Written answers

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

  • Education Schemes
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in view of the skills gap amongst Irish citizens in terms of filling technology sector jobs and the scaling down of projects designed to stimulate...
  • Student Support Schemes
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an alternative to the Student Assistance Fund which will cease to exist after 2013 and his plan to make further cuts to the...
  • Third Level Fees
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the consequences that come with raising the student contribution charge. [51673/12]
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was originally told they were eligible to apply for a student grant even though they were attending Dublin...
  • Student Grant Scheme Applications
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the application for a student grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [51679/12]
  • Vocational Education Committees
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a vocational education committee (details supplied) is not tendering for heating oil and instead is extending its contract with the...
  • Public Sector Staff Redeployment
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the additional staff working in the Student Universal Support Ireland, if they received the necessary training, the type of training they...
  • Literacy Levels
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policies, programmes and practices in place to address the findings of the last international survey on adult literacy that showed one in four...
  • Special Educational Needs
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) is not employed by the Special Education Support Service but is in fact on part-time secondment...
  • Teaching Qualifications
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers working here who have a postgraduate qualification in ABA; the number of teachers who have received funding to study ABA at...
  • Special Educational Needs
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances under which a principal or teacher is obliged to implement the recommendations of a psychological or medical professional; and the...
  • Third Level Fees
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if arrangements will be made for discretion to be applied in cases where those who may be refused Student Universal Support Ireland grants following...
  • Education, Quality Assurance
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain the inspection and monitoring arrangements that are in place in establishments providing FETAC courses to ensure proper standards...
  • School Accommodation
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received any representations from the board or management of a school (details supplied) in relation to disability access; and if he will...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason eleven separate letters and emails to his Department have not been answered in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Longford;...
  • Education Policy
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to carry out the recommendation for the Higher Education Authority report on Initial Teacher Education to remove home economics initial...
  • Student Support Schemes
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the mounting difficulties students have in accessing their grants, if he will continue to fund the student assistance fund beyond 2013....
  • Semi-State Sector Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the number of semi-State and State agency executives and employees on an agency by agency basis that have salaries of...

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