• Departmental Funding
  375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is in a position to provide further funding for the Ballymun Music Programme, an initiative co-funded by DIT; and if he will...
• Pensions Data
  376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of serving and retired Deputies and Senators in receipt of a teacher's pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25074/16]
• Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
  377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for home tuition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25283/16]
• Education and Training Boards Funding
  378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the main scheme non-pay allocation to Dublin and Dún Laoghaire education board which has been capped at 2012 levels; if he...
• School Transport Data
  379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received under the post-primary school transport scheme from counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2014 and 2015 in tabular...
• School Transport Applications
  380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for a bus escort will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24388/16]
• School Transport Provision
  382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has been informed that the bus route for a school (details supplied) is to be withdrawn in September 2016; and if he will make a statement...
• School Catchment Areas
  383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the temporary location for a school (details supplied) is outside the catchment area of the school; the temporary location options...
• Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
  384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to request that Student Universal Support Ireland reverses the recent decision to employ a company (details supplied) to calculate the distance...
• Disadvantaged Status
  385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will continue to be designated as having disadvantaged status; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Educational Disadvantage
  386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will announce the terms of reference for the review into DEIS; if there will be an interim report; the level of consultation with...
• Third Level Facilities
  387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the current situation at DIT whereby the governing body has failed to sign funding agreements with the Students' Union leaving...
• School Curriculum
  388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is committed to have Mandarin Chinese as a leaving certificate examination subject and the estimated timeframe for this; and if he will...
• Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
  389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to amend the residency rule relating to accessing Student Universal Support Ireland supports to allow for Irish citizens who emigrated...
• Weight of Schoolbags
  390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding school bags. [24524/16]
• Schools Site Acquisitions
  391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has identified a site for a school (details supplied); if he has agreed a sale with any landowners in connection with any site...
• School Accommodation
  394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the preliminary census results for Fingal county showing above trend population growth, he plans to review the current and future...
• Further Education and Training Colleges
  395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of any developments regarding the establishment of a college of further education in the Swords area of north County Dublin, given...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific provision made for children with autistic spectrum disorders and the number of places available in autistic spectrum disorder units...
• School Closures
  397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) has closed its doors in summer 2016 and is no longer in operation;...
• School Transport Applications
  398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene and allow for concessionary school transport in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
• Schools Refurbishment
  399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when moneys will be granted to a school (details supplied) as works need to be completed by the start of the academic year in September 2016; and...
• Emergency Works Scheme Applications
  400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application for an emergency works grant for urgent works on a school (details supplied); and if he will make...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project to provide a school (details supplied) with a new school building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24724/16]
• School Transport Availability
  403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will honour the commitment made by the Minister of State in his Department that all concessionary students will be accommodated on school...
• Departmental Expenditure
  404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards by his Department in...
• Departmental Agencies Expenditure
  405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of credit cards issued to staff working in each State agency funded by his Department, in tabular form; the number of cards per funded...
• Schools Establishment
  407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of recent census data, the decision to refuse a new primary level non-denominational Gaelscoil for the north side of Dublin will be...
• Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
  408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuair sé an comhfhreagras, an suirbhé innealtóireachta agus na grianghraif a sheol scoil i gContae Dhún na nGall...
• Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
  409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 20 November 2014, if the review of the operation of the fund referred to in the reply and in...
• Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
  410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 23 June 2016, if a leaving certificate is sufficient for consideration by the admissions office at...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 17 May 2016, if he will approve a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied). [24952/16]
• School Staff Appeals Mechanism
  412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider an appeal made by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24965/16]
• Early Start Programme
  413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 13 July 2016, if he will provide additional staff in cases of children who require one-to-one care...
• Schools Establishment
  414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25069/16]
• Special Educational Needs
  415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the pilot programme commenced by his predecessor on the implementation of the National Council for Special Education, NCSE...
• Comhlachtaí Aistriúcháin
  417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé na coinníollacha a bhaineann leis an gcaighdeán Gaeilge i ndáil le tairiscintí a lorgaítear ó...
• School Transport
  419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school bus transport for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25252/16]
• School Transport Data
  421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of concessionary bus tickets available to students for each of the academic years 2014-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 as part of the...
• Special Educational Needs Staff
  423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the policy of not permitting special needs assistants, SNAs, who took redundancy prior to 1 May 2014 to be employed in...
• School Funding
  424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the serious funding and resources shortfall at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Student Grant Scheme
  425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of restoring grants for postgraduate education and paying the equivalent of the back to education allowance as maintenance to...
• Third Level Fees
  426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of abolishing undergraduate and postgraduate fees, bearing in mind the reduction in tax relief on tuition fees. [25366/16]
• Schools Building Projects
  427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed upgrade to a school (details supplied), including any reviews or studies of suitable sites that may have been...
• Home Tuition Scheme
  429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review recent changes to the home tuition grant affecting children with autism spectrum disorder, ASD, between 2.5 and 3 years of age;...
• Special Educational Needs
  430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the correct procedure for parents who seek the support of a special needs assistant for their son or daughter in primary school. [25391/16]
• School Transport
  431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the distress the nearest school rule is causing to families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25392/16]
• Lease Agreements
  432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the landlords to whom his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each case. [25415/16]
• School Transport Appeals
  433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the School Transport Appeals Board sits only once a month to make decisions on appeals; and the steps he will take to reform the...
• Teacher Training Places
  434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on separate religion-based entry for the primary teacher training course in Dublin City University (details supplied); if he will be...
• Nursing Education
  435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on separate religion-based entry for the degree in general nursing in the University of Dublin (details supplied); if he will be...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received correspondence written on behalf of a person (details supplied); the reason requested supports for the person to whom this...
• Schools Building Projects
  437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department will commence the urgently required work on the rebuilding of a school (details supplied), which is now more urgent in the...
• Schools Building Projects Expenditure
  439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of spend on schools building projects, schools extensions and additional accommodation provision, with detail of increases and...
• School Transport Administration
  440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report on how his Department has determined that Quin Village, County Clare is closer to Ennis than to a school (details...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on the new primary school in Julianstown, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25502/16]
• School Transport
  442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding school bus services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25506/16]
• School Transport Eligibility
  443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25508/16]
• Summer Works Scheme
  444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support an application for the summer works scheme 2016-2017 in respect of a school (details supplied). [25511/16]
• Broadband Service Provision
  445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when eTenders will issue to schools (details supplied) in County Wexford for the schools broadband scheme; the criteria for the approved list of...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25536/16]
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken by his Department and the National Council for Special Education to ensure that a child (details supplied) has an...
• School Transport Applications Data
  457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of children who applied for a school bus from Quin, County Clare to Tulla, County Clare, including any children who were refused...
• School Funding
  458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of funding for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25630/16]
• State Examinations
  459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a reader in school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25631/16]
• School Transport Applications
  460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a special needs transport grant in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
• School Transport
  461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons (details supplied) in County Kerry who failed to secure a seat on the school transport bus service will be permitted to use the Bus...
• Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
  462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is financial assistance available to a person (details supplied). [25710/16]
• Lansdowne Road Agreement
  463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to providing non-union teachers the opportunity to opt into the Lansdowne Road Agreement in the context of any...
• State Examinations Appeals
  464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of exam papers which have been sent by a person (details supplied) to be rechecked; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• School Services Staff
  465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the employer responsible for persons who are employed as cooks in schools and paid by the board of management; if these employees are subject to...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next phase of development for Lusk Community College is expected to be completed; the details on the facilities which will be delivered...
• Departmental Communications
  467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an immediate decision will be made by the curriculum and policy section of his Department on the case of a person (details supplied); and the...
• Teachers' Remuneration
  468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be paid by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25790/16]
• Schools Building Projects Status
  469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has recently been informed that funding is not available to commence its building project even though the...
• Special Educational Needs
  470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a special needs assistant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25846/16]
• Third Level Data
  471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 665 of 14 April 2016, if he will provide a final response. [25848/16]
• Third Level Staff
  472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to replace retiring technical officers in the National University of Ireland, Galway (details supplied). [25863/16]
• Postal Codes
  473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if he will...
• Student Grant Scheme Administration
  474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the SUSI application process whereby an applicant who is 26 years of age also needs to provide details of his or her parents'...
• School Transport
  475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the exceptional circumstances that pertain to persons (details supplied) with regard to a concessionary bus...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site meeting involving departmental officials took place at a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if so, the outcome of the meeting;...
• Departmental Budgets
  477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department’s budget for 2016 for the major school building projects list was allocated; and if he will make a...
• Schools Building Projects Data
  478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools constructed in the past ten years that have sought funding from his Department to carry out structural repair works...
• Employment Rights
  479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason teachers are allowed to count their lunch breaks as part of their working day and special needs assistants are not; and his views on...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school project (details supplied) will be advanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25908/16]
• School Accommodation Provision
  482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the commitment given three months ago, in reply to Parliamentary Question Number 96 of 15 June 2016, to liaise with a school...
• Schools Building Projects Applications
  483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reassess an application for a second new classroom by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available in class and in school generally and through the National Council for Special Education for a child who was first...
• School Accommodation
  486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s regulations on overcrowding in schools, with particular reference to best practice regarding pupil numbers per building...
• Lansdowne Road Agreement
  487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his position on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Lansdowne Road Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25999/16]
• Minor Works Scheme
  488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if minor works grants will be paid to primary schools in autumn 2016; if there is a specific budget line in budget 2016 to cover the cost of...
• School Curriculum
  489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application in respect of a person (details supplied) for an exemption from Irish will be assessed; and if he will make a statement on...
• Digital Strategy for Schools
  491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when grants will be paid to secondary schools for the procurement of new equipment and the updating of existing equipment as part of the digital...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the progress of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26035/16]
• Appointments to State Boards
  493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list all vacancies on State boards or governing bodies under his control that existed on 26 February 2016 and all vacancies that have arisen...
• Costs of Education
  494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce the costs of primary, secondary and third level education for families and students here; and if he will make a statement on...
• Budget 2017
  495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects his Department is prioritising in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26114/16]
• School Transport
  496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why persons (details supplied) are being denied school transport; why their special educational needs and the impact that uprooting them from...
• School Curriculum
  497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timescale for the inclusion of physical education as a leaving certificate exam subject. [26153/16]
• School Accommodation Provision
  498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding by a school (details supplied) for additional accommodation to alleviate serious overcrowding in...
• School Transport
  499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the number of pupils who had school transport to a school (details supplied) and who have now been refused school transport;...
• Student Data
  501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who completed the leaving certificate in a school (details supplied) in 2016; and the number who went on to further...
• School Costs
  502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outstanding recommendations of the joint Oireachtas committee report on tackling school costs published in 2013 to be implemented by his...
• School Textbooks Rental Scheme
  503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated each year since 2006 to the school book rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26209/16]
• Departmental Expenditure
  505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital spend for 2015 and to date in 2016 in areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26211/16]
• Student Grant Scheme
  506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student grant assistance is currently provided to students at some private third level institutions; if so, the names of the institutions...
• Special Educational Needs Expenditure
  507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been provided each year since 2006 for the provision of special educational needs organisers and senior special educational...
• Departmental Policy Reviews
  508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the report on science, technology, engineering and maths, STEM, has been completed; when he intends to publish same; and if he will make a...
• Access to Higher Education
  509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the report commissioned by his Department on barriers to education for lone parents has been completed; when he will publish same; and if he...
• Student Accommodation
  510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outstanding recommendations of the report completed by the Higher Education Authority in respect of student accommodation in September 2015...
• School Uniforms
  511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has ever issued guidelines to schools on uniform policy and specifically on the provision of generic school uniforms; and if he...
• School Costs
  512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has ever issued guidelines to schools on the issue of voluntary contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Student Grant Scheme Administration
  513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will establish clear guidelines with SUSI on the issue of estrangement for the purposes of the student grant; and if he will make a...
• Legal Proceedings
  514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school sex abuse litigants his Department has written to in respect of an offer to not seek costs if the litigants take no further...
• Departmental Expenditure
  515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount which has been allocated by his Department to demographic pressures over each of the next five years for each budget in capital and...
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the number of apprenticeship places with ESB has reduced; the reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26222/16]
• Education Data
  517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the lifeskills survey 2016 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26223/16]
• Adult Education Provision
  519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been allocated each year since 2006 for adult numeracy and literacy initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the...
• First Aid Training
  520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider establishing a pilot programme for the roll-out of first aid training in secondary schools; and if he will make a statement...
• Departmental Circulars
  521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review the provisions of circular F 55/85; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26227/16]
• Schools Building Projects
  522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a new build programme at a school (details supplied); the contacts made with the school in respect of the matter; and if he will...
• Schools Refurbishment
  523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide assurances that funding will be found to provide for the necessary works sought by the board of management of a school...
• Schools Building Projects
  524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed building programme for a school (details supplied), including the schedule now being followed; and if he will make a...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he intends to take to address the shortage of ASD special classes at post-primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• School Accommodation Provision
  526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of new premises for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26280/16]
• Student Grant Scheme Administration
  529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise on the dental nursing programme and SUSI grant classification; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that qualification...
• School Transport
  530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons (details supplied) who held a concessionary ticket through the school transport scheme for the past two years lost a...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction is due to commence on a new school (details supplied). [26327/16]
• Schools Site Acquisitions
  532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the purchase of land at Charlesland, Greystones, County Wicklow for the provision of a new community national school; the size of...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; when construction will commence and be completed; and if he will...
• School Accommodation
  534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on a new school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26348/16]
• School Transport Provision
  535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will amend the current legislation governing the school transport scheme which states that routes will not be extended or altered,...
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend on apprenticeship training and a breakdown between the total number of male and female apprentices in training by each employment...

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