Written answers

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

  • Broadband Service Provision
    125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand the provision of high-quality broadband to all primary schools, as is currently the case for secondary schools. [11340/16]
  • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Allowances
    126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of re-instating the SOLAS training allowance for 2017 in tabular form. [11504/16]
  • Scoileanna Gaeltachta
    127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le scoil nua atá beartaithe do Ghaelscoil na gCeithre Máistrí, Baile Dhún...
  • School Funding
    128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has approved an application for a grant from a school (details supplied); if he will issue formal notification; if not, the reason for the...
  • School Accommodation
    129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will issue a decision on an application for additional accommodation by a primary school in west County Cork; and if he will make a...
  • School Guidance Counsellors
    130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the report on the findings of the 2015-2016 national audit of guidance counselling practice in second level schools and colleges of...
  • School Transport Administration
    131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scientific or verification-based monitoring he has in place to ensure that State aid or payments to Bus Éireann for school transport are...
  • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
    132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will accept an appeal by a person (details supplied) who never received a notice of determination from Student Universal Support Ireland;...
  • Visiting Teacher Service
    133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review into the visiting teacher service, including when he will publish it; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Institutes of Technology
    134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of institutes of technology which are running a deficit in tabular form. [11227/16]
  • Institutes of Technology Expenditure
    135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of its budget that Waterford Institute of Technology spends on salaries. [11228/16]
  • School Accommodation
    138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the technical examination his Department carried out on the site of a school (details supplied) showed that the best option to facilitate the...
  • Education Funding
    140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the planned course of action in relation to the Cassells report on higher education funding, which was presented to his Department...
  • School Guidance Counsellors
    141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent findings of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, particularly the finding that since the 2011-2012 school year, in...
  • Special Educational Needs
    142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in mainstream education who have Down's syndrome; if he is aware of the implications for future resource provision and...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a special needs assistant. [11259/16]
  • Technological Universities
    144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reintroduce the Technological Universities Bill; the number of technological universities that will be created as a result of this...
  • Schools Amalgamation
    145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of two schools (details supplied) which wish to amalgamate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11291/16]
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) which is awaiting a grant for an extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11297/16]
  • Foirne Scoile
    148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé sásta faomhadh a thabhairt láithreach do scoil chun cúntóir riachtanas speisialta a fhostú...
  • School Funding
    150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to sanction the ancillary funding a school (details supplied) has requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11334/16]
  • School Guidance Counsellors
    151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the numbers of guidance counsellors employed in secondary schools in each of the years 2012 to 2016 to date; when he will reverse the cuts...
  • School Staff
    152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review the request made by a school (details supplied) to appoint an additional teacher in September 2016; and if he will make a statement on...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of the replacement new school buildings for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Institutes of Technology
    155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the staff retention levels in Waterford Institute of Technology; his plans and timescale for completing the engineering block on its grounds; and...
  • Educational Disadvantage
    156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why his Department declined an application by a school (details supplied) for a pathways to literacy course; if he is aware that this school has...
  • Summer Works Scheme Applications
    157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider an application by a school (details supplied) to upgrade out-of-date science laboratories; if he will fund it under the summer works...
  • Teaching Council of Ireland
    158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 17 June 2015, if he has made a decision on a matter; if not, when he will; and if he will make a...
  • Summer Works Scheme Applications
    159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to approve an application by a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11401/16]
  • Summer Works Scheme Data
    160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department provided funding for playgrounds under the recently announced summer works scheme; if not, if he will provide funding for this...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 23 September 2015, the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Properties
    162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11418/16]
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of grant assistance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11446/16]
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to end pay discrimination against newly qualified teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11448/16]
  • School Accommodation Provision
    165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to expedite and grant an application by a school (details supplied) for funding for an additional classroom as a matter of urgency, given that...
  • Schools Refurbishment
    166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will carry out maintenance works on a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11476/16]
  • School Staff
    167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the appeal of a decision by a school (details supplied) regarding an extra teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Physical Education Facilities
    169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to support and expedite the provision of a physical education hall in a school (details supplied). [11487/16]
  • National Council for Special Education
    173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs to date associated with the various reports the National Council of Special Education has published; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Ombudsman's Remit
    174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the potential remit of an ombudsman for education, as committed to under the programme for Government; when he will establish this office; if its...
  • Teachers' Professional Development
    175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of mandatory continuous professional development required for teachers in relation to the education of children with special...
  • Special Educational Needs Data
    176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours of resource teaching or special needs assistant supports requested by schools, but not granted, in tabular form; and if he...
  • Third Level Data
    177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of third level graduates with level 8, level 9 and level 10 qualifications who are currently unemployed in tabular form; the number of...
  • Education Policy
    180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to invest in single sex schools or if his future emphasis is on co-educational schools; the statistics he uses to forecast the need for...
  • Ministerial Priorities
    181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his priority legislation for the coming year, as outlined to the Chief Whip in response to her recent correspondence; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Strategies
    182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has begun work on his Department's new three-year strategy; when he will announce it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11624/16]
  • Pension Provisions
    183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired staff from his Department who are deemed to be overpaid due to the payment of a supplementary pension in the past five...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a school (details supplied); for the development of the building which is no longer fit for purpose, and for staffing from 2017...
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will inform a school (details supplied) of a location, given that it is outgrowing its current location; and if he will make a statement...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plan of action for training for apprenticeships for trades, given the urgent need for certain skills and to build houses in the next number...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to allocate a special needs assistant to a person (details supplied). [11669/16]
  • Energy Efficiency
    188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider installing solar panels in schools as a form of energy for heating and water and as a potential cost saving; and if he will make a...
  • State Examinations
    189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why he has declined a reader to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11706/16]
  • Education and Training Boards
    190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to revert to this Deputy on a matter regarding a secondary school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11716/16]
  • Third Level Institutions
    191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that a staff member at the National University of Ireland, Galway has sought protection under the whistleblower legislation after...
  • School Transport Availability
    194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a school bus service is not available for a school (details supplied) with delivering equality of opportunity in schools status, given that...
  • School Placement
    195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sufficient school places are available to accommodate all the students who are to start junior infants in Greystones in September 2016; the...
  • School Funding
    199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to issue the final letter of terms and conditions to a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim to facilitate getting the works under way....
  • School Transport
    200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to a parliamentary reply in which the Bus Éireann auditors stated "the statement of account has been prepared, in all material...
  • State Examinations
    201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he is ensuring that students sitting State examinations are treated in a fair and equitable manner with regard to reasonable accommodations;...
  • Schools Provision
    202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review the data on demographics in south County Kildare on the requirement for an additional secondary level school there; and if he will make...
  • School Curriculum
    203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to include cardiopulmonary resuscitation education in the junior certificate curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11853/16]

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