Written answers
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Department of Education and Skills
- Schools Building Projects
508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the annual number of direct jobs and indirect jobs that the school build capital programme has created... - School Services Staff
509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to recognise grant paid school secretaries as public servants; if the differences in conditions of employment between such secretaries... - Schools Building Projects Status
510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a new national (details supplied) school in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2255/15] - Apprenticeship Programmes
512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if construction-related apprenticeships can be taken up on public or private projects in the State awarded to non-resident contractors. [2259/15] - Special Educational Needs Staffing
513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an increased allocation of special needs support for new entrants which... - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on amending legislation regarding the assessment of income of parents and students attending college and seeking grant assistance; and... - School Enrolments
515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an examination by her Department of the capacity of existing schools in an area (details supplied) in County Kildare; if a... - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student grant application was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement... - Departmental Properties
517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all land and sites owned by her Department in the east Cork area (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Institutes of Technology
518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to date of the proposed amalgamation for Cork IT and Tralee IT; if there is a specific budget for this work; the timeframe for... - Departmental Staff Retirements
519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny regarding their application to retire on grounds of... - Student Support Schemes
520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are grants or other forms of financial assistance available to help persons meet the costs of part-time study; and if she will make a... - Departmental Expenditure
521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by her Department on special advisers for each of the past four years; the way this compares to the four years, 2007 to 2010;... - Technological Universities
523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the development of the proposed technological university in the south east. [2547/15] - Schools Building Projects Expenditure
524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount, across all funding streams, spent on modernisation, refurbishment, and improvement works on schools (details supplied) in County... - School Accommodation
525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has completed a study of the future accommodation needs at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare in view of its... - Summer Works Scheme Administration
526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will announce the school summer work scheme in order that boards of management can plan ahead for their improvement works in the summer... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm funding for an autism support unit for County Longford in respect of which contact has been made with her Department; and if... - Teacher Recruitment
529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she is taking to ensure retired and unqualified teachers are not hired as substitute teachers ahead of newly qualified teachers. [2566/15] - School Enrolments
530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow with specific reference to any decisions taken on the location and... - Education Campuses
531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the planned development of an education campus in Carrigaline, County Cork; the work that has been completed and is... - Language School Accreditation
532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the requirements for language schools in view of the recent court ruling on language school accreditation; and if she will make a statement on... - Educational Disadvantage
533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the ongoing evalutation of DEIS and of the research of DEIS that was announced at a seminar in May 2014, which aims to... - Schools Refurbishment
534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the amount of money that has been allocated to schools (details supplied) since 2007 under the summer works... - Schools Building Projects Status
536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's plans for the funding of extensions in respect of schools (details supplied) in County Dublin; when her Department's plans will... - Student Grant Scheme Payments
537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who were awarded Student Universal Support Ireland grants for 2014/2015 who had not yet received payments on 14 January... - School Staffing
539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish the staffing schedule for primary schools for 2015/2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2695/15] - School Accommodation
540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval for schools to build additional classrooms to cater for planned increases in teacher numbers in September 2015 has been notified to... - Schools Administration
541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's official position on multigrade classrooms in schools and the research and evidence it uses to inform this position. [2698/15] - School Accommodation
542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional accommodation works will be provided in the case of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement... - Special Educational Needs Staffing
543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when appropriate special needs assistant support will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she... - National Educational Psychological Service Administration
544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2756/15] - School Transport Provision
545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision for transport for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 attending a special needs school in Rathfarnham,... - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Student Universal Support Ireland disregards mortgage interest supplement when assessing entitlement to grants. [2788/15] - Teachers' Remuneration
548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reinstate the qualification allowances for post-primary teachers or to otherwise redress the inequality that exists between... - Schools Building Projects Status
549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in relation to funding for school extensions in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; if she will prioritise... - Special Educational Needs Staffing
550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the appointments will be made regarding a submission (details supplied) in view of the delay causing problems for the classes involved; and...
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