Written answers
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Department of Education and Skills
- Apprenticeship Programmes
11. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 912 of 4 November 2014, if she will provide further details of the nature of the review being carried out by... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when all articles of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs, EPSEN, Act 2004 will be implemented; if she will provide up-to-date... - Industrial Disputes
14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has met representatives of the locked out bricklayers and builders at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - School Costs
16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a survey carried out by the Irish Primary Principals Network which found that most parents are worse off... - Schools Data
17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one-teacher primary schools in the country in each year since the school year starting September 2011; the number of such schools in... - Minor Works Scheme Restoration
18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the minor works grant has been omitted from the list of grants for primary schools, in view of the fact that a large number of national... - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who apply for Student Universal Support Ireland grants on the basis of illness benefit,... - English Language Training Organisations
20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role her Department is playing in addressing the problems in the regulation of English language schools; the communications she has had with... - Departmental Budgets
21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government to protect front-line services in education; and if she will make a... - Departmental Funding
22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support ChildVision, the National Education Centre for Blind Children, Dublin 9, in 2014-15. [45098/14] - Student Grant Scheme Administration
23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has reviewed the proposal put forward by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to have the Student Universal Support Ireland application... - Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Numbers
24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participants who have enrolled on the VTOS scheme through the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board for the... - Apprenticeship Programmes
25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of the apprenticeship council; their role in the development and implementation of apprenticeships; and if she will make a statement on... - Gaelscoileanna Issues
26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the significant demand for a new Gaelcholáiste in the north Kildare area with parents of over 200 children... - School Staffing
27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be any further alleviation of moratorium on filling posts of responsibility at post-primary level; and if she will make a statement... - Schools Amalgamation
28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will be publishing the value for money report on small primary schools; if she plans to implement its recommendations; and if she will make... - Schools Review
29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in addressing the specific issues of rural schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45089/14] - School Accommodation
30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the progress of the prefab replacement programme; the number of schools that have had prefabs replaced by county; the number... - State Examinations Reviews
31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on junior cycle reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45282/14] - Technological Universities
32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she plans to advance proposals for a technological university in the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45286/14] - Third Level Staff Remuneration
33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the high rates of casualisation and low rates of pay in the third level sector for casual academics; and her plans to address the... - Industrial Disputes
34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has agreed to the meeting requested by building workers and Unite members involved in the dispute at a building project (details supplied);... - School Staffing
35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details on planned changes to staffing schedules in small primary schools, which will increase the appointment-retention figure for a second... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that the school profiling element of the proposed new special needs model has caused deep concern and that many school principals,... - School Staffing
37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her assessment of the impact of the moratorium on filling posts of responsibility at post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the... - School Enrolments
38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with the increase in enrolments in 2015 and for the next number of years her plans to ensure additional capacity, with particular reference to... - Minor Works Scheme Restoration
39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reinstate the minor works grant. [45122/14] - Pupil-Teacher Ratio
40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she will be in a position to improve class sizes in the course of the current year with particular reference to schools... - Broadband Service Provision
41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to improve broadband connectivity in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45285/14] - Disadvantaged Status
42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include a school (details supplied) in County Mayo in the DEIS scheme so that the pupils there will have parity with the pupils in... - English Language Training Organisations
43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to regulate the education of non-EU nationals in the Irish education system, as it appears to be run by a system of agents... - Pupil-Teacher Ratio
44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that class sizes here are the second highest of EU members; to set out her views on the fact that... - Educational Disadvantage
45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide supports for disadvantaged pupils in 2014/15. [45097/14] - Minor Works Scheme Restoration
46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a minor works grant in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45283/14] - Schools Establishment
47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the number of secondary school places in Dublin 15; and her plans to create more places to resolve the shortage that... - Education and Training Boards Expenditure
48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the introduction of a capital fund for publicly-owned facilities and buildings operated wholly or partially by education and... - Teacher Training Provision
49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an up to date assessment on Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht and the reason the Mary Immaculate College in Limerick feels... - Departmental Reports
50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 6 November 2014, if she will put on the record of Dáil Éireann the findings and...
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