Written answers

Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Department of Education and Skills

 
  • Education Welfare Service Provision
    134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions being taken by his Department to address the findings and recommendations contained in the recently published investigation by the...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide reassurances to parents and teachers that there will be no cuts or reductions in services to the visiting teacher service; and...
  • School Patronage
    138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the Forum for Patronage Report was far too narrow in scope and centred much more around the religious education curriculum...
  • Education and Training Provision
    139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will re-examine his decision to require apprentices to fund the part of their apprenticeship when they attend college as this will have a...
  • School Patronage
    140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will instruct his Department to engage and consult directly and openly with the board of management of a school (details supplied) with the...
  • Education Policy
    142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of teaching time in second level schools is to be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2347/14]
  • Teacher Education Programmes
    144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is putting in place to facilitate persons who hope to pursue teaching as a career; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Teaching Council of Ireland
    145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for new laws that will monitor teacher performance. [2340/14]
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 19 December 2013, if a specific mechanism can be built into the online application system for...
  • Adult Education
    147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports provided, financial or otherwise, by his Department to encourage the take up of Irish language courses by adults in the context of...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools here that operate withdrawal or timeout rooms for children with autism; and his plans to regulate and monitor the use of...
  • Early Child Care Education Issues
    149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions his Department will take in 2014 to ensure a high quality early years education system; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Pension Provisions
    150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any of the two primary and second level teachers on his Department's payroll who retired between 1 February 2009 and 29 February 2012 and who...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to avoid the problems he noted his predecessor was facing in February 2008 with regard to institutional rigidities and...
  • Education Standards
    152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which his Department continues to interact with industry with a view to ensuring that the educational sector remains adequately...
  • Education Policy
    155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that is ring fenced to ensure schools have the capacity to deliver the new junior certificate reforms. [2341/14]
  • Skills Shortages
    156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which his Department has become alert to a shortage of skills in certain areas with particular reference to those sectors...
  • Special Education Review
    157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the National Council for Sepcial Education literature review will not be published until 2015 in view of the fact that those tendering...

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