Written answers

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

  • Education and Training Boards Staff
    1233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding efforts to ensure that the staff of a centre (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their ex gratia redundancy...
  • School Transport Administration
    1235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to any provisions or measures available as an alternative for persons over 60 years of age and who are not IT...
  • School Transport Applications
    1236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a school bus pass in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [33257/14]
  • Child Care Services Provision
    1237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will extend eligibility for the child care employment and training support scheme to include access courses and third level college...
  • School Transport Provision
    1238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the bus service was cut for students at St. Michael's House in Raheny, Dublin 5; if he will support adequate funding for this...
  • School Placement
    1239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a secondary school pupil who has been expelled from one post-primary school and now wishes to return to school and...
  • School Transport Provision
    1240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will update the guidelines concerning school transport runs to allow discretion where changes to routes can be made where there would not...
  • School Transport Applications
    1241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views in relation to school transport (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34711/14]
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices for each trade currently registered with SOLAS, including information on the stage they are currently at; their...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    1243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 1 July 2014, the position regarding school transport in respect of a child (details supplied); and...
  • Third Level Expenditure
    1244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of mounting college open days for undergraduate students, by institution and year for each university and institute of technology since...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    1246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact the increase in pupil teacher ratio numbers of private or fee paying schools, both financially and in terms of increase in...
  • Education and Training Boards
    1247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Educational Training Board Centre at Loreto Fermoy, County Cork is closing on a permanent basis; the alternative educational...
  • Public Sector Pensions
    1248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a pension issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33086/14]
  • Haddington Road Agreement Implementation
    1249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made following the Haddington Road agreement in establishing a teaching panel for secondary school teachers as per...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will immediately reverse the decision to impose a student service charge on all apprentices while attending institutes of technology for...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    1251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the educational needs of a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33121/14]
  • Departmental Staff Data
    1253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff who retired, left or otherwise departed from their employment from 1 July 2013 to 31 December 2013, and the expected annual...
  • Public Sector Staff Data
    1255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new staff employed in primary, secondary and third level education since 1 July 2013 up to 31 December 2013 and the expected...
  • Disability Support Services
    1258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position on the report completed by the National Disability Authority into the practice of the assessment of need under the Disability Act...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    1259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to change the means test for the higher education grant to take into account outgoings such as mortgages and so on; and if she will...
  • Education and Training Provision
    1260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department reneged on a decision to provide school transport to students from the Balbriggan, Balrothery, Laytown and Bettystown...
  • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Provision
    1261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding for transportation for a person with a disability in order to attend a training course (details supplied); and if...
  • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
    1262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether a person (details supplied) is suitable to head a statutory board to assist the victims of church religious orders. [33369/14]
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    1263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the situation with a school (details supplied) in County Cork who were granted funding for a new school in 2011; if her...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    1264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the disproportionate reductions in special needs assistant posts in County Sligo; if she has any concern that...
  • Trade Agreements
    1265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has had any discussions with the Department for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation regarding the inclusion of education in the proposed...
  • School Transport Provision
    1266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a school bus service (details supplied) in County Cork will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Teacher Recruitment
    1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired teachers employed as substitute teachers in primary schools during the school years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. [33379/14]
  • School Placement
    1268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a decision, following consultation with patrons, national associations of parents, recognised school management organisations,...
  • Education Policy
    1269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the ESRI report "Leaving School in Ireland: a longitudinal study of post-school transitions"; and her position regarding the class...
  • School Accommodation
    1271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the situation regarding the building of new school premises for a school (details supplied) in County Cork;...
  • Student Grant Scheme Reform
    1272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reverse the cuts in the third level maintenance grant over the past several years in recognition of the dramatically increasing...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    1273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to the State to ensure a pupil teacher ratio of 15:1 in all primary schools for children aged nine and under, and 20:1 for children...
  • Student Universal Support Ireland Expenditure
    1274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amounts in Student Universal Support Ireland grants issued to students during each of the past five years; the number of students who...
  • State Examinations
    1275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of funds allocated for reform of State exam; if she will provide a breakdown of the way these funds will be managed; and if she will...
  • Third Level Fees
    1276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to the State for funding registration fees for students in September 2013. [33517/14]
  • School Funding
    1278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has conducted any research on payment of voluntary contributions by parents to schools during the past five years; and if she...
  • School Textbooks Rental Scheme
    1279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected cost to the State for introducing a completely free book scheme for primary school students that would not require payment of a...
  • Student Grant Scheme Applications
    1282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding college grant support in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33536/14]
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    1283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the decision to reduce teacher and special needs assistant numbers at St. Michael’s House, Baldoyle, Dublin 13 as a...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    1284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a mechanism available to a mature student to recommence a course at degree level, if they already have a masters qualification, to...
  • School Transport Applications
    1285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    1286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding teachers' pay conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33562/14]
  • Quality and Qualifications Ireland Expenditure
    1287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of any legal counsel who provided services to Quality and Qualifications Ireland since its establishment; the services they provided;...
  • Literacy Levels
    1298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to improve literacy rates in the adult population; the funds allocated to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33621/14]
  • Adult Education
    1301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget allocated to the intensive tuition for adult basic education during each of the past five years; the number of participants during...
  • Back to Education Allowance Applications
    1302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participants on level 3 and level 4 courses through BTEI during each of the past five years. [33625/14]
  • Education Schemes
    1303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participants who availed of tuition through the workplace basic education fund during each of the past five years; the funding...
  • Departmental Funding
    1305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to family literacy programmes; and the number of participants in them during each of the past five years. [33628/14]
  • Third Level Participation
    1306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of access programmes to assist disadvantaged students enter third level during each of the past five years; the number of students...
  • School Patronage
    1307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to assist schools with divestment of patronage from religious orders. [33636/14]
  • Education Policy
    1308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department has drawn on top performing education models, such as Finland, as set out in the programme for Government. [33637/14]
  • School Evaluations
    1310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to require schools to draw five year development plans for their schools and individual teachers. [33639/14]
  • Teacher Training Provision
    1311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes in professional development for maths and science teachers that have taken place since 2012; and any future planned changes. [33640/14]
  • School Evaluations
    1312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to change the system for evaluating schools; and the information she plans to make available to parents. [33641/14]
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no phase 2 apprenticeship course in electrical, available in the Ballyfermot Training Centre, despite 500 apprentice...
  • Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls
    1315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the accommodation crisis for students who are going to university in Dublin, if it has ever been considered that students who are...
  • Literacy Levels
    1316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the national literacy strategy for children and young people with school level targets. [33687/14]
  • Education Policy
    1317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which every school will be required to have a literacy action plan with demonstrable outcomes. [33688/14]
  • School Staffing
    1319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of dedicated literacy mentors working with teachers in disadvantaged primary schools. [33690/14]
  • School Accommodation
    1320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has a target date on which no school will be renting prefabs. [33691/14]
  • Capital Programme Expenditure
    1322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the use of shared educational campuses. [33693/14]
  • Property Transfers
    1323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the negotiations for the transfer of school infrastructure currently owned by 18 religious orders cited in Ryan...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    1324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which she will publish a plan for the implementation of the EPSEN Act 2004. [33695/14]
  • National Educational Psychological Service Staff
    1325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service and when this number will be increased. [33696/14]
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    1326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports currently in place for gifted students. [33697/14]
  • School Patronage
    1327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has commissioned a white paper on divestment of patronage in schools; the persons tasked to draft this paper; the date on which it will...
  • Institutes of Technology
    1328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of the Grangegorman DIT relocation project and the date on which this will be completed. [33699/14]
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    1329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant/financial assistance/bursary available to Irish persons who wish to commence studying a postgraduate in nursing in a university...
  • Educational Disadvantage
    1330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact title of the review of the DEIS scheme that is referred to in the Programme for Government. [33702/14]
  • Student Grant Scheme Payments
    1332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the need to provide extra support for students in third-level education in view of the shortage of...
  • Higher Education Schemes
    1333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an overview of any changes that have taken place to the PhD framework during this Government’s lifetime including any...
  • Higher Education Institutions
    1334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the criteria for assessing liability for fees at third level in order that they are based on residency rather than citizenship...
  • School Transport Provision
    1335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the last pilot programme on school transport was introduced; the total number of pilot programmes in the country; if there was one pilot...
  • School Staffing
    1336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has made plans for extra school accommodation, extra staffing and extra funding for school transport to first level and second...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    1337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific guidelines that the school transport section of her Department applies to amalgamating schools; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Schools Amalgamation
    1338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific guidelines that the school governance section of her Department applies to amalgamating schools; and if she will make a statement...
  • Schools Building Projects Administration
    1341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that the building contract used by her Department in school buildings adequately protects sub-contractors; if she will...
  • Schools Data
    1342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the schools that have less than 100 pupils throughout the State; their patrons; their locations; and if they...
  • School Staffing
    1344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circular used to provide guidance on teacher ratios for schools, small schools, Gaeltacht schools and minority religious ethos schools....
  • School Curriculum
    1345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the development of the digital schools strategy. [33785/14]
  • School Transport Provision
    1346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will add an additional stop to the Mullingar to Kilynon Turin secondary school Bus Éireann route (details supplied); and if she will...
  • Schools Extra Curricular Activities
    1347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to a school (details supplied) to assist in promoting a science, technology engineering and maths after school club; and...
  • Third Level Facilities
    1349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding student accommodation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33852/14]
  • Early Years Strategy Implementation
    1350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to improve early years education in order to improve the rates of disadvantaged students progressing to higher level education; and if...
  • Student Councils Issues
    1351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to get second-level students more involved in policy changes; and the ways in which this will differ from the current set up. [33857/14]
  • Parent and Student Charter
    1352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dates on which she will publish the Students' Charter and the Parents' Charter. [33858/14]
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    1354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which she will introduce legislation to ensure that students in the asylum process are able to avail of higher education grants and...
  • School Staffing
    1355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers and principals expected to retire in 2014 and in 2015; and the plans to address this. [33861/14]
  • School Accommodation
    1357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand the premises of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick due to the rapid population growth in the area; and if she...
  • School Holidays
    1358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the school term starting in August in view of the fact that this cuts short the tourist/holiday term causing a negative effect on...
  • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Establishment
    1359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funds given to Caranua so far; the dates on which the moneys were transferred; the schedule for delivery of outstanding funds. [33887/14]
  • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
    1360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will bring forward her review of the eligibility criteria for applying to Caranua’s funds which is scheduled for 2015. [33888/14]
  • Residential Institutions
    1361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the groups which the CEO of Caranua has met with since its establishment; and the dates on which they have...
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
    1363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people who made applications for funds from Caranua for educational courses and were refused on the basis the cost was over...
  • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
    1364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the external agencies engaged by Caranua; the cost of these services; if the costs of these external services are covered by funds from the...
  • Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration
    1365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the panel arrangements in place for special needs assistants, in view of the fact that SNAs who were made redundant prior to...
  • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
    1367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if staff salaries in Caranua are funded from the €110m allocated to the body or from other Exchequer funds; and if she will make a...
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
    1370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 13,000 plus potential applicants still eligible to apply for support or payments from Caranua have received sufficient information to...
  • School Equipment
    1371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have vending machines in operation; the amount of revenue received by each of these schools for each vending machine;...
  • Capitation Grants
    1372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the cutbacks affecting grants to primary schools over the past seven years; if she plans to start restoring...
  • Schools Building Projects Administration
    1373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to restore the minor works grant paid to primary schools; if so, when same will be paid; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
  • Child Protection
    1374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the work of her Department's representative to the subcommittee of the Interdepartmental Implementation Group on Children...
  • Higher Education Courses Applications
    1378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date in determination of an appeal for higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
  • Schools Amalgamation
    1379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date of the proposed amalgamation of national schools in an area (details supplied) County Cork; and if she will make a...
  • Departmental Contracts Data
    1380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of administrative arrangements, as opposed to contracts for service her Department is a party to; if she will provide in tabular form...
  • School Staffing
    1381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans following pay cuts for teachers in 2011 and 2012 to have pay restored for 2012 graduates to the 2010 salary scale as happened for 2011...
  • Carer's Benefit Applications
    1382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures in her Department for granting carer's leave to persons who require same; if persons are entitled to the full 104 weeks care...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    1383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress in respect of a school building project (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Emergency Works Scheme Funding
    1384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend by her Department on repairing primary school prefabs in Naas, County Kildare, for the new school year 2014-2015; and if she...
  • School Transport Administration
    1386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of the reference to ethos in the school transport scheme, second level, the reason for the use of the term "ethos" in the context of...
  • Early Years Strategy Implementation
    1387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the persons she will appoint to the advisory group on early years education; the date on which the group will be established; and the date on...
  • Third Level Participation
    1388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places in third level institutions; and the number of these places reserved for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. [34065/14]
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    1389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Galway. [34066/14]
  • School Accommodation
    1390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, information on the number of schools still holding classes in prefabricated buildings; and the dates on...
  • Child Care Qualifications
    1391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the percentage of graduates working in early years education from 12% to 60% in accordance with the European Commission...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    1392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the development of a new school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34074/14]
  • Early Child Care Education
    1393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will indicate policy changes relating to the preschool curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34080/14]
  • Alcohol and Drug Awareness Programmes
    1395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to encourage schools to provide alcohol and drug awareness programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34083/14]
  • School Enrolment Policies
    1396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to remove the prescriptive enrolment policies used by secondary schools and replace them with a standardised enrolment policy to be...
  • School Transport Availability
    1397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding pupils from Educate Together primary schools who have applied for free transport to their nearest recognised Educate...
  • Information and Communications Technology Issues
    1398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to deal with cases where schools demand the compulsory use of iPads in view of the fact that parents cannot afford this...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    1399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statutory grants or scholarship available to an Irish resident who wishes to study for a postgraduate qualification in a foreign third level...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    1400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to information publicised by the Irish National Teachers Organisation stating that over 90% of pupils in County...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    1401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a proposed school building project (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Surveys
    1402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the purpose of the primary and post-primary school questionnaire 2014; her views on whether it is very difficult for school principals to...
  • Schools Amalgamation
    1403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received any correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding the closure or amalgamation of a school in Dublin 10; if she...
  • School Curriculum
    1404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to include coding and software development in the ICT curriculum for schools. [34190/14]
  • School Transport Eligibility
    1405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a school transport grant in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will...
  • Third Level Funding
    1406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider reviewing the funding model for third level education with a view to introducing a UK-style student loan system, whereby...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    1407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she considers the additional €4,830 allowance to the third level grants threshold for second or subsequent children adequate,...
  • NAMA Property Sales
    1408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the sale by the National Asset Management Agency of a site at 1-6 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay to the Australian student...
  • School Patronage
    1409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to locate the proposed Educate Together second level school in Carrigaline, County Cork, where there is an existing Educate Together...
  • School Closures
    1410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that there are no further cuts to the daily running costs of schools as it could lead to closures; and if she will make a...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    1411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on learning support and resource provision at primary school level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Staffing
    1412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on room assistance provision at primary school level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34401/14]
  • Public Sector Staff Sick Leave
    1413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on sick leave provisions at preschool and primary school level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Staffing
    1414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Louth has been allocated a second deputy principal when they do not meet the criteria as set...
  • Parent and Student Charter
    1419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the parent and pupil charter; the expected timeline for publication; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Site Acquisitions
    1420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made as to whether a planned new school (details supplied) in County Cork will be located in Carrigaline or south city...
  • Cóiríocht Scoile
    1422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé i gceist aici airgead a dheonú do scoil (sonraí tugtha), de réir an iarratais a rinne siad, chun cuidiú...
  • School Accommodation
    1423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new building for a school (details suppled) in County Kildare; when it is anticipated that the pupils and staff should...
  • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
    1424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made pertaining to an application for home tuition 2014-2015 (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make...
  • Proposed Legislation
    1425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the drafting of the education (admissions to schools) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Student Grant Scheme Administration
    1426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the application process in respect of payment of Student Universal Support Ireland grants (details supplied); her plans to reform...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    1427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry to enable them progress their education; and if she will make a...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    1428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether it would be more appropriate to base eligibility for the school transport scheme on distance from the nearest education...
  • School Transport Provision
    1429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the situation regarding school transport at a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and the alternatives she has put in palace...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    1432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed building project for a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; the current status of this project; when...
  • Student Grant Scheme Applications
    1434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an Student Universal Support Ireland application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17; and if she will...
  • School Transport Scheme
    1435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a grant available to purchase a bicycle under the school transport scheme; if this applies only in rural areas; the amount of this...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    1436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of both principal and deputy principal allowances based on teacher numbers, her plans to give extra allowances to cover the number of...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    1437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the post primary school transport scheme, if the eligibility rule requiring a pupil to live at least 4.8 kilometres from the...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    1439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an educational grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [34763/14]
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    1440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the position regarding school fees for protestant schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34765/14]
  • Capitation Grants
    1441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the position regarding school secretaries and the reduction of their salaries when they are paid by individual schools (details...
  • Weight of Schoolbags
    1442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her policy on school bags and the excessive weight that students in secondary schools are expected to carry; whether she has a health...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    1443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the position regarding the proposed building project for a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; the stage this particular...
  • School Funding
    1444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding fair funding of schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    1445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding pupil-teacher ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34861/14]
  • School Transport Provision
    1446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the transport service to a school (details supplied) in County Cavan will be restored in view of the difficulties caused...
  • Departmental Staff Recruitment
    1447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the total number of new appointments made in her Department and those under her remit since March 2011 to date in 2014, with a...
  • Haddington Road Agreement Implementation
    1448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the number of public sector employees under her remit who are subject to a freeze on their increment payment in 2014; and if she will...
  • Departmental Staff Redeployment
    1449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the number of civil servants, public servants and semi-state employees in her Department on career break at the time of the...
  • Gaelscoileanna Issues
    1450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é an staid maidir le Gaelcholáiste Phort Láirge faoi láthair. [34156/14]

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