Written answers
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Department of Education and Skills
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the bureaucratic and costly requirements imposed on schools awaiting the summer works programme; and... - Skills Development
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has identified areas in which there is employment demand but a lack of skills or training; the efforts he has made to address... - Student Support Schemes
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he has decided to implement a reduction in the mature student grant and to do so retrospectively; his views on whether this... - Special Educational Needs
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools will receive allocations of special needs assistant hours and their provision. [20727/11] - Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the survivors groups that have been consulted about the establishment of the statutory trust fund envisaged by the Institutional... - Higher Education Grants
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will amend the rules on third level grant applications to allow those who have been resident here for two out of the last four... - Special Educational Needs
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in respect of special needs assistant posts at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and the reason notification... - Traveller Education
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 17 May 2011, the schools across the country that received alleviation or adjustment... - School Transport
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 194 to 198, inclusive, of 17 May 2011, if he has received a detailed analysis from Bus... - Special Educational Needs
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 regarding the loss of a special needs assistant for this person.... - Redundancy Payments
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 7 June 2011, if investigations have been completed into the issues raised (details... - Vocational Education Committees
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria that was used in deciding the vocational educational committees to be amalgamated and the VECs that were to stand alone;... - School Libraries
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of his literacy initiative, he will restore the school library grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20839/11] - Special Educational Needs
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the decision to reduce the number of special needs assistants at a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [20878/11] - Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding abuse. [20882/11] - School Curriculum
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the possible utilisation of a company (details supplied) as a means of encouraging interest in local history in... - School Transport
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is willing to be flexible with parents of children who are willing to pay for school transport but who do not meet the... - Institutes of Technology
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the decision by Athlone Institute of Technology, County Westmeath, to sack a small number of lecturers following a Labour... - FÁS Training Programmes
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices who applied for the redundant apprentice placement scheme in each local authority area; the number of... - Home-School Liaison Scheme
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to maintain the home-school community liaison scheme in its current form; the changes that are envisaged for the scheme in... - Special Educational Needs
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils with Down's syndrome in the mainstream school setting that have a diagnosis of DS with a mild intellectual... - School Accommodation
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of additional accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a... - School Transport
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied). [20983/11] - School Accommodation
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision will issue on the provision of additional accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will... - Third Level Charges
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider abolishing the capitation fee for graduate-entry medical students, taking into account the fact that they are not... - Medical Certificates
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis upon which he notified schools that doctors' certificates from the North are not acceptable; the length of time certificates... - Schools Refurbishment
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a summer works scheme application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make... - Skills Development
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21091/11] - Schools Building Projects
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to ensure more open, transparent and regularly updated information to the public about applications by schools... - School Transport
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will have the results of the analysis of the changes in school transport in rural schools; and if he will make a statement on... - Schools Building Projects
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding plans for new accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a... - Special Educational Needs
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants employed at primary and second level schools in Dublin Central; and if he will provide a... - School Accommodation
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding plans for new accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a... - School Transport
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine if funding being provided for school transport is being used on ordinary bus runs; and if this is so, whether it... - School Staffing
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21256/11] - School Transport
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the costs being charged to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick in respect of school transport will be examined; and if he... - School Accommodation
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs associated with the provision of temporary accommodation for 11 schools in south Tipperary; his views on whether these costs... - Special Educational Needs
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will have the staffing complement of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24 reviewed in view of the serious concern about the... - School Enrolments
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise persons (details supplied) who have been unable to secure a place in a suitable secondary school for this September... - School Staffing
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24 has had its special needs assistant allocation cut from 13 to 6.5, a reduction of... - Departmental Bodies
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons employed by the State Examination Commission and the National Council and Curriculum Assessment by grade. [21363/11] - Special Educational Needs
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement... - Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from abroad that his Department grant aided via scholarships to come to Ireland in 2009 and 2010 to study; the... - Third Level Staff
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants provided by his Department for university lecturers, professors or officials to travel abroad; the purpose and duration of... - Schools Building Projects
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it is expected that construction will commence on the new post-primary school in Ballinamore, County Leitrim; and if he will make... - Semi-State Bodies
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the savings to the semi-State sector in his Department in a full year if he were to cap the maximum salary available in semi-State...
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