Written answers

Thursday, 3 October 2013

  • Teaching Contracts
    96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has had discussions regarding to the changing of existing academic contracts in order to impose a mandatory contract hours...
  • Weight of Schoolbags
    97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views regarding the heavy weight of schoolbags carried by school children; if his Department has carried out any long-term studies on the...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the rationale behind the decision to introduce the supplementary allocation panel for special needs assistants; the reason...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of grant support available in respect of special needs children of pre-school age attending early intervention units;...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider making more special needs assistant internships available to alleviate the pressures being felt by teachers and students in...
  • School Transport Provision
    101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain what the item return to risk for Bus Éireann means as it appears in the Bus Éireann bill for school transport posted...
  • School Transport Issues
    104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will put the 45 year old school transport contract/agreement/arrangement out to public tender; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Site Acquisitions
    108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made with regard to the acquisition of a site required for the development of a new school (details supplied) included...
  • Schools Emergency Funding
    109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support an application for emergency funding grant in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a...
  • Schools Building Projects Applications
    110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the potential construction and development options for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Transport Provision
    111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school bus transport will be provided for a child (details supplied) in County Cork; the reason an application for a concessionary bus ticket...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed schedule and timetable for completion of the proposed new combined secondary school in Skibbereen, County Cork; and if he will make...
  • Literacy Levels
    113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date in his Department's implementation of the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reversing the phased adjustments at primary level to staffing schedules for one, two, three and four teacher schools...
  • Disadvantaged Status
    115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reversing the cuts to rural DEIS schools introduced in budget 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41727/13]
  • Third Level Funding
    116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring third level grants to the level, in terms of rate, threshold and eligibility, that pertained prior to budget...
  • Schools Guidance Counsellors
    117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reversing the cuts to guidance counselling provided for in the 2012 budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Special Educational Needs Expenditure
    118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring resource teaching hours to the level that existed in 2010/11 and in 2011/12; and if he will make a statement on...

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