Written answers
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Department of Education and Skills
- Employment Support Services
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons exiting the springboard programme prior to completion due to having found employment; and if he will make a statement on the... - Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown by county of vocational education committee and post leaving certificate places allocated per head of population in... - Psychological Assessments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been waiting three years for an National Educational Psychological Service assessment,... - School Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve an application by a school (details supplied) in County Waterford for additional accommodation to replace the dilapidated,... - Pupil-Teacher Ratio
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pupil teacher ratio in DEIS schools will be maintained next year. [41329/12] - School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all secondary schools who have lost so called legacy posts since September 2012; and the number of posts in each school... - University Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been any further developments in relation to the south east and in particular Waterford Regional Technical College being granted... - School Furniture
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a report in 2005 by the National Back Pain Association UK that considered that the backward sloping chairs that are... - Sports Facilities Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding University College Dublin and the new sports facility which has become difficult for students to access with restrictive hours.... - Higher Education Course Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of foreign students that Educate Ireland has attracted to third level institutions here in the 2011/12 academic year. [41360/12] - Teaching Contracts
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of contractual teaching hours fulfilled in third level institutions in the academic year 2011/12. [41361/12] - Consultancy Contracts
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of consultancy and technical services outsourced to universities here from Government Departments in 2011/12. [41362/12] - School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding staffing at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41366/12] - Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the eligibility criteria for the vocational training opportunity scheme; if vacant course placements will be extended to those seeking to return to... - Departmental Staff Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish details of all allowances paid to staff in his Department; the business case made by his Department in respect of these allowances... - School Patronage
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he proposes to vindicate the constitutional rights of the parents who live in Portobello across Dublin 6, 8 and 12, and who are involved with... - School Transport Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding school transport; if he will address these concerns; and if he will make a statement on the... - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will recognise long term recipients of supplementary welfare as a long term social welfare payment when assessing income for the special rate of... - Schools Building Projects Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that a school (details supplied) in County Offaly has submitted an amended proposal for an extension: if he will proceed with this... - Schools Building Projects Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the status of a school building project (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the... - School Transport Appeals
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of an appeal for school transport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the... - School Transport Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who has been refused school transport; and if he will... - Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form education spending both as a percentage of gross domestic product and in nominal terms by year from 1992 to 2011.... - School Transport Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 12 June 2012 the reason someone in Bus Éireann decided that persons (details supplied) in County... - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if for the purposes of determining if a third level student is the required distance from the college to be eligible for the non-adjacent grant, the... - Teacher Training
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to implement the recommendation made recently to him that teacher training will cease in colleges (details supplied); and if he will make a... - Site Acquisitions
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he will not enter into negotiations with the Health Service Executive regarding the purchase, for a nominal price, of a field adjacent to a... - School Curriculum
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will revive the modern languages in primary schools initiative in view of statistics that only 4% of primary students here learn a foreign... - School Transport Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures that are in place to facilitate a person (details supplied) in County Meath regarding the school transport scheme; and if he will make... - School Transport Appeals
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal has been lodged in a school transport case in respect of a person (details supplied); if so, if he will issue an update on same; and if... - English Language Training Organisations
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of establishments here that are providing English language classes for Chinese students; the number of Chinese students that have come here... - Physical Education Facilities
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding remains in place for the construction of an extension to be used as a gym facility at a college (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [41828/12] - Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when repair work needed to address the pyrite found in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be completed. [41829/12] - Schools Building Projects
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the construction of new classrooms extension for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is in his Departments capital works programme. [41830/12] - Teaching Qualifications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the payment of allowance to teachers for masters level qualifications, in particular with relation to teachers who took up... - Special Educational Needs
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the withdrawal of special needs assistants in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a... - School Curriculum
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an audit has taken place on a number of pupils, in the primary sector, who posses the ability to speak a foreign language; if so, if he will... - School Transport
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied) if he will provide a definition of traversable; his views on whether the word... - Third Level Courses
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the recognition of the bachelor of architecture degree currently accredited at Waterford Institute of Technology and University... - Broadband Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline details of his new initiative for effective broadband service for all schools; if he will provide an update on the situation... - Third Level Facilities
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of international experts that were involved in a recent report commissioned by the Health Service Executive which looked at mergers in the... - School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has assessed the impact of changes to the provision of guidance counsellors and the effect this is having on guidance counselling services in... - Teaching Qualifications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is fair that teachers are to be disproportionately impacted by the cut to allowances for new entrants to the public service;... - School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers that will be affected by the cuts to allowances for new entrants to teaching in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the... - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had any contact with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government regarding recent decisions by a number of county... - World University Rankings
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to the most recent World University rankings which showed the universities here have slipped again; the steps he is taking to... - State Examinations Reviews
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times the implementation body for junior certificate reform has met since it was established; the dates on which the body met; and if he... - Postgraduate Enrolments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons studying at postgraduate level in 2012/13; the way this compares to the number that studied at postgraduate level in 2011/12;... - Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a student grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a... - School Completion Programme
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contract price for the building on the new national school in Ardclough, County Kildare. [41950/12] - Schools Building Projects Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a proposed building project for a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; if he proposes to restore this project to his... - Teacher Fee Refund Scheme
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the teacher fee refund scheme as it relates to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on... - Irish Language
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to rolling out free or subsidised courses in Irish, in the form of lifelong, continuing and or adult education, which... - Public Sector Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list all the current positions, where the appointment was made by his Department held by retired senior civil servants; and if he will make...
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