Written answers

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

  • State Bodies Mergers
    85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the merger of the National Centre for Technology in Education with the National Council for Curriculum and...
  • School Accommodation
    86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Louth has proposed to integrate an autism unit into its...
  • Student Support Schemes Issues
    87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider that there is little point in the Government fully accepting the recommendations of the Fottrell report, committing to...
  • Schools Building Projects Administration
    88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date by which tenders have to be submitted to his Department for the construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Waterford; if a...
  • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
    89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding emergency funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for an ASD unit, English speaking, for primary school children in the west Cork area. [32363/13]
  • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
    91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal made to Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants who will be allocated to primary and secondary schools in County Kerry from September 2013; the comparable...
  • School Accommodation
    93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the application for capital funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick requesting urgent repair of...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours a permanent special needs assistant in a primary school is required to work on a weekly basis; and if he will make a statement...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special needs assistant allocation for a child (details supplied) in County Cork currently receiving full-time assistance will be...
  • School Staffing
    97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of release days from full-time teaching duties afforded by his Department to teaching principals;...
  • School Management
    98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training that was provided for members of boards of management at primary and post-primary level; the funding his Department provided for this...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce the average class size in primary schools in Ireland, which according to OECD Education at a Glance 2013 is the second highest...
  • School Staffing
    100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list in tabular form the number of assistant principal posts and special duties posts in primary schools in March 2009; the number of...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Section 29 appeals against suspension in post primary schools that were taken by parents of children with special needs; the number...
  • School Funding
    106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial support being provided to each of the managerial bodies at primary and post primary level in each of the past five years. [32402/13]
  • Departmental Funding
    107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial support being provided to the National Parents Council Primary and the National Parents Council Post Primary in each of the past...
  • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
    109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) may expect a response to their current appeal to Student Universal Support Ireland; and if he will make a...
  • School Enrolments
    111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to secure a school place in respect of a child (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Student Grant Scheme Applications
    112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a third level higher education grant application for 2012-13 will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) as a dependent...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify a situation regarding special needs assistants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32433/13]
  • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
    115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine a student grant appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • School Accommodation
    116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow is being asked for a financial contribution; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Fee Paying Schools
    117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that the only State support to fee paying schools relates to teacher pay and that the schools themselves have to cover all of...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he has been able to avert any loss of teachers at primary and second level schools throughout the country; the extent to...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to be in a position to meet the educational needs of children with special needs at primary and second level in...
  • Fee-Paying Schools
    121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to facilitate dialogue with the authorities in catholic and protestant fee-paying schools with a view to...
  • School Accommodation
    128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools at primary and second level throughout the country at which he has managed to replace temporary school buildings with...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will become fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32512/13]
  • School Curriculum
    131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the workplace educational and skills requirements continues to be monitored with a view to ensuring that students leaving...
  • Student Grant Scheme Administration
    132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects Student Universal Support Ireland to be in a position to deal with processing of higher education grants for...
  • Bullying in Schools
    137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of incidents of school bullying including cyber bullying reported to his Department through the primary and or post-primary...
  • Third Level Participation
    138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students known to have dropped out of third level education in each of the past three years to date for whatever reason; his plans...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant will be assigned to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Transport Eligibility
    140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to representations made by this Deputy on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
  • Third Level Participation
    141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for a person to participate in the DARE programme in a given academic year if their application is held up beyond the closing...
  • Ministerial Meetings
    142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his meeting with Down Syndrome Ireland on 25 June 2013; if he will provide the resource hours to children with Down syndrome...
  • School Services Staff
    143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a protocol or guideline in place governing the appointment of voluntary classroom assistants at primary and second level; if not, his...

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