Written answers

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

  • School Transport Data
    370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the years for which calculations with regard to the school transport value for money review in 2011 were...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why there is a disparity between here and Northern Ireland in the case of a person who is unable to qualify for a mechanics course through SOLAS...
  • Summer Works Scheme Applications
    372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will grant an application by a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme, given that the works listed need to be carried out...
  • Schools Building Projects Applications
    373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a promised new building (details supplied), including if she has announced a preferred tenderer; when construction will begin and...
  • Health and Safety
    374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to support a matter (details supplied) regarding the Vocational Education Committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8046/16]
  • Summer Works Scheme Applications
    375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) in County Laois for essential works that are needed in the interest of the safety of...
  • Quality and Qualifications Ireland
    376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that Quality and Qualifications Ireland has been holding briefings on the new engagement process for validating new and existing...
  • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
    377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide funding for a wall at a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [8093/16]
  • Special Educational Needs Staff
    378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) will lose a Special Needs Assistant during 2016; and if the matter will be reviewed immediately and the...
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an additional salary payment to primary teachers who qualified in earlier years and have recently completed and obtained an honours...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new site and new premises for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8148/16]
  • Irish Language
    381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from her Department will agree to meet with representatives of a school (details supplied) in order to provide them with new advice...
  • School Funding
    382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide funding to a school (details supplied) which is applying to become the Foroige Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship; and if she will...
  • Land Transfers
    383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will implement the process, including valuation, of the disposal of her Departments lands at Ashbourne, County Meath, for the purpose of...
  • Teacher Training Provision
    384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will introduce training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, for teachers in schools (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • School Enrolments
    385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 721, 722 and 723 of 14 April 2016, to name the schools which have some spare capacity and the school...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will provide funding for a replacement school at a location (details supplied) County Galway for students with intellectual...
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her progress in providing of an Educate Together School in Claregalway, County Galway; if she has identified and acquired a site; if not, her...
  • Special Educational Needs Staff
    388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant can continue working while studying to qualify as a primary student teacher on the distance learning course run by a...
  • School Transport Tendering
    389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1262 of 22 September 2015, she will provide details of the list of registration numbers of the...
  • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
    391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to investigate and address allegations that Caranua has suspended the awards to certain applicants for housing assistance, stating that the award...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the provision of a new secondary school for the Malahide and Portmarnock area of County Dublin, as announced in November...
  • Summer Works Scheme Applications
    396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the processing of applications for the summer works scheme 2016-2017; when she expects her Department to notify...
  • School Placement
    397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will receive an appropriate school place for the coming 2016-2017 school year. [8296/16]
  • Schools Building Projects
    398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the provision of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a new school building for a school (details supplied); when construction is expected to commence; and if she will make a...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approximate cost that would be associated with changing the reappointment level of a second classroom teacher on island schools to eight...
  • Substance Abuse Prevention Education
    401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policies and programmes on prevention and education in relation to drugs and alcohol for young persons; if there is dedicated staff in her...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a person in a school (details supplied) will receive resource hours from 1 September 2016; and if she will make a...
  • Summer Works Scheme Administration
    403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the summer works scheme, as to when successful schools will be notified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8388/16]
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of the 24 acre site in Claregalway, County Galway, purchased by her Department for a joint school campus which has been ear-marked...
  • School Transport Provision
    405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 551 and 552 of 15 December 2015, if she will confirm the first time Bus Éireann informed her...
  • School Staff
    407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers in primary and secondary schools who were on unpaid leave for the years 2010 to 2015; the number who received payment for...
  • Special Educational Needs
    409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the education system caters for pupils with exceptional ability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8443/16]
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans, if any, to ensure that new teachers receive the same rate of payment as their older colleagues; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Irish Sign Language
    411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that Irish sign language is taught in post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8451/16]
  • Site Acquisitions
    412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 707 of 14 April 2016, if she will provide details of the vacant sites listed. [8460/16]
  • Departmental Correspondence
    415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the correspondence regarding staffing, building and resources issues in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Physical Education Facilities
    416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of second level schools that do not have a physical education hall. [8488/16]
  • Autism Support Services
    417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of autism spectrum disorder unit places at secondary level in an area (details supplied) in County Kildare where...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reduce the required number of years that an applicant needs to have been a resident here, for the previous five years prior to...

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