• Residential Institutions
  1190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views regarding the applications made by third parties on behalf of persons seeking to access the Caranua Scheme, where there is an...
• School Transport Tendering (1 comment)
  1191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine and amend the new tendering process adapted by Bus Éireann which is causing concern to parents of special needs...
• School Transport Provision
  1193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to an individual (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, who currently cannot attain a place on a school bus...
• School Transport Administration
  1195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Bus Éireann did not commence the school bus service until 31 August 2015, given that some schools opened prior to 31 August...
• Teaching Qualifications
  1196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the ability of a college (details supplied) to continue to receive recognition from the Teaching Council for...
• School Accommodation
  1197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a primary school (details supplied) in County Galway will be provided with resources to construct a special-needs education room; and if she...
• Higher Education Institutions
  1198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 30 June 2015, if she is aware that the institutes of technology are not following the provisions of...
• Teachers' Remuneration
  1200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary school teachers receiving additional pay allowances because they are qualified to Masters level; and if she...
• Child Abuse
  1201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken, or will take, to address the allegations made by a person (details supplied) in County Clare to her Department that...
• University Legal Fees
  1204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal costs to date of University College Dublin in Record No. 2006/07275 (Circuit Court) and Record No. 2007 52 CA (High Court). [30576/15]
• Early Childhood Care Education Standards
  1205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce a single care and education rolling quality programme (details supplied), with close monitoring and regulation,...
• Child Abuse
  1206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding persons who were in foster care, and the Redress Scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
• School Accommodation
  1207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the boundary wall of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Student Councils
  1208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have student councils; the number of schools that do not have student councils; the cost of running the student...
• Schools Data
  1209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will announce the location of the new Educate Together secondary school to serve the Stepaside/Rathfarnham area, Dublin which is due to...
• Schools Amalgamation
  1210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30716/15]
• School Transport Provision
  1211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding eligibility for concessionary school transport to primary schools for children who live outside the catchment area of the...
• Student Support Schemes
  1213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding Student Universal Support Ireland grants; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Teachers' Remuneration
  1214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the Teaching Conciliation Council will make a decision on whether teaching service in another EU Member State before taking up...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  1215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding Special Needs Assistant hours in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement...
• Debt Collection
  1217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines, recommendations or regulations in place for Universities in the use of debt collection agencies in the collection of unpaid fees...
• School Accommodation
  1218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date regarding extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30806/15]
• Third Level Fees
  1219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the situation for returning Irish emigrants who have to pay full fees for college courses because they have been out of...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will progress the development of an Irish secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  1221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will re-introduce the CERT Course for Apprentice Training for the Hospitality Industry, and locate the new training centre in Killarney,...
• Student Accommodation
  1222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expand the provision of student accommodation to make accommodation affordable for students; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Third Level Costs
  1223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the Irish League of Credit Unions' 2015 report on third level education; if she will take measures to improve the financial...
• Home Tuition Scheme Provision
  1230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding home tuition for a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30990/15]
• School Relocation
  1231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a proposal for a project (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• School Accommodation
  1232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a permanent extension is likely to be approved for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare with particular reference to urgent...
• School Costs
  1234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce legislation governing service charges imposed by secondary schools on students and their families at the commencement of...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  1235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports which will be put in place to allow a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 to remain at their current school; if she will...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for additional devolved grant funding by a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be processed; and if she will make...
• School Accommodation
  1237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the total number of prefabs that were rented in County Mayo in the years 2010 to 2014, that are no longer...
• Schools Establishment
  1238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the proposed new second level school in Kinnegad, County Westmeath. [31046/15]
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 which has been closed for three years because of damage; if she will...
• Physical Education Facilities
  1242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for capital funding by a post-primary school (details supplied) in Cork city for a sports hall; when a...
• School Funding
  1243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding for primary schools and post-primary schools in counties Longford and Westmeath for the period from 2008 to date in 2015,...
• School Guidelines on Obesity
  1244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 14 October 2014, the progress on the development of guidance for schools on the issue of obesity;...
• School Transport Administration
  1245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Bus Éireann cannot go off-route to collect school children under the school transport...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has identified a site for the new Cork Educate Together Secondary School, which her Department has indicated is intended to be...
• School Staffing
  1247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the loss of a teacher at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; if she will take cognisance of a petition (details...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  1248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a special needs assistant for a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Home Tuition Scheme
  1249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons from Dublin 24 in receipt of the home school tuition grant; and the number of applicants who proceed to tuition. [31209/15]
• Home Tuition Scheme Administration
  1250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the home school tuition grant, the length of time taken from approval to payment of the grant. [31210/15]
• Home Tuition Scheme Funding
  1251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of funding allocated for the home school tuition grant that is being used. [31211/15]
• Departmental Programmes
  1252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a Departmental scholarship (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31214/15]
• Teaching Council of Ireland
  1253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding registration with the Irish Teaching Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
  1254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Caranua and an individual application to the Residential Institutions Redress Board. [31227/15]
• Information and Communications Technology
  1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 318 of 5 November 2013 and 1398 of 17 September 2014, regarding the financial pressure on parents in...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  1269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for refusal a special needs unit to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and the level of special needs a school must reach...
• Schools Establishment
  1270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to open a second level Educate Together school in Swords, County Dublin in view of the fact that there are three Educate Together...
• Student Grant Scheme Administration
  1271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for including rental accommodation scheme and rent supplement payments as means for the purposes of assessing eligibility for Student...
• Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
  1272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 24 March 2014 and 268 of 15 April 2014, in which she stated that a facility (details supplied) was...
• School Guidance Counsellors
  1273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding guidance counsellors in schools here; the numbers employed for each year since 2012; when the cuts which have been...
• Child Abuse
  1275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a response to matters (details supplied) raised by persons who have taken cases having been victims of abuse in schools...
• School Transport Administration
  1279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school bus services that were due to be withdrawn this year and where the decision was reversed due to the fact that adequate...
• Third Level Data
  1280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of participation of men and women, respectively, in third level education in each of the past ten years; and if she will make a...
• Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
  1281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the approach Student Universal Support Ireland takes to processing applications for grant assistance when a person has...
• Home Tuition Scheme Provision
  1283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of home tuition grants paid in respect of children aged between two and a half and three years of age who have been diagnosed on the...
• Emergency Works Scheme Applications
  1284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the leaking roof in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make funds available to the school for this...
• Departmental Expenditure
  1285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the money allocated by her Department for building maintenance in primary schools in the years 2011 to 2014, inclusive, and for the first half...
• School Transport Provision
  1287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a child (details supplied) in County Cork; the way a child may avail of a school transport scheme for a bus when...
• Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
  1289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students refused the Student Universal Support Ireland grants during 2014 to 2015 who were Irish citizens refused on habitual...
• Third Level Qualifications Recognition
  1292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a request for documentation by a person (details supplied); the assistance her Department may be able to provide to...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  1293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant will be returned immediately to a child (details supplied) in County Kildare given that SNA support was previously...
• Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
  1294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is encountering difficulties in...
• School Guidance Counsellors
  1295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans in budget 2016 to reinstate and provide funding for guidance counsellors in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• School Equipment
  1297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding to equip a room for the teaching of technology post-junior certificate by a school (details supplied)...
• Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
  1298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full comprehensive list of documents that are acceptable to Student Universal Support Ireland to prove that an applicant was living...
• School Placement
  1299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a final response will issue to previous correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31574/15]
• Scéim Iompair Scoile
  1300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth nach bhfuil saorthaisteal ar fáil chuig Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí do dhaltaí atá cáilithe le...
• Schools Refurbishment
  1301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will be given to the upgrade and extension of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay with this...
• After-School Support Services
  1302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department supports the introduction of out-of-hours care service provision in primary schools; if her Department is aware of the number...
• School Playgrounds
  1303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding to make a school yard safe for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Schools Administration
  1304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the requirement of any organisation wishing to provide additional services or classes within a primary school to obtain a...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a design team will be appointed to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31612/15]
• School Staffing
  1306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the allocation of a third teacher for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
• Schools Health and Safety
  1307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on discussions held between the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry and development...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on progress with regard to the development of a new school (details supplied) in County Donegal; when planning...
• Schools Building Projects Applications
  1309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress with a submission by the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry for a new school due to the...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected commencement date for construction of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if the tender process is complete; if all the...
• Schools Refurbishment
  1313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on previous correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31667/15]
• School Curriculum
  1314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the precise role of physical education in the new junior cycle short course of well-being; the exact allocation of hours that will be given to...
• Special Educational Needs Staffing
  1315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason special needs assistant contracts of 15 hours are not available to employees in receipt of carer's allowance; and if she will make a...
• Schools Mental Health Strategies
  1317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the elements of the standard curriculum at secondary level that have been implemented to tackle the high rate of teenage suicide; her plans to...
• School Patronage
  1318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when the necessary steps will be taken to enable the education and training boards to become patrons for community national schools....
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason phase 2 of development work on a school (details supplied) in County Dublin has not yet commenced, despite assurances that it would...
• Teaching Qualifications
  1320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding professional registration in respect of a person (detail supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding the building programme of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; the schedule being followed; when...
• Schools Building Projects Administration
  1323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering the development of any new primary and second level schools in the Tallaght, Dublin 24, region; and if she will...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress with regard to the development of the new proposed second level school at Kingswood Heights, Dublin 24; the actions she took...
• Pension Provisions
  1326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of annual pension payments made by her Department that exceed €60,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32003/15]
• School Playgrounds
  1327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Kerry will be grant-aided to purchase a strip of land necessary to provide an adequate and safe...
• Schools Refurbishment
  1328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Kerry will be grant aided to extend the classroom sizes and other facilities to provide adequate...
• School Playgrounds
  1329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Kerry will be grant-aided to purchase a strip of land necessary to provide an adequate and safe...
• Departmental Correspondence
  1332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response will issue to correspondence relating to registration problems of a teacher in a special school (details supplied) in County...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  1333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an individual special needs assistant will be allocated to two preschool children (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
• Third Level Charges
  1336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a private third level institution may charge a student who wishes to defer a further year of a course due to maternity leave a deferral fee...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  1337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to allow unused funding in the education stream budget allocated for a care facility (details supplied) to be ring-fenced and...
• Teachers' Remuneration
  1338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding teachers' pay (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32116/15]
• School Management
  1339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the need for time free from class teaching for primary school principals and allow at least one day a week with substitute...
• Special Educational Needs Staffing
  1340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis upon which a person on an infant part time special needs assistant contract with specified working hours can be asked to undertake...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  1342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to clarify the situation regarding special needs assistant hours to all the professional bodies governing special...
• School Funding
  1343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the current school funding for primary schools from 92 cent per pupil up to the secondary school level rate of...
• Education Expenditure
  1344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding primary education; her plans to address the major concerns raised; and if she will make...
• Teacher Training Provision
  1345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if time spent completing an internship under the JobBridge scheme at a primary school can be counted towards supplementary panel rights for the...
• Pupil-Teacher Ratio
  1346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will continue to pursue primary school smaller class sizes to address the situation whereby class sizes are the highest in the eurozone;...
• Schools Building Projects Applications
  1347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position of an application for an extension by a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position of a school refurbishment programme for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Special Educational Needs Staffing
  1349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants working in schools at both primary and secondary level in counties Galway and Mayo at the beginning of...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  1351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to the piloting of a new system of allocating special educational resources, the assessment and review process that will be...
• School Accommodation
  1352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed project for a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; if she is aware of the urgent need to provide...
• Summer Works Scheme Eligibility
  1353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine a matter (details supplied) regarding building works required at a school in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
• Schools Building Projects Applications
  1354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a library extension for a college (details supplied) in County Limerick; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  1356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a building project in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the timeframe for completion of works;...
• School Curriculum
  1358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours per week that are spent teaching Irish in primary schools. [32323/15]
• Departmental Functions
  1364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of internal audit across her Department; internal audit's relationship with external auditors and audit committees, as well as...
• Departmental Contracts Data
  1365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost to her Department of fees paid to private for-profit companies to provide services, such as consultancy work, recruitment...

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