Written answers

Wednesday, 20 July 2016

  • Bus Éireann
    116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify what is meant when Bus Éireann states that the Expressway and other businesses of Bus Éireann are kept in separate accounts;...
  • School Transport Administration
    117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the name of the account in the bank, used for school transport funds, and to verify independently of Bus Éireann where its funds...
  • European Globalisation Fund
    118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way workers of a company (details supplied) can access the European globalisation adjustment fund; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of implementing the early childhood care and education access and inclusion model in primary schools nationwide....
  • School Transport
    120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria set for obtaining a concessionary bus ticket for students attending second level schools; the number of these tickets were issued...
  • Student Support Schemes
    121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will restore financial supports for postgraduate students; to what level he intends on restoring the funding; and if he will make a...
  • Student Accommodation
    122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that, in Dublin, the shortage of accommodation together with the cost of available accommodation is resulting in a pattern of...
  • Higher Education Institutions Staff
    123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to take decisive action to ensure that postgraduate students who are hired as academic staff are afforded the necessary working...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is will develop a scheme to encourage Irish persons living abroad to return here and return to education; if he is aware that the current...
  • Special Educational Needs Staff
    125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to alter the manner in which seniority is determined for special needs assistants (details supplied); if he will explain the current...
  • Schools Building Projects Applications
    126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Mayo will soon be issued with a decision in respect of a funding application; if he acknowledges the...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will amend areas of the existing legislation surrounding apprenticeships and traineeships, as per the areas of legislation that have been...
  • Schools Refurbishment
    128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) is expected to move into the refurbished building that has been allocated to it to replace its current...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timescale expected for the construction of extra classrooms for a school (details supplied); if sanction has been given to move classes from...
  • Special Educational Needs
    130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in relation to securing extra places in south County Kildare for children diagnosed with autism scheduled to start primary...
  • School Transport Applications
    131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a transport grant will be approved for a person (details supplied); if he will expedite this grant as it is urgently required; and if he...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that stage 2B of the permanent school building project for a school (details supplied) will be completed without further delay and that...
  • Summer Works Scheme Applications
    133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme 2016 to 2017, or if funding will be approved under the...
  • School Enrolments
    134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to be in a position to continue to make adequate provision in respect of primary and second level school places...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which he expects special needs teaching requirements in all schools throughout County Kildare at primary and second level to be met...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which upgrading of extension works at a school (details supplied) is likely to progress in the near future in line with submissions...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which his Department can assist the school authorities at Newtown, Enfield, County Kildare, in the provision of extra enhanced and...
  • Physical Education Facilities
    139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to be in a position to accede to the request for extra facilities, including a sports hall, at a school (details...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to be in a position to approve an increase in funding offered to a school (details supplied) given the increase in...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that provision is made for an autism unit in one or both of the newly planned secondary schools for the Malahide and Swords...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to advance the construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Cork. [23144/16]
  • School Accommodation Provision
    143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding from a school (details supplied) in County Kildare which is now urgent given that works need to be...
  • School Transport Provision
    145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if action will be taken to retain the school bus service under the primary school transport scheme for a school (details supplied); and if he...
  • Third Level Staff Recruitment
    146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 12 June 2016, the exceptional circumstances that led to an appointment by a university of the...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 8 June 2016, the updated status of an application for funding for additional accommodation for a...
  • School Transport Appeals
    148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal for a transport grant for persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Transport Eligibility
    149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person on a medical card who was previously able to avail of free school travel for two years has now been denied their travel pass...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of implementing one-point reductions in average class size at primary level; and his estimates for reducing the average class...
  • School Staff
    152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully restoring the staffing schedule for retaining and gaining a teacher that applied for schools before 2012 for three,...
  • Capitation Grants
    153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring pre-2010 capitation levels to primary schools; the estimated cost of a 10% increase in the capitation grant to...
  • School Staff
    154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing schools one administration day per week for teaching principals to cover the establishment of a permanent pool of...
  • Psychological Services
    155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing an additional 100 new NEPS psychologists. [23191/16]
  • Special Educational Needs Data
    156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the resource teaching and learning support hours allocated to all schools in each electoral division or the next...
  • Teaching Contracts
    157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made on the implementation of the Ward report in relation to contracts of indefinite duration and general recommendations for...
  • Special Educational Needs Expenditure
    158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated costs of increasing the resource teaching hours allocations from 85% of special education review committee recommended allocation...
  • Psychological Assessments
    159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average waiting time for students to be publicly assessed for special needs by the National Educational Psychological Service; the number of...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the performance of the pilot allocation system for resource teaching and learning supports; his views on whether the...
  • Psychological Services
    161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all DEIS schools are prioritised in their preferential access to NEPS psychologists; and if there is scope to provide priority to non-DEIS...
  • School Curriculum
    162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of major curriculum changes at post-primary level that are to be introduced in the 2017-18 or 2018-19 school years. [23202/16]
  • Educational Disadvantage
    163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering funding and supports for urban (band 1) DEIS schools as suggested in the ESRI review of the programme; and if his Department...
  • Traveller Education
    165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on restoring the visiting teacher service for Travellers; and the cost of restoring this programme to primary and post-primary schools....
  • Languages Programme
    166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has undertaken any review of the effectiveness of the simplified allocation process for both learning and language support...
  • School Funding
    167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that voluntary secondary schools receive less funding per student per annum than the amount allocated...
  • School Guidelines on Obesity
    168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the guidelines on healthy, tasty and nutritious foods in primary schools; and if he will consider issuing a circular...
  • Third Level Funding
    169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the policy of providing universities a top-up payment per student enrolled in a course teaching computer science has been successful; the...
  • Irish Language
    170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of non-Gaelscoileanna schools that offer access to Irish language partial immersion programmes, where 50% of subjects are taught...
  • School Guidance Counsellors
    171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide estimates of the cost of restoring ex-quota guidance counsellors to all schools. [23211/16]
  • Capitation Grants
    172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide estimates of the cost of a 20% increase per annum in the per capita capitation to voluntary secondary schools; and the estimated cost...
  • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
    173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to revise the criteria for a student to live three of the past five years in the European Economic Area and/or Switzerland to be eligible for the...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of a case (details supplied) if he is further aware that a HSE therapist and an educational psychologist have recommended that...
  • Schools Establishment
    175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the preliminary census results for County Meath, showing above trend population growth, he has cause to review the current and...
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
    176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the accounts of Caranua for 2014 and 2015 will be published. [23234/16]
  • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund
    177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet the Right to Peace group. [23235/16]
  • Departmental Correspondence
    178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he had an opportunity to review a file (details supplied). [23236/16]
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Data
    179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of survivors of institutional abuse who have received assistance from Caranua. [23237/16]
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
    180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it is envisaged that Caranua will complete its work.. [23238/16]
  • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund
    181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funds that are still awaited from religious orders in respect of Caranua. [23239/16]
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when payment will be made in respect of the sale of a site (details supplied); if this matter will be progressed; and if he will make a statement...
  • Departmental Titles
    183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when or if his Department will utilise section 6(1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 to confirm a new title for his...
  • Special Educational Needs Staff
    184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way special educational needs organisers who are neither medical nor educational professionals can adjudicate on the veracity or otherwise of...
  • Special Educational Needs
    186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on where Children First and health and safety legislation implies two adults must hoist, toilet, change and clean a child, as in...
  • Medicinal Products
    187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the administration of medicines by medically untrained teachers and special needs assistants in primary schools is...

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