Written answers

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Department of Education and Skills

 
  • Industrial Disputes
    121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the scheduled teachers' strike on junior certificate reforms. [3371/15]
  • Value for Money Reviews
    123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the value for money review of small rural schools will be published; the reason for the delay in doing so; and if she will make a statement...
  • Educational Disadvantage
    124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to include schools built in disadvantaged areas after the commencement of the DEIS programme in the programme; when such schools are...
  • Language Schools
    127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has had discussions with the Department of Justice and Equality on the matter of the recent High Court ruling on English language schools;...
  • Site Acquisitions
    128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on site acquisitions for the provision of two new primary schools (details supplied) in Midleton, County Cork;...
  • School Guidance Counsellors
    129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied with the current system regarding guidance counselling services in second level schools, in view of the fact that since 2011...
  • Schools Data
    130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will demonstrate the figures which her Department is relying on to determine forward planning in north Kildare, in particular with regard...
  • Departmental Properties
    131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adequate funding will be provided to maximise the potential of the apprenticeship training centre in Mount Lucas, County Westmeath; the rent...
  • Language Schools
    132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will be taking following the recent court decision in relation to language schools; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Teacher Training Provision
    133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of restoring the grant for student teachers' attendance at Gaeltacht courses; if she has carried out an assessment of the impact of this...
  • Schools Building Projects Administration
    134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a cost benefit analysis has been carried out on the use of public private partnnerships to build schools; the number of such projects in the...
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the pay conditions for new teachers and the lack of qualification allowances for new post-primary teachers; if she will...
  • Capitation Grants
    136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will restore the capitation grant for primary schools to its previous level to help the survival of these schools; and if she will make a...
  • Physical Education
    137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the report Schools Fitness Challenge 2015 that shows that a high number of 15 to 16 year old boys show early onset of heart...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question no 177 of 2 October 2014, the further progress, in the provision of new schools in Carrigtwohill, County Cork...
  • School Curriculum
    139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on having transition year used for a series of pre/mini apprenticeship courses allowing students to better explore their prospective...
  • School Accommodation
    140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views regarding Kildare Wicklow Education Training Board's failure to meet parents of pupils in a school (details supplied) in County...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she proposes to address concerns that have been expressed regarding the school profiling element of the proposed new special needs model;...
  • Teacher Training Places
    142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties in getting teachers to agree to facilitate a student for a ten-week teaching placement in...
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address an anomaly in the process of the abolition of allowances from new beneficiaries from January 2011 which has left a small...
  • Schools Data
    145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her views with regard to the primary online database of students personal public service numbers and other personal information; the...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the student grant scheme in order that mortgage repayments on the family home are considered in the means test for grant...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when building works on schools (details supplied) in counties Leitrim and Roscommon will commence; when both new schools are scheduled for...
  • School Staffing
    148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse, partially, if not fully, the small school pupil requirement thresholds announced in budget 2012 in view of the improving...
  • School Enrolments
    149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the extent to which she is aware of difficulties arising from the school enrolment process at various schools throughout the country,...
  • School Staffing Appeals Mechanism
    150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will put in place an appeals mechanism to allow isolated small schools appeal their staffing allocation based on their geographic...
  • School Guidance Counsellors
    151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down her plans to provide schools with ring-fenced resource hours for the employment of those holding a recognised qualification in...
  • School Staffing
    152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 1 July 2014 to detail the number of relief teaching days allocated to teachers on a departmental...
  • Bullying in Schools
    153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the extent to which her Department continues to monitor the incidents of school bullying; if she is conscious of the fact that a...
  • School Staffing
    154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to support the valuable contribution played by schools within rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the reason the Government has breached the terms of the Haddington Road agreement with the non-payment or delayed payment of...
  • School Enrolments
    156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the situation whereby more than 120 applicants cannot access a place in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15, in...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the progress that is being made to have training in the hospitality sector included in the redesign of the...

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