Written answers

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Department of Education and Skills

 
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the widespread concerns of boards of management and parents' associations of smaller fee-charging schools...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of a school (details supplied) in County Galway on its application to build an extension and remove...
  • Minor Works Scheme Restoration
    16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to a permanent restoration of the minor works grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37962/14]
  • Educational Disadvantage
    17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the requirements needed for primary schools currently holding a DEIS 2 status, to be upgraded to a DEIS 1 status; when the last review of the...
  • Action Plan on Bullying
    18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the implementation of the updated and comprehensive anti-bullying policy; if the inspectorate section of her...
  • Research and Development Funding
    19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that it is good policy to ask research students from the humanities to compete on an equal footing with those from economics and the...
  • Third Level Charges
    20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the high costs incurred by students undertaking gaeltacht placements as part of third level degrees. [37918/14]
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is fully committed to previous guarantees provided on reducing class sizes as a priority in view of the extent of the reports into smaller...
  • Private Schools
    22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to concerns of parents of children in fee-charging schools that further cuts to funding in their sector...
  • School Accommodation
    23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Dublin may expect to move into the permanent building allocated by her Department, in view of the fact...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1258 of 17 September 2014, if she will provide further details regarding the manner in which the new model...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she review the pupil teacher ratio for small rural schools in the upcoming budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37958/14]
  • School Costs
    26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure schools report to her Department the level of voluntary contributions they receive from parents; and if she will make a...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she plans to take to alleviate the problem of large class sizes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37965/14]
  • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
    28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a derogation to the public sector hiring embargo for education and training boards, ETBs, that are experiencing a dearth of...
  • State Examinations Reviews
    29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on reform of the junior certificate, teachers correcting the junior certificate work of their own students, schools providing their own...
  • Special Educational Needs Staffing
    30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will abolish the cap on special needs assistants numbers and allocate resources based on need in accordance with the EPSEN Act 2004. [37928/14]
  • Autism Support Services
    31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans that more detailed information guidelines for parents and guardians of children and young persons with autism spectrum disorder will be...
  • State Examinations
    32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the situation where students are hospitalised during their leaving certificate examinations, with a view to seeing, if...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects to be in a position to address the ongoing issue of class sizes-pupil-teacher ratios and special needs teachers...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to anomalies within the Student Universal Support Ireland procedures for assessing independent students; her plans...
  • Bullying in Schools
    35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which school bullying remains an issue throughout the country; the extent to which her Department continues to receive up to date...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the cost of the archaeological dig at the site of Coláiste Mhuire, Buttevant, County Cork. [37874/14]

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