Written answers

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 7 May 2014, if he will consider introducing an exemption from maths for children with the rare...
  • FÁS Training Programmes Provision
    188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a two year FÁS course (details supplied) has ceased after one year. [22388/14]
  • Autism Support Services
    189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full cost to the State of the provision of ABA support to a child with severe autism for ten hours per week for a 12-month period. [23062/14]
  • Health and Safety
    190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the introduction of a one-day asbestos awareness safety programme aimed at general construction workers, craft workers and...
  • School Premises
    191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the site and premises of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22138/14]
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding Student Universal Support Ireland grants where the student is in receipt of a grant and back to education allowance, their...
  • School Staffing
    193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Mayo which faces the prospect of losing a teacher from September 2014; the options...
  • Departmental Staff Remuneration
    194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 8 May 2014, when his Department will communicate his decision to the person (details supplied) as...
  • Departmental Strategies
    195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of the strategy documents his Department is currently implementing. [22171/14]
  • Summer Works Scheme Applications
    196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be included on the summer works programme list. [22197/14]
  • School Staffing
    197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of small schools countrywide that are in a similar position to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary which lost a teacher...
  • School Curriculum
    198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to incorporate Chinese into the leaving certificate curriculum; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22211/14]
  • Teacher Redeployment
    200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry did not qualify for the supplementary panel for 2014-2015; if his Department will provide...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant, financial assistance or bursary available to Irish persons who wish to commence studying for nursing in a university (details...
  • Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements
    203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Central Applications Office gives a higher priority to students who obtained leaving certificate points in the current year when...
  • Autism Support Services
    204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 192 and 195 of 6 May 2014, the way the Teaching Council defines the minimum course content required to...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus pass to a school will be restored in the case of a child (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond without further delay to correspondence from a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [22271/14]
  • Schools Recognition
    211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13 is eligible for State funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22275/14]
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the facilities that will be made available to a school (details supplied) in County Cork for a deaf child who has put in an application for needs...
  • Special Educational Needs Data
    213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants in primary and secondary schools in County Clare; the number of children to whom they provided support in...
  • School Transport Administration
    216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the total number of routes, the total number of children carried and the cost per child carried for primary...
  • Further Education and Training Programmes Provision
    219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that FETAC course operators must run their courses in FETAC-accredited centres; his views on whether...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the resources needed for a child (details supplied) in County Kildare will be processed as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a...
  • School Transport Administration
    221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Bus Éireann requires buses operated by its contractors to be tested by a private company at the expense of Bus Éireann even...
  • Special Education Review
    222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 30 April 2014, if he will confirm that he received a letter (details supplied) from the...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 186 and 216 of 30 April 2014, if he was aware when he made his reply of the recent ESRI-NCSE report which...
  • Autism Support Services
    224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he has stated that the SESS contemporary applied behaviour analysis course trains teachers to design, implement and evaluate ABA...
  • Schools Data
    225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the obligations for primary and secondary schools to compile accounts on a yearly basis; and the person who signed off. [22429/14]
  • School Management
    226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the avenues of redress parents or pupils have, in the event that a dispute arises between a person and the board of management of a school that...
  • Schools Amalgamation
    228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regard to progress concerning the merger of two schools (details provided) in County Kilkenny; when he expects this amalgamation to...
  • Summer Works Scheme Applications
    229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a grant in respect of a school (details supplied). [22445/14]
  • Student Grant Scheme Payments
    230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22446/14]
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence regarding a permanent school building (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Third Level Qualifications Recognition
    232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the qualifications of a dental hygienist are regarded as the same as those of a dental nurse; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Speech and Language Therapy
    233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a speech and language class will be provided for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22507/14]
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine a difficult situation (details supplied) whereby a young boy who has moderate learning disabilities cannot find appropriate...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the progress being made for the provision of a new 1,000 pupil school for a school (details supplied) in County...
  • School Accommodation
    236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action his Department has taken to date to ensure that all children in an area (details supplied) have a school place for the school year...
  • Adult Education
    237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the decision was made to close the community training centre, Mullaghcrone, Drogheda, County Louth; the reason that the decision was taken...
  • School Accommodation
    240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date with providing a school (details supplied) in County Galway with a new school building; and if he will make a statement on...
  • School Staffing
    241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will insist on the teaching posts being maintained at a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the fact that the number of...
  • School Funding
    242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that students at a school (details supplied) in County Galway have no access to on-site sports...
  • School Accommodation
    243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools with no on-site sports facilities. [22595/14]
  • Teacher Redeployment
    244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be placed on the panel; the reasons they have received two different sets of advice from...
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a teacher who was in receipt of an allowance for teaching through the medium of the Irish language in the gaelscoil in Tullamore is no...
  • School Enrolments
    246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a child (details supplied) in Dublin 4 has been refused a place in their local school due to the...
  • Education and Training Boards
    247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide some background information regarding the takeover of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 13 by SOLAS; and if he will...
  • School Funding
    248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive funding to carry out works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22653/14]
  • Weight of Schoolbags
    249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in reference to the report by a working group in 1998, which recommended that no child carry over 10% of their body weight, yet children are...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 1 April 2014, if he has received the finalised report of the independent review of the visiting...
  • Schools Establishment
    251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 13 May 2014, the plans in place for an Educate Together secondary school for the areas Dublin 7, 9...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding works in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22697/14]
  • School Patronage
    253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for change in relation to school patronage for primary schools and secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a reader in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22764/14]
  • Teacher Redeployment
    255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will arrange for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath to be redeployed from the Department of Education and Skills in Dublin to...
  • School Accommodation
    256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his policy on constructing temporary classroom accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22807/14]
  • National Educational Psychological Service Administration
    257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will receive an appointment with a NEPS psychologist as a matter of...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision (2 comments)
    258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reinstate the special needs assistant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a permanent school building in respect of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Closures
    261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of discussions with the INTO in relation to the future of rural schools, if a special case will be considered for a school (details...
  • Schools Procurement Unit
    262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the purpose of the new schools procurement unit officer role when schools are now prohibited from purchasing supplies from local shops and must...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the National Council for Special Education and his Department payroll use the term full time or whole time post within special needs...
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is setting up wage curtailment with circular letter 0041/2014 (details supplied). [22871/14]
  • Teacher Training Provision
    265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding training allowances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22873/14]
  • Nursing Education
    266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of young qualified nurses who left Ireland each year in 2013-2014 or any statistical information from HEA regarding qualified nurses...
  • Schools Designation
    267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request his Department to reassess the primary schools in Togher, County Cork with a view to granting DEIS status; and if he will make...
  • School Accommodation
    268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty of parents in enrolling children in a school (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has autism and is awaiting an educational place for some considerable time; if he...
  • State Examinations
    270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has been denied a reader for the leaving certificate exam in June 2014; and if he will...
  • Higher Education Institutions
    271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he will take to secure academic research and particularly oral histories in view of Boston College's failure to protect its work;...
  • Schools Building Projects Administration
    274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will put in place a list of approved architects for school building projects in order that schools can choose from this list...
  • School Accommodation
    275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22973/14]
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the resources available for exceptionally able children who fit the profile of giftedness; the information, support and advice in place for...
  • Summer Works Scheme Expenditure
    277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the list of primary schools by county which were granted funding for windows under the summer works scheme in...
  • State Examinations
    278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a reader for the leaving certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
  • Teacher Training Provision
    279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has offered professional development to teachers who want to improve their mathematical knowledge; and his plans to rectify same. [23009/14]
  • State Examinations
    280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of junior certificate and leaving certificate pupils who applied during each of the past seven years for a reader, a waiver from the...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he will address the problems caused by the implementation of relatively new criteria for the registration of teachers who intend to...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will qualify for the school bus service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23068/14]
  • State Examinations
    285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding reform of the junior cycle in secondary schools, the measures he will put in place to ensure impartiality where teachers are correcting...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a student (details supplied) in County Kildare can gain access to an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit in a second level school; and if...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a Student Universal Support Ireland grant application was turned down in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
  • State Examinations
    290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be allocated a scribe and reader for the leaving certificate; if the decision on appeal will...
  • Teacher Training Provision
    291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding trainee teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23170/14]
  • School Funding
    292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all schools will be subject to the full water charges to be introduced later this year; if schools will be eligible for a concessionary rate;...
  • Rainwater Harvesting Systems Provision
    294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recently announced building projects and summer works schemes for schools will allow for the retrofitting of energy saving and water...
  • School Accommodation
    295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update of the projected completion timeframe for the new Malahide and Portmarnock Educate Together school; if he will...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a tutor in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Waterford. [23224/14]
  • Summer Works Scheme Expenditure
    297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve cost option 3 for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo as opposed to cost option 1, under the 2014 summer works scheme...
  • Psychological Assessments
    299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, testing without further delay;...
  • Lease Agreements
    300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of money that has been paid by his Department to a private organisation (details supplied); if he will specify the legal basis...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
    301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 25 February 2014, when the information regarding special classes and integration into mainstream...
  • Education Policy
    302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons section 28 of the 1998 Education Act, which empowers his Department to put in place a nationally agreed complaints/grievance...
  • International Students
    303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will introduce legislation to protect students and staff in language colleges, in view of the fact that a number of these colleges...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made with the provision of a replacement school building for a school (details supplied) in County Galway; when this...
  • Education and Training Boards
    305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a complete list of CTC’s in operation during 2012/2013; and his plans to integrate these into ETB’s. [23342/14]
  • Teaching Council of Ireland
    308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the current situating relating to the probating of teachers for primary schools where teachers who complete their probation in...
  • Emergency Planning
    309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocols that are in place by his Department in the event of a status red - severe weather warning for schools in the interest of child...

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