Written answers

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

  • Student Grant Scheme Applications
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be allocated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a...
  • Home Tuition Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding home tuition in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; if same will be extended; and if he will make a statement...
  • Student Grant Scheme Delays
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when students (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have their higher education grant applications processed; the reason for the delay in...
  • Disadvantaged Status
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the situation regarding a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55734/12]
  • Student Registration Fee
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to his Department if the income threshold for liability to pay the registration fee was increased by €10,000 and €20,000...
  • Student Assistance Fund
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he proposes to increase the funding for the student assistance fund, to €12 million per annum, in view of the high demand for this fund; and...
  • Student Support Schemes
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to negotiate a low interest loan scheme with credit unions that would be guaranteed by the State for post graduate students; and if he...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following his Budget announcement of 2013 and his Department’s decision in relation to teacher student ratio of 1 to 19 in PLCs and colleges of...
  • Student Grant Scheme Delays
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the overdue grant payment will be processed by Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and...
  • Student Grant Scheme Payments
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of announcements made in Budget 2013, if he will give assurances to students in receipt of a maintenance and top up grant for the academic...
  • Student Grant Scheme Delays
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who has been awarded and paid the higher education grant has yet to receive the confirmation...
  • Student Grant Scheme Applications
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a top-up grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Contracts
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of each service in his Department that is currently outsourced; the company that provides such services and the total cost...
  • Psychological Service
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence regarding a psychological assessment in respect of a person (details supplied) [55839/12]
  • Computerisation Programme
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make funding available for computer upgrading or replacement to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
  • Student Grant Scheme Applications
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options open to a person (details supplied) in County Cork in terms of financial assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55857/12]
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the full list of cuts to the education budget in 2013 including cuts that were announced as part of budget 2012; and if he will...
  • Back to Education Allowance Payments
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had any discussions with the Department of Social Protection in relation to cuts to the back to education allowance and to the cost of...
  • Vocational Education Committees
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact that the budget cuts to the vocational education committee sector will have on the delivery of services and the way the VEC will be able to...
  • Student Grant Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that will be affected by the 3% reduction in the income threshold for student maintenance grants in 2013; and if he will make a...
  • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he can justify a cut to training allowances for young persons in vocational training opportunities scheme, Youth Reach and FÁS at a time...
  • Further Education and Training Programmes Places
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons currently in receipt of training allowances under further education and training programmes; and if he will make a statement on...
  • School Staffing
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the loss of 75 teachers in small schools in 2013 will result in the closure of any of these schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a student maintenance grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55877/12]
  • Student Grant Scheme Applications
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55878/12]
  • Institutes of Technology
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Dundalk Institute of Technology will suffer any cuts to funding or resources as a result of spending cuts in Budget 2013. [55892/12]
  • Early Retirement Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision on early retirement will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to concerns that up to 40 plus teaching posts have been placed at risk as a result of the decision announced in Budget 2013 to...
  • Student Grant Scheme Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of setting up the Student Universal Support Ireland third level higher education body; the envisaged running costs up to the end of 2012; the...
  • Departmental Staff Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if temporary promotions or acting-up allowances have not been a feature of the staffing arrangements for this EU Presidency, if he will confirm that...

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