvantage
    Question 48: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he will publish the Educational Research Centre evaluation and report of the DEIS scheme; the date on which he will...
  • Special Educational Needs
    Question 49: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was ratified by Ireland in 1992, clearly states that...

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