Written answers

Tuesday, 3 July 2018

  • Counselling Services Provision
    124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the increase in the number of students seeking counselling, further to the concerns expressed recently by an...
  • Apprenticeship Data
    125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost in terms of revenue forgone over a full calendar year of a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) based on current participation...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for additional school accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28718/18]
  • Departmental Expenditure
    137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual expenditure on commercial archaeology services in his Department by provider in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018;...
  • School Services Staff
    138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the need for increasing caretaking and cleaning resources at a school (details supplied) in County Wexford will be examined; and if he will...
  • Schools Refurbishment
    139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for funding by a school (details supplied) in County Wexford to carry out necessary works will be approved; and if he will make...
  • School Transport Eligibility
    140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if parish boundaries will be recognised when places on school buses are being allocated. [28765/18]
  • Schools Building Projects Administration
    141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding payment to persons who have carried out work on projects funded by the State (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that will be taken to advance an application by a school (details supplied) for an ASD unit; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Schools Establishment
    143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the possibility of establishing a State-backed school of English at the St. Loman's Hospital site, Mullingar, was considered; and if he will...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there has been no capital investment into the printing apprenticeship programme. [28827/18]
  • Third Level Facilities
    149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ring-fence funding for counselling services on third-level campuses, as requested by an organisation (details supplied); and if he...
  • Student Assistance Fund
    150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to revert to the rates of the student assistance fund that were available in 2012 in view of the fact that the increases are not...
  • Student Accommodation
    151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to deal with the concerns of an organisation (details supplied) regarding the escalating cost of rents in Dublin, which is driving...
  • Electric Vehicles
    153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of charging ports and parking bays for electric vehicles at his Department building and other buildings used by his Department; and if...
  • Information and Communications Technology
    154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be sourced to undertake a large-scale project to examine the benefits of cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure in schools;...
  • Apprenticeship Data
    155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship registrations in craft-based apprenticeships; the number in new apprenticeships in 2016 and 2017 and to date in...
  • Special Educational Needs
    156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school supports for children with dyspraxia here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28932/18]
  • Education and Training Boards Staff
    157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are vacancies for teachers under the Kildare and Wicklow Education Training Board; if so, the details by subject; and if he will make a...
  • Action Plan on Bullying
    158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he has taken on foot of the action plan on bullying. [28934/18]
  • Capitation Grants
    159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase capitation grants to meet the actual costs of running primary schools in budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Minor Works Scheme Data
    160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount available in 2018, 2019 and 2020 under the revised minor works grant scheme; the number of schools that have had funds directed to...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the extension of a school (details supplied); the proposed start date for works to begin; the timeframe for the completion of the...
  • Energy Conservation
    164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the introduction of a mandatory seasonal disconnect of gas facilities in schools in order to save money during the summer months...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for completion of a new post-primary school in Kingswood, Dublin 24. [28971/18]
  • School Patronage
    166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the patronage process in respect of a new post-primary school announced for the Citywest area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a matter relating to a school (details supplied) in terms of the purchase of a site from SDCC by his Department. [28973/18]
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building project (details supplied) in County Cork; the timeline for the completion of same; if his attention has been...
  • Capitation Grants
    169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school capitation grant levels will be reviewed with a view to restoring the standard rate of €200; his plans to implement a...
  • Special Educational Needs Staff
    170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when proposals regarding nursing support for schools will be put in place in view of the advice given to him by the NCSE in early 2017 that...
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of the preferred site of a school (details supplied). [29025/18]
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of works for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29034/18]
  • State Examinations Commission
    173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the qualifications required to obtain a post as an examiner correcting the leaving certificate examination papers; and if he will make a...
  • Education and Training Provision
    174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasoning behind the cancellation of the intermediate welding course in KCETB; and if provisions will be made for students to complete the...
  • Schools Building Projects
    175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that the providers of school furniture under the schools bundle 5 construction project will be paid in full; if...
  • School Accommodation
    176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an ASD special class requested by its local SENO has been operating out of temporary...
  • School Transport
    177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding a school bus route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29084/18]
  • School Funding
    178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines in respect of schools' voluntary contribution; if his attention has been drawn to incidents in which a school has withheld...
  • State Examinations Fees
    179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount collected from the examination fee payment application in each year since 2008 to date by school based candidates and VTOS and...
  • Schools Administration
    180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the response to a query (details supplied). [29147/18]
  • Special Educational Needs Staff Contracts
    181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the situation of a SNA (details supplied); his views on whether in cases in which a SNA has had his or her hours cut by a...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether Ireland is five pupils per class above the EU average, OECD 2017, in primary schools; his plans to progress the reduction...
  • Teacher Training Provision
    184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to revise or reverse mandatory Gaeltacht fees for student teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29185/18]
  • School Staff
    185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the almost 5,000 middle management posts lost in the recession should now be restored; and the way in which he plans to...
  • Minor Works Scheme Payments
    187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the level of grant aid received by primary schools will be increased; and if assurances regarding the payment of the minor works grant to...
  • School Staff
    188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore middle management positions to the primary school network (details supplied); if the posts which were lost will be restored;...
  • Schools Refurbishment
    190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a grant for the refurbishment of a school (details supplied). [29213/18]
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if proposals to end the current pay disparity among primary school teaching staff will be brought forward in budget 2019; and his plans for the...
  • Special Educational Needs
    192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the National Council for Special Education will have finalised the form for assistant technology to allow it to pass on an application by a...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the slow progress in developing and introducing new apprenticeship schemes; if he is satisfied that the support given to...
  • Schools Building Projects Applications
    195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) has been received for the construction of an extension; if so, the status of the application;...
  • Teaching Qualifications
    196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Laois who is a registered teacher with conditions can teach. [29313/18]
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and provision made for the continuation of the person's SNA for the 2018-19 school...
  • State Examinations
    199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is provision for students who miss the leaving certificate examinations due to exceptional circumstances to be allowed to resit these...
  • State Examinations Data
    201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons required overall in recent years, including 2018, to correct papers and to assess projects in the State examinations; and...
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers in the most recent years for which statistics are available who were in receipt of a principal teacher's allowance...
  • Teacher Training Provision
    203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make training available for principal teachers on enactment of the schools admission legislation in view of the fact that these...
  • School Enrolments Data
    204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students on roll in the 20 smallest schools; if his Department takes responsibility to manage school amalgamations in circumstances...
  • Teaching Contracts
    205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps in place to promote teacher well-being; and if such measures will be augmented in view of international concerns regarding the...

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