Written answers

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Department of Education and Skills

 
  • Higher Education Institutions Issues
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends that the higher education system should be reconfigured into five regional clusters; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Staffing
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a Millward Brown survey that found that in addition to losing classroom subject teachers, many schools have also lost specialist teachers...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent Impact study which indicated that 60% of special needs assistants in schools say they have been assaulted by the pupils with...
  • Vocational Education Committees Staff
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the VEC sector has employed retired public servants for sitting on interview boards between the years 2010 - 2012; and if he will provide, in...
  • Physical Education
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve physical education training at primary school level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17558/13]
  • Student Grant Scheme Reform
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes he plans for means testing third level financial supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17532/13]
  • Schools Guidance Counsellors
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any plans to review the cuts in guidance counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17537/13]
  • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reversing the pupil teacher ratio and lifting the cap on student numbers in colleges of further education; and if he will make a...
  • Schools Administration
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need by some schools, due to circumstances outside of their control, to have policies in place that prevent children running in the...
  • Performance Management Systems
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to introduce annual evaluations and reviews of teacher performance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17527/13]
  • Ministerial Travel
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his visit to China; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17441/13]
  • Teaching Council of Ireland
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act, 2001 is due to commence on 1 November, 2013, his plans to ensure that teachers are...
  • Fee Paying Schools
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures, if any, he intends to implement in response a report into the 55 private fee-charging schools in the State which have more than...
  • Schools Building Projects Applications
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that funding is immediately made available for a refurbishment and building project (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [17589/13]
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase the number of special needs assistants, resource teachers or learning support teachers in a manner commensurate to the increase in...
  • Croke Park Agreement Issues
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of Croke Park II on the education budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17533/13]
  • Public Procurement Regulations (2 comments)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the efforts he has made to ensure that schools will continue to be able to purchase stationery supplies from small...
  • Schools Building Projects Applications
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if changes to the school building programmme will be made based on exceptional circumstances of accommodation needs of schools which were not fully...
  • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the decision to impose a 19 to 1 student teacher ratio for further education colleges which deal with the creative arts, such as...
  • School Enrolments
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change school enrolment practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17538/13]
  • School Curriculum
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the subject of history as a mandatory part of the curriculum for the junior cycle; if he is considering merging history with a group of...
  • Croke Park Agreement Issues
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of the recent Croke Park agreement on the education budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17548/13]
  • School Staffing
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review his policy on the staffing ratios in small rural schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17437/13]
  • School Accommodation
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason 400 pupils are being educated in a prefabricated school (details supplied) in County Dublin and, less than 200 metres away, a new school is...
  • Schools Guidance Counsellors
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to revisit the cuts to the number of guidance counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17552/13]
  • Student Grant Scheme Administration
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has confidence in City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee to continue to administer Student Universal Support Ireland for the 2013/14...
  • Croke Park Agreement Issues
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the TUI's rejection of the Croke Park 2 Agreement; and if he will review the current proposals tabled by the Labour Relations Commission...
  • Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for reform of the points system for third level entry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17540/13]
  • School Health and Safety Issues
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the findings of an Impact study that found 60% of special needs assistants SNAs in schools say they have been assaulted by the pupils...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will remove the cap on the number of resource and learning support teachers working with special needs students; and if he will make a statement...
  • School Inspectors
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the procedures and criteria used in the selection of post primary school inspectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • State Examinations Issues
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the proposed changes to the Junior Certificate cycle will devalue the status of the exam amongst students, parents and teachers;...
  • State Examinations Reviews
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he will take in response to concerns expressed by the Teachers Union Ireland and Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland that the...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he will take in respect of figures published by Dublin that show 1% of children attending school have autism and that a typical school is...
  • Schools Building Contractors
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a contractor has not been appointed to complete the school works at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, despite repeated...
  • State Examinations Reviews
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the TUI and ASTI’s determination to resist any attempt to implement measures that would result in the continual evaluation of...
  • FÁS Training Courses
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that he decided not to allocate those participating in CPL Momentum Courses, which are being administered by FÁS, the training, travel...
  • Further Education and Training Programmes Funding
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the development of the further education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17582/13]
  • Garda Vetting of Personnel
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assurances he will give that schools will not experience long delays when appointing new teachers under the new national vetting legislation; and...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that is being provided for support services for children with autism; the numbers of staff employed in associated programmes; if...
  • School Patronage
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change school patronage at primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17526/13]
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that funding is immediately made available for a building project (details supplied) in Dublin 15 involving the removal of...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he has taken to date to improve equality of access at third level facing children of non-EU migrants; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Student Grant Scheme Design
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the legislation governing the Student Universal Support Ireland grant discriminates against students whose parent for the purposes of...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent Impact study which indicated that more than half of special needs assistants in schools say they have been assaulted by...
  • Residential Institutions Issues
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the appointments to the Residential Institutions Statutory Board in 2012; when the applications to the RISB will be processed and...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the fact that Down's Syndrome is not categorised as a low incidence disability, meaning less teaching supports and acting as a...
  • Skills Development
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate, arising from the experience in recent years, the extent to which the education system adequately meets the requirements and...
  • Physical Education
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he plans to tackle the low average rate of physical education allocation time in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17439/13]

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