• First-Aid Training
  296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to making occupational first aid training compulsory for all physically able teachers and SNAs (details...
• School Transport Eligibility
  297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can avail of assisted transport. [54478/17]
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the provision of home tuition funding for early intervention can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied) to assist the person's...
• Children First Guidelines
  299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the national policy requirements for dealing with the reported sexual assault of a pupil by another pupil. [55179/17]
• Apprenticeship Data
  300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost to the State of an apprenticeship; the amount of this cost that can be attributed to training; and if he will make a statement...
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the lack of apprenticeships in areas such as health and social care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1114/18]
• Momentum Programme
  302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places on the momentum programme; the full year cost of increasing the number of places on the programme by 20%; and if he will...
• Minor Works Scheme Payments
  303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when minor works grant funding will be received by a school (details supplied) in County Louth; the reason the funding for 2017 was delayed; and...
• Summer Works Scheme Eligibility
  304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Louth will be assisted in sourcing funding to replace tarmacadam in the schoolyard; and if he will make...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when special educational needs organisers, SENOs, will be allowed to instruct schools to set up special needs classes in cases in which a school...
• Departmental Staff Data
  306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of departmental staff employed in Drogheda per departmental premises and within statutory bodies within his remit; and the grades of...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the receipt of more than 1,000 signatures from parents regarding the proposed relocation of a school (details supplied) from both...
• School Accommodation Provision
  308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for two additional permanent classrooms in the interests of the health and safety of...
• Schools Property
  309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to asking schools to develop plans for traffic entering and egressing school grounds and surrounding areas to...
• Schools Relocation
  310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to a school (details supplied) being located outside its catchment area; his plans to make provision for a site...
• Special Educational Needs
  311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions needed to fully implement the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 (details supplied); and the associated...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of rebuilding works for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54422/17]
• Institutes of Technology Funding
  313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of surplus or deficit recorded by Letterkenny Institute of Technology in each of the years 2007 to 2017, by year and yearly amount, in...
• Third Level Funding
  316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amounts allocated to each higher education institute in terms of core grant, fees and student contribution in each of the years 2007 to 2017,...
• Third Level Admissions Data
  317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the enrolment figures for Letterkenny Institute of Technology by graduate and undergraduate in each of the years 2007 to 2017, including...
• Third Level Staff
  320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the whole-time equivalent positions at Letterkenny Institute of Technology by category in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in tabular form [54459/17]
• DEIS Status
  321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the primary and post-primary schools in County Donegal which enjoy DEIS status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54460/17]
• Traveller Education
  322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore the position of resource teachers for Travellers in view of the fact that they are now recognised as a separate ethnic...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school project (details supplied) in County Kildare. [54481/17]
• Schools Building Projects
  324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding the retaining wall of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54486/17]
• School Management
  325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the escalating insurance premiums faced by primary and post-primary schools; if his Department has data in...
• Physical Education
  326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital funding he plans to put in place for schools to be able to effectively teach physical education as a leaving certificate subject....
• Schools Building Projects Status
  327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status and progress of the building project for a school (details supplied); when each stage is expected to be achieved up to and including...
• School Accommodation Provision
  328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the shortage of secondary school places in Dublin 8 in view of the fact that recent communication from his Department...
• School Placement
  329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a required school place in Clane, County Kildare, will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
• School Services Staff
  330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has discussed with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform plans to reinstate school secretaries in primary schools onto his...
• School Accommodation
  331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost in providing accommodation for a school (details supplied) from July 2005 to 2017, including land purchase, land rental, building...
• Apprenticeship Data
  332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of female apprentices in apprenticeship schemes at the end of 2017; and the measures being taken to encourage greater female...
• Physical Education Facilities
  333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when physical education facilities at a school (details supplied) will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54596/17]
• Technological Universities
  335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of meetings his Department has held separately or jointly with board representatives of Waterford Institute of Technology and Carlow...
• School Accommodation Provision
  336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of prefabs in use in primary and secondary schools in County Waterford; the corresponding figures at the end of 2007 and 2012; and the...
• Third Level Admissions Data
  337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the overall percentage of second level school students in each county who have gone on to third level education in the past ten years. [54619/17]
• School Attendance Data
  338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and percentage of students in each county who have dropped out of secondary education after the junior certificate and before the...
• Education Funding
  339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital funding his Department has allocated to projects in County Waterford at primary, post-primary and third level since 1 January 2011....
• Schools Building Projects Status
  340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide an extension at a school (details supplied) in County Waterford. [54622/17]
• DEIS Status
  341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 257 schools which met the criteria for DEIS status but did not receive it as reported in a newspaper (details supplied); and the location of...
• School Catchment Areas
  342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children from Wexford town’s secondary school catchment area who attend schools outside their residential catchment area;...
• Teacher Training Provision
  343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide teachers and SNAs with mental health training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54653/17]
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal by a school (details supplied) regarding its allocation of SNA hours. [54657/17]
• Teaching Qualifications
  345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that third level students with leaving certificate grades are not subject to a new grading system that may cause them...
• Minor Works Scheme Applications
  347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant aid assistance through the minor works programme which will be allocated to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a...
• School Funding
  348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant aid opportunities which are available to primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54708/17]
• Schools Building Projects Status
  349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54720/17]
• Schools Site Acquisitions
  351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new secondary school for the Malahide and Portmarnock areas of County Dublin as announced in November 2015; if...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next phase of the school building project for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin will commence; the status of this project;...
• Schools Site Acquisitions
  356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new site for a school (details supplied) as announced in November 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Departmental Funding
  357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name and number of organisations here that are in receipt of funding from his Department that have expended resources seeking the repeal of...
• Schools Amalgamation
  358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an agreement has been signed on the acquisition of a new site to combine schools (details supplied); the location of the site; when the work...
• Schools Building Projects
  359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the excessive delay in work commencing on a school (details supplied); the expected timeframe for the new facility; and if he will...
• DEIS Eligibility
  360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can now be categorised as a DEIS school in view of a report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54786/17]
• Departmental Legal Costs
  361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid by the State in fees to legal professionals for the purposes of defending the O’Keeffe case and other cases of day school...
• State Examinations
  362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when there will be a detailed marking scheme for the leaving certificate art curriculum; and the reason schools have not had a detailed marking...
• Schools Refurbishment
  366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) to carry out necessary works; the assistance that can be provided to the school; and...
• Broadband Service Provision
  367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 28 November 2017, the date for the provision of the service; and if he will make a statement on the...
• School Transport Applications
  368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) under the school transport scheme will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• School Attendance Data
  369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 28 November 2017, the number of post-primary students aged 12 to 18 years of age in each of the 314...
• School Transport Applications
  371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding school transport for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54960/17]
• Schools Building Projects
  372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied); if this project is still on course to commence in early 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Schools Extra Curricular Activities
  373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an organisation (details supplied) or its affiliate organisations sought or gained access to deliver its educational programmes to schools in...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress of an extension to a secondary school (details supplied) in County, Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location in which a person (details supplied) can access an ASD class. [55008/17]
• Schools Building Projects
  376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the next planned phase of the development at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
• Schools Extra Curricular Activities
  377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a joint application for funding for a music generation programme for children and young persons by Tipperary ETB and Tipperary County...
• Aitheantas Scoileanna
  378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills maidir leis an aighneacht atá curtha faoina bhráid ag Bord Oideachais agus Oiliúna na Gaillimhe agus Ros Comáin (GRETB) ag...
• Schools Building Projects
  379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to carry out an in-depth site analysis for the building of a school (details supplied) on its existing site as early as possible in...
• School Transport Provision
  381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of consultation, dialogue and engagement that is required of schools and other relevant agencies, including ETBs, with bus operators,...
• Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
  382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the introduction by SUSI of the third party representative process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
• Schools Administration
  383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that independent bodies such as an organisation (details supplied) send resource packs to schools...
• Home Tuition Scheme Provision
  384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in receipt of pre-school home tuition based on special educational needs; the number of households receiving home tuition...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) with special needs will be examined whereby the person is to be transferred back into mainstream class...
• DEIS Eligibility
  386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS status will be considered for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55185/17]
• School Placement
  387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure in place for a family that is unable to find a second level place in their area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure in place for a family with a child with mild learning difficulties that is unable to secure a second level place for the child in...
• Special Educational Needs Staff
  389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and the reinstatement of a SNA considered. [55192/17]
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be considered for a special class to support children with mild and moderate learning...
• Departmental Properties
  391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the vacant properties and land not in use, owned, rented or leased by his Department or by bodies and agencies under the aegis of his Department...
• School Catchment Areas
  392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a second level school with a catchment area that covers the Rathborne, Pelletstown and Royal Canal Park area (details supplied); and...
• Public Sector Pay
  393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the payment of increments in 2018 to public servants who are members of unions (details supplied) and who voted against...
• Departmental Reviews
  394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the workload review regarding lecturers in the institutes of technology, as promised in the previous public service pay agreement, will be...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports which can be accessed by high functioning young persons on the autistic spectrum who are not attending school. [55242/17]
• Teacher Discipline
  397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which an employer may commence or cease at different stages the procedures set out in circular 0071/2014, in tabular form....
• Special Educational Needs Data
  399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education needs organisers in County Wicklow, in tabular form; the number of vacancies and the recommended staffing level...
• Student Support Schemes
  400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are exceptions to the rule that a person who has studied to degree level in the UK and benefitted from free fees there cannot avail of...
• Disability Act Employment Targets
  401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the circulation of a form by the education and training board management instructing staff to declare...
• Schools Building Projects Applications
  402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied). [1036/18]
• Education and Training Boards
  403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the provision of the new headquarters for the Louth and Meath Education and Training Board, LMETB, in Drogheda; the...
• School Curriculum
  404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the selection process for schools that were selected to teach the new leaving certificate computer science subject; the number of schools that...
• School Transport Availability
  405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school run (details supplied) in County Tipperary which was deemed eligible for school transport for ten families will commence; and if he...
• Schools Building Projects Applications
  406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a sports hall by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1160/18]
• Cóiríocht Scoile
  407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a cheadófar deontas, a bhfuil iarratas déanta ina leith, do scoil (sonraí tugtha) chun cóiríocht níos...
• Na hOileáin amach ón gCósta
  409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills ar thug sé cuairt, ó ceapadh é mar Aire, ar aon cheann de na bunscoileanna nó na meánscoileanna ar na hoileáin...
• Scoileanna Oileáin
  410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé i gceist aige beartas faoi leith a fhorbairt i leith na meánscoileanna ar na hoileáin amach ón gcósta; agus...
• Third Level Charges
  411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an additional fee of €100 has been added to the existing course fee (details supplied) for students in receipt of a SUSI grant;...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is provision for children with special needs to attend preschool for an additional year rather than commence primary school at six years...
• Schools Building Projects Applications
  413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the funding and resources shortfall at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
• DEIS Eligibility
  414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Donegal remains excluded from the current DEIS programme; the efforts being made to allow for...
• Summer Works Scheme
  415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the 2018 summer works scheme; if a summer works scheme was offered in 2017; the status of same; and if he will make a statement on...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a contractor has been appointed to carry out works on a school (details supplied); the start date for works to commence on site; and if he...
• Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
  419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken by his Department following the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation second interim report recommendation that it...
• Education and Training Provision
  420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received a proposal from KWETB for hospitality training in County Kildare for chefs, waiters and so on; if he will approve the setting...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has appointed a design team for the required refurbishment and extension to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
• Schools Site Acquisitions
  422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the conveyancing process for the acquisition of a site for schools (details supplied) has been completed; if the site is now in the ownership...
• Schools Building Projects
  423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tenders will be invited for a project (details supplied); the closing date for receipt of tenders; if they have been invited; when...
• School Staff
  427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will sanction the appointment of a principal for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1525/18]
• Schools Building Projects
  428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that progress on the construction of a project (details supplied) is going well and that a school...
• Schools Refurbishment
  430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received a request for financial assistance to deal with a flat roof in a school (details supplied) which is in danger of collapsing;...
• Schools Building Projects
  431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tenders have been invited for a project (details supplied); if so, the closing date for receipt of tenders; when construction of the new...
• Legislative Reviews
  432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects undertaken to consolidate or amalgamate existing legislation, including the cost, the duration, the number of staff required and if...
• Schools Building Projects
  433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a new ASD unit and additional classrooms at a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make...
• Teacher Data
  434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary teachers currently on career break from teaching. [1582/18]
• Teacher Recruitment
  436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school vacancies that existed in each of the years 2014 to 2017; the number of these that were successfully filled; and if...
• Minor Works Scheme
  438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that the minor works grant scheme is maintained on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1636/18]
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department is taking to increase the availability and uptake of apprenticeships which lead to careers in the construction...
• Teacher Recruitment
  440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the shortage of qualified substitute teachers available in primary schools in the Dublin 15 area will be addressed; the efforts under way to...
• Youth Services
  441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education Training Board's involvement in an organisation's facility (details supplied); if there are plans to...
• Schools Building Projects
  442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction work will begin on a school project (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1715/18]
• Departmental Contracts Data
  446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of all agencies contracted by his Department to provide relationship and sexuality education and social, personal and health education...
• School Accommodation
  447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the lack of space for teaching at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1772/18]
• Departmental Staff Data
  450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of employees in his Department or in organisations under its remit registered disabled. [1855/18]
• Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
  452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the financial difficulties facing post-leaving certificate students as reported in the recent ESRI evaluation and SOLAS...
• Institutes of Technology
  453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site was identified in Wexford town for the development of a university campus; if so, the location of same; and the proposed date for the...
• Student Grant Scheme Administration
  454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale behind SUSI's new third party representation process; and the rationale for not now accepting email consent contrary to its email...
• Capitation Grants
  455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received correspondence from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; if the school capitation grant will be increased in view of...
• Schools Building Projects Status
  456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a new school building; and if confirmation that funding will be included in the upcoming capital programme for...
• Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
  457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 204 of 27 June 2017, 224 of 20 September 2017 and 51 of 25 October 2017, when the eligibility review will...
• Special Educational Needs Service Provision
  458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a special autism unit will be set up in a school (details supplied). [1952/18]
• Departmental Properties
  459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when consent and the terms of consent for the sale of an old school building (details supplied) will be given. [1953/18]
• Higher Education Authority Funding
  460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the HEA will provide a breakdown of the funding made available to an institute (details supplied) in 2016 and to date in 2018; if a copy of...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a motion (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1991/18]
• Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
  462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent ESRI report on post-leaving certificate courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2029/18]
• Departmental Communications
  463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department uses anti-profanity software in its email systems and online contact forms; if so, the level of human oversight that is applied...
• Departmental Strategies
  464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Government's initiatives in his Department in 2017 that promoted State services or welfare payments, public awareness of regulatory changes...

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