Written answers
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Department of Education and Skills
- School Bus Fleet
494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school buses that were tested for safety in the past 12 months; and the percentage of buses that passed those tests. [5729/15] - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the cuts to special education needs provision that have been imposed in recent years, in particular the 15% cut to resource... - School Accommodation
498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional accommodation will be provided in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the... - Special Educational Needs Expenditure
499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding proposed cuts in funding special education needs; and if she will make a statement on the... - Apprenticeship Programmes
500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the apprenticeship council will provide her with a report of proposals for a new way of developing apprenticeships; and if she will make a... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the proposal from Inclusion Ireland regarding a new model of allocation of hours, which will move from a diagnosis-based... - School Enrolments
503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the ongoing issue of a lack of school places for primary schools in Dublin South, where the demand for new entrants into... - Departmental Correspondence
504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 480 of 25 November 2014 (details supplied), when a final response will issue; and if she will make a... - Third Level Fees
505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected cost of abolishing fees for part-time postgraduate courses. [5649/15] - Departmental Expenditure
506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full cost of the archaeological dig in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [5654/15] - School Enrolments
507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she shares the views of her predecessor regarding the continuance of the national school system (details supplied). [5659/15] - School Accommodation
508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve an application for funding for a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath for additional accommodation under phase 2, in... - Schools Building Projects Status
509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the building in which a school (details supplied) in County Dublin is currently housed could be re-purposed as a special educational school... - Special Educational Needs Expenditure
510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the cuts affecting special educational needs children as a matter of priority (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Schools Refurbishment
511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the current need for infrastructural improvement in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal;... - School Curriculum
512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures currently in place to promote youth awareness of politics and current affairs. [5731/15] - Physical Education
513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the merits of expanding the University of Limerick’s health and sciences faculty's third study into flexibility and... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason schools (details supplied) in County Carlow were not sanctioned for units for children with autism in view of the fact they have... - School Accommodation
515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the gross under provision of primary school places in the Goatstown area, Dublin 14, where the local schools... - Pupil Data Collection
516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the matter of schools collecting the personal public service, PPS, numbers of their pupils; if this is being done to comply with a... - Stay Safe Programme
517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the names, roll numbers and locations of all the schools that indicated to her Department, in respect of the 2012... - School Staffing
518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the date for the issuing of P60s for 2014 to special needs assistants. [5802/15] - Site Acquisitions
519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a suitable site has been identified for a new school (details supplied) in County Donegal; if her Department plans to engage with the school's... - Departmental Programmes
520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on concerns (details supplied) regarding teachers in schools, other than in respect of Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools,... - School Staffing
521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an appeal lodged by a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath regarding a second teacher. [5824/15] - Pupil-Teacher Ratio
522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to ensure that the current pupil-teacher ratio in our schools is improved; her plans to ensure that children with... - Student Grant Scheme Applications
523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the Student Universal Support Ireland application grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County... - Departmental Expenditure
524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding her Department has spent on new school buildings in Dublin 9 and Dublin 11 since 2011; and if she will make a statement on... - Home Tuition Scheme
528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 488 of 27 January 2015, where she stated that the home tuition was operated in a consistent and equitable... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding special educational needs provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5887/15] - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Student Universal Support Ireland can assess a person (details supplied) as an independent student, in view of their circumstances; her plans... - Student Grant Scheme Applications
531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow a late student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary in view of the personal... - Schools Designation
532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of schools (details supplied) in Dublin 10 have been provided with pre-approval to... - Child Abuse
534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the State's legal reasoning (details supplied) behind the decision to only allow those who were abused after the date a complaint was made... - Schools Amalgamation
536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans regarding the much needed amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Kerry; and when will funding be provided for such works.... - Departmental Records
537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on concerns (details supplied) regarding information being sought by her Department. [5973/15] - School Staffing
538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools operating with four teachers or less. [5978/15] - Physical Education Facilities
539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that currently do not have a physical education hall. [5979/15] - Schools Building Projects Status
540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the building project in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13; if planning permission for the... - School Enrolments Data
541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that her Department is planning for sufficient school places in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 13, in view of the... - School Accommodation
542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount her Department has spent on the current building in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13, since the school opened; the... - Schools Building Projects Applications
543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications currently in the schools building programme; and the number of applications currently progressing through... - School Curriculum
544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, subjects in schools; and her further plans to promote them... - Policies for Smaller Schools
545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the introduction of cluster policies for small schools as set out in the Irish Primary Principals' Network's report entitled New... - Teacher Exchange Scheme
546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the teacher exchange programme to allow teachers to take up permanent posts if available; and if she will make a statement on... - Schools Review
547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received the value for money review of small rural schools; the date on which it will be published; the reasons for the... - Education Policy
548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department rural-proofs education policy. [6019/15] - School Transport Provision
549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined the possibility of introducing a grant scheme to purchase bicycles under the school transport scheme; and if... - Education Expenditure
550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding education issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6066/15] - Medical Council Accreditation
551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the involvement she and her Department have had with the request for Medical Council accreditation from the Royal College of Surgeons, Bahrain;... - State Examinations
552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students are now required to answer all the questions on the mathematics paper in the junior certificate examination, and no longer... - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if recognition will be provided by Student Universal Support Ireland towards insolvency arrangements in the calculation of reckonable income for... - Education and Training Boards
554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when guidelines will be issued by her Department to education and training boards on the appointment of representatives to school boards of... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposed new criteria for determining the allocation of additional educational resources are... - Pupil-Teacher Ratio
557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the current pupil-teacher ratio cuts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6130/15] - School Funding
558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 547 of 3 February 2015, the criteria for a school to receive assistance for the refurbishment or... - School Services Staff
559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the Department of Social Protection, on behalf of school secretaries, who have to sign on every time they take holidays,... - Broadband Service Provision
560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools and the number of secondary schools that are currently without access to broadband; the number of these schools...
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