Written answers

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

  • Departmental Funding
    268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise on potential funding awards in her Department, either from the national lottery fund or other, that could be granted in respect...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which efforts continue to be made to create apprenticeship opportunities under various trades; the degree to which specific...
  • Disadvantaged Status
    270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which a school (details supplied) in County Mayo lost its DEIS status; the actions taken by her Department to communicate...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons affected by the abolition of the additional training allowance of €20 per week among those participating under...
  • School Staffing
    273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an additional teacher to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30726/14]
  • Visiting Teacher Service
    274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 27 May 2014, if she has concluded her consideration of the report on the independent review of the...
  • State Bodies
    275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the make up of the proposed Apprenticeship Council; the exact number of members; and the organisation they will represent. [30755/14]
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that will be allocated for the development and establishment of apprenticeships in new occupational areas in 2015 and in 2016. [30756/14]
  • School Transport Eligibility
    278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate and ensure that a bus ticket is issued to person (details supplied) in County Leitrim to attend a school in September...
  • Child Abuse
    279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of cases pending relating to allegations of sexual abuse in day schools, if she will report on the number of such cases; the number...
  • Commemorative Events
    280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the flagship projects within the higher education sector regarding the decade of centenaries will be announced. [30843/14]
  • School Accommodation
    281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the provision of accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Curriculum
    282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work undertaken to date by the programme officer charged with developing the new curriculum on education about religion and beliefs and...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the provisions of Department circular 0030/2014 in view of concerns that it will detrimentally impact upon children with...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the plans for a new school building for a school (details supplied); when will it move off site; if a temporary...
  • School Curriculum
    285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level an honours leaving certificate in Irish is equivalent to on the European Common Framework of Reference for Languages; and if she will...
  • Schools Building Projects Applications
    287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an application for a new school (details supplied) in County Cork; if she has considered the case therein and in particular...
  • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
    288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for emergency funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if she will acknowledge the...
  • School Enrolments
    289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is appropriate that some schools request information on the school application/enrolment form for pupils as to whether or not the pupils...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school building project (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Reports
    291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department will publish its annual report for 2013. [31125/14]
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that she will not seek to proceed with proposals to include a capital assets test for the purposes of calculating eligibility...
  • Value for Money Reviews
    293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she received the value for money review of small schools; if she will now immediately move to publish it; and if she will make a statement...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that dedicated resource teaching hours are provided to Down's syndrome students with a mild learning disability from the start...
  • State Examinations Oversight
    295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will retain independent assessment for the written examination element of the new junior cycle student award; and if she will make a...
  • State Examinations
    296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will delay the introduction of the new junior cycle student award from September 2014 by introducing English along with science in...
  • Teachers' Panel Rights
    298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if automatic panel's rights will be provided to teachers who are on the seventh point of the salary pay scale; and if she will make a statement...
  • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
    299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 8 July 2014 the legal basis for excluding the actions of the independent appeals officer of Caranua....
  • Teaching Council of Ireland
    301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has completed his consideration of correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding recognition of home tutor...
  • Teaching Qualifications
    302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if for current B.Ed students completing their four year degree course in 2016-2017 whether or not their diploma will be included in their degree;...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when work will commence on a project (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31356/14]
  • Teachers' Panel Rights
    304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the qualifying criteria for the supplementary teaching panel in view of the difficulties applicants are facing satisfying the...
  • School Funding
    305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding reduction that has been applied to a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; the way this will impact on the service; the basis...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the loss of a teacher and special needs assistant in respect of a school (details supplied). [31393/14]
  • School Staffing
    307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will not cut the teaching staff at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31395/14]
  • Teaching Council of Ireland
    310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 8 July 2014, the date on which the Teaching Council will provide a report on proposals from the...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the issue whereby 153 of approximately 660 young adults with an intellectual disability and or autism who leave school...
  • Schools Building Projects Applications
    312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • School Accommodation
    313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the provision of additional accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • School Curriculum
    315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to promote the study of physics in second level schools and as a degree subject in third level institutions; and if she...
  • School Placement
    317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has had any engagement with An Garda Síochána, the Health Service Executive or Túlsa in relation to issues...
  • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
    318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of public relations-communications to her Department in 2013; the spend to date in 2014; the total estimate for 2014; the...
  • Education and Training Boards
    319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an internship extension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31554/14]
  • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
    320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the avenue left open to a student living 45.9 km from the college they attend in cases where an appeal hearing has determined they are living...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in implementing the new system for allocating educational supports such as learning resource hours and special needs assistants...
  • Summer Works Scheme Administration
    323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the works under the summer works scheme of both phases have commenced; if her Department has released the finance to cover the cost of the...
  • Autism Incidence
    324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form by county since 2011 the number of children who have received a diagnosis on the autistic spectrum; the...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school bus service (details supplied) in County Kerry will be continued for a leaving certificate student; and if she will make a statement...
  • Education and Training Boards Staff
    327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Kildare-Wicklow Education and Training Board currently have no education officer and only one...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills position regarding the proposed building project for a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; the present stage of this project; when the...
  • Education and Training Boards Staff
    329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts that have been made by her and her Department to address the issue of staff restructuring in the 16 ETBs that have been established...

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