Written answers

Tuesday, 24 June 2014

  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the policy underlining his Department's remit to provide specialist preschool and after-school care for children if any research or...
  • School Transport Administration
    183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the tendering system introduced by Bus Éireann for its school routes works; if there has been any consultation with smaller bus...
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
    184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a second redress scheme will be introduced for those survivors of institutional abuse who, for various reasons, did not avail of the...
  • Community Training Centres
    185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding a training centre in Cork city; and if he will make a statement...
  • Departmental Agencies Funding
    186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the method of funding for a State agency (details supplied); and if this funding has been sourced from moneys set aside for victims of industrial...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a centre (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if the lease on the premises will be renewed at the end of July; if new admissions...
  • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
    188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
  • School Staffing
    189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason school secretaries in DEIS schools are recognised by his Department and paid directly by it, whereas school secretaries in other...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be made available for a new school (details supplied). [26681/14]
  • Emergency Works Scheme Eligibility
    191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a letter about funding under the emergency works scheme advising that funding was granted to a school (details...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what is the definition of a payment from any other Government Department or State agency with regard to reckonable income under section F of the...
  • Summer Works Scheme Applications
    194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on a summer works application from a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason supplementary welfare allowance is not included as one of the eligible payments listed in schedule 2 for the special rate of...
  • Nursing Education
    196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of general nursing CAO places offered by Dublin City University in 2009 to 2013, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
    197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will direct the City of Dublin Education and Training Board to reverse its decision to end the funding for the adult literacy organiser...
  • Departmental Agencies Expenditure
    198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details and a detailed breakdown of the total spend since its establishment of Qualifications and Quality Ireland on external...
  • School Holidays
    199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding primary schools which finish earlier than the advised year end (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason qualified special needs assistants with less than one year's work experience are discriminated against by Circular 0044/2014 (details...
  • Schools Building Projects Applications
    201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the application of a school in Dublin (details supplied) for a site to build, as its current location is unsuitable as it...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown by year since 2011 of the financial savings and the value for money in the decision to locate the vocational...
  • School Curriculum
    203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the removal of CSPE from State examinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Third Level Staff
    205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding college lecturers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26945/14]
  • Student Grant Scheme Applications
    206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student grant applications for 2013/2014 will be accepted as late applicants in respect of two students (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
  • School Staffing
    207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the case of a primary school which in 2013 increased its number of teachers to three, two mainstream and one base school resource, if the...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding speech and language therapy in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a special needs assistant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the family of a person (details supplied) in County Galway has been advised that their child is not eligible for school transport in...
  • School Curriculum
    214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the reduction in hours of class contact time for science in the proposed new junior cycle from 240-270 hours to 200 hours is...
  • Teacher Statistics
    216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired teachers who were rehired this year as examination supervisors; the number of retired teachers who were given work in the...
  • Teacher Training Provision
    217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the level of training provided to teachers in relation to project mathematics; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider approving school transport for a person (details supplied) on medical grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Teacher Training Provision
    219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism to ensure the best expertise will be available to the teacher education section, junior cycle for teachers and national induction...
  • School Accommodation
    220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of all extension applications in schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27180/14]
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered undertaking a cost-benefit analysis of the decision to increase the pupil-teacher ratio for private schools from 19:1 to...
  • Education and Training Boards
    223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process for obtaining external nominations to education and training boards; if this process has commenced in each of the boards; and if he...
  • Teacher Training Provision
    224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to study in the Gaeltacht, if he will introduce the planned Gaeltacht scholarship scheme for teachers wishing to attend Gaeltacht...
  • Teacher Redeployment
    225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review the discrepancy in policy where a teacher seeking redeployment to another county has to resign his or her post in order to be...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the changes made to the criteria for special class provision for a school (details supplied) in County...
  • School Closures
    227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that have closed in each of the years 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27333/14]
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, due to Circular 22/2012, there is an obligation on special needs assistants to take a career break if undertaking a distance or online course...

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