Written answers

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

  • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Administration
    152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of SOLAS in ensuring that employers who take on apprentices under the supervision of SOLAS are compliant with employment law in respect...
  • SOLAS Staffing
    153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the number of instructor programmes SOLAS has organised for expanding the number of trainers approved and registered to undertake the...
  • Irish Language Issues
    154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the grant to student teachers undertaking courses in the Gaeltacht will be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28328/14]
  • Education and Training Boards Staff
    156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will allow a representative of the Donegal Family Resource Centre in County Donegal to become a member of the Donegal Education and...
  • Minor Works Scheme Suspension
    157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the position regarding the minor works scheme for national schools, particularly the administration of the funding permits in future...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received correspondence from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; if he has considered the associated request; the outcome of...
  • Education and Training Boards
    159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans regarding a training centre (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27853/14]
  • School Enrolments Data
    160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list the school feeder areas in Dublin city and county which his Department uses for school planning purposes; if this information...
  • Schools Building Projects Administration
    161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding for school extensions is exclusively being used for that purpose; if consideration has been given in any instances to fund new school...
  • School Services Staff
    162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce measures to regularise the employment of school secretaries including rates of pay, duties, sick leave and pension...
  • Adult Education
    164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the status of the target literacy programme in Donaghmede and its future as a vital provider of adult literacy in the area....
  • School Transport Administration
    165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will allow medical card holders who are applying for transport to schools which are not necessarily the nearest to them to be able to avail...
  • School Staffing
    166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Louth was not allocated an EAL teaching post on appeal for the next academic year even though...
  • School Management
    168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that he has received correspondence regarding a matter (details supplied); the advice he can offer in this situation; and if...
  • Minor Works Scheme Suspension
    169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore the minor works grant in the forthcoming budget in view of the costs of routine repairs schools must carry out and the...
  • School Enrolments
    170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding sanction for an extra class in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Student Grant Scheme Administration
    171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons refused a Student Universal Support Ireland grant in the first instance due to an error made on the part of SUSI are compelled...
  • School Guidance Counsellors
    172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills notwithstanding the fact that he stated in his reply on 17 June last that teachers, as highly trained individuals and responsible adults...
  • School Curriculum
    173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the Association of Civic, Social and Political Education Teachers in Ireland regarding the...
  • School Patronage
    174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has commissioned a White Paper on divestment of patronage in schools; the persons tasked to draft this paper; the date on which it will be...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding laptop assistance in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a new school (details supplied) in County Galway following a planned meeting between the board of...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria that will be used for the proposed new resource teacher model; if a school (details supplied) will be taken into consideration when...
  • School Staffing
    178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 13 February 2013, the number of relief teaching days allocated to teachers on a departmental pension...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will be retaining its special needs assistant for the incoming school year. [28251/14]
  • Schools Data
    180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and roll numbers of all new primary schools given recognition since 2007; the names of...
  • Disadvantaged Status
    181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest date on which primary schools were granted DEIS urban band 1 status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28261/14]
  • Schools Administration
    182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he considers it appropriate for schools to send home in children's school bags political letters confirming news of works to be carried out;...
  • Schools Building Projects Administration
    184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dates on which the building works at a school (details supplied) have been in the five different stages of his Department's school design and...
  • Third Level Staff
    185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding promotion within the university sector for academic staff and the limitations that apply regarding these promotions in...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the National Council for Special Education has yet to release its allocations for special needs assistants for 2014-2015. [28374/14]
  • School Accommodation
    187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider funding a proposal to provide alternative temporary accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
  • Sale of School Property
    188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school patrons that sold land or school buildings during each of the past ten years; the details of the sale; and the amount of...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact way in which the National Council for Special Education will consult with stakeholders on its new proposals regarding the allocation of...
  • School Enrolments
    192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the 2012 decision to raise enrolment thresholds for two, three and four-teacher schools in view of the damage that has been...
  • School Closures
    193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and locations of schools which have closed in each of the years between 2004 and 2013 in tabular form. [28503/14]
  • School Enrolments
    194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of small schools nationwide affected by the increased enrolment thresholds for two, three and four-teacher schools; the financial...

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