Written answers

Tuesday, 15 January 2019

  • Research Funding
    290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if applicants placed on the reserve list were successful in securing funding under a programme (details supplied); the name of the applicants;...
  • Research Funding Data
    291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated for research in each of the third level institutions in each of the years 2006 to 2016, in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if permission will be granted for work at a school (details supplied) in order that it can begin the planning and tendering process to be ready...
  • Oideachas Gaeltachta
    293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an ndéanfaidh sé an cóimheas idir daltaí agus múinteoirí do 2008 a chur i bhfeidhm go práinneach agus i gceart...
  • Summer Works Scheme Data
    294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific works to be carried out at each of the 20 schools in County Donegal under the summer works scheme 2019; and if he will make a...
  • DEIS Eligibility
    296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure for awarding DEIS status in both primary and secondary schools; the way in which certain schools fail to qualify for DEIS status in...
  • DEIS Status
    297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to establish an appeals mechanism for schools that have to date failed to obtain DEIS status; if his attention has been drawn to the...
  • School Placement
    298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a person (details supplied) who cannot source a primary school place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of new buildings and associated works for a school (details supplied); his views on the current arrangement in which...
  • Summer Works Scheme Administration
    300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision on the summer works programme applications will be made; when the schools that have applied will first be notified; and if he...
  • Third Level Courses Availability
    301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on reports from early career psychologists that there is a lack of transparency and fairness in the PhD application process and...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of secondary school places in the Kinsealy, Malahide and Portmarnock areas of north County Dublin...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when permanent buildings will be provided for schools (details supplied). [54173/18]
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for funding by a school (details supplied) will be processed in order to allow the service to commence in September 2019 in...
  • Schools Amalgamation
    307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the merging of two schools (details supplied) in County Cavan; if the consultation process will be examined with local communities;...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost incurred by his Department in 2018 for the use of taxi services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54208/18]
  • State Examinations
    309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of procedures in the case of a person (details supplied). [54245/18]
  • School Transport Provision
    310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided on medical grounds to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54248/18]
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school building projects in County Kildare; the timeline for completion of same in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
  • School Curriculum
    312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make history a compulsory subject for the junior cycle curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54253/18]
  • Special Educational Needs Staff
    313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allow special needs assistants to take unpaid leave for the purpose of undertaking teaching practice when retraining as a primary or...
  • Schools Refurbishment
    315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if phase 2 development works in a school (details supplied) will be sanctioned; if additional funding will be provided to allow for emergency...
  • School Curriculum
    316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will issue to correspondence in regard to the concerns of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to regularise the situation in regard to equal pay for equal work for teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54395/18]
  • School Accommodation Provision
    318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he is addressing the requirement for additional second level school places in Newbridge, County Kildare; and if he will make a...
  • DEIS Status
    319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the DEIS status of a school (details supplied). [54405/18]
  • Schools Building Projects
    320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 18 December 2018, if a meeting will be requested with the chairman of the board of management of the...
  • Language Schools
    321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to protect students of English as a foreign language who are paying fees to QQI language schools from further closures which would...
  • Teacher Recruitment
    324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he has taken in regard to the difficulties schools are having in recruiting teachers for subjects such as home economics and Irish;...
  • Apprenticeship Data
    325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship courses that are offered in west County Dublin; the uptake in apprenticeships; and if there was sufficient supply of...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the awareness and availability of apprenticeships to secondary school students, post-leaving certificate students and...
  • Schools Mental Health Strategies
    327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to combat student anxiety and stress within secondary schools to enable a good mental health environment for students sitting the...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget and spend in his Department for marketing, media and social media in each of the years 2016 to 2018, inclusive; the projected spend...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in his Department employed to work on marketing, media and social media in 2018. [54479/18]
  • State Examinations Exemptions
    330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a circular allowing for students who have been granted an exemption from Irish language studies on grounds of dyslexia to...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of prefabricated accommodation and its related expense at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Special Educational Needs
    332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the parents of a child can access a publicly funded assessment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Teacher Training Provision
    333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reinstate the grant for student teachers to attend a Gaeltacht course as part of their college course; and if he will make a...
  • Special Educational Needs
    334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, special classes in County Meath. [54535/18]
  • School Accommodation Provision
    337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 20 November 2018, the status of the project brief; when work with regard to same will be concluded;...
  • Schools Building Projects
    338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is equitable that conditions of planning associated with new educational buildings are not funded by his Department; and...
  • Emergency Works Scheme Appeals
    339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to refuse emergency works funding for a school (details supplied) for the development of a proposed sewerage system upgrade...
  • School Staff
    340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps which can be taken in relation to school secretaries to ensure their employment is secure (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • School Placement
    341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the number of places in south County Kildare for children diagnosed with autism scheduled to start primary school in...
  • School Management
    342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contacts he has had with a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1033/19]
  • Third Level Costs
    343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in place to alleviate the stress caused to students as a result of the change in structure of the pharmacy degree here following the...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new community school which has been sanctioned for Clonakilty, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1043/19]
  • Oideachas Gaeilge
    345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills i bhfianaise aitheantas agus moladh a bheith ag dul dó as an gcomhairliúchán poiblí maidir leis an gcóras...
  • School Accommodation Provision
    346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the proposed development plan for a school (details supplied); if his officials have met with the school to discuss...
  • Special Educational Needs Staff
    347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date on the implementation of the front-loading of inclusion support assistant posts, a recommendation from the National...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed special school for County Louth that will merge schools (details supplied); the reason for the significant delays in...
  • Literacy Programmes
    350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons that attended adult literacy and numeracy classes in each of the 16 education and training boards, ETBs in the past four...
  • School Staff
    351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will retain its teacher allocation in view of the fact that its teacher-pupil ratio is higher than other DEIS 1...
  • Apprenticeship Data
    352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new registrations on craft based apprenticeships in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1201/19]
  • Education and Training Boards
    355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the redevelopment of a barracks (details supplied); his plans for the site; the reason for the delay in the redevelopment plans;...
  • Autism Support Services
    356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare to complete a project. [1253/19]
  • Teaching Qualifications
    357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by teachers who have professionally trained abroad in trying to secure teaching posts...
  • Schools Building Projects
    358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question no. 241 of 18 September 2018, if the accommodation needs of a school (details supplied) have been agreed; when...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has received the pre-qualification report in relation to the building of a school (details supplied); if so, if it has been...
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the required clarifications have been received from the vendor of the site for schools (details supplied); if satisfactory, if a design team...
  • Schools Building Projects
    363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a project manager has been procured for the ADAPT programme; if so, when the manager will contact a school (details supplied) to progress its...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pre-qualification report for a school (details supplied) has been received; if so, if it has been approved; when tenders will be invited...
  • Schools Designation
    365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made on the application by a school (details supplied) to become co-educational; if not, the issues delaying the...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tenders have been invited for the completion of the Maynooth Education Campus, Maynooth, County Kildare; the number of contractors from which...
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 21 November 2018, if agreement has been reached on a new site for the school; and if he will make a...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 9 October 2018, if tenders have been sought for the appointment of a design team for a school...
  • Gaelcholáistí Issues
    369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is still his plan that the north County Kildare Gaelcholáiste will open in September 2019 (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • School Staff
    370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that a school (details supplied) retains its third mainstream classroom teacher in September 2019 due to extenuating...
  • Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
    371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address concerns (details supplied) with regard to Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI assessments; and if he will make a...
  • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
    372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé i gceist aige casadh le heagraíocht (sonraí tugtha) chun cúrsaí oideachais trí Ghaeilge a phlé go...
  • Oideachas Gaeilge
    373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth nach bhfuil an deontas do scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge atá á íoc le scoileanna deonacha amháin á...
  • Broadband Service Provision
    374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary schools that do not have access to high speed broadband. [1513/19]
  • Departmental Correspondence
    375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if a response to the correspondence has issued to the person;...
  • Higher Education Schemes
    376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to promote equality of opportunity in higher education; the efforts being made to remove barriers to accessing higher...
  • Summer Works Scheme
    377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to a school (details supplied) under the most recent allocation of the summer works scheme; and if he will make a...
  • School Catchment Areas
    378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to request schools to provide information detailing individual school catchment areas for primary schools; and if he will make a...
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of developments at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1593/19]
  • Schools Amalgamation
    380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the amalgamation of the national schools in Cahir, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1594/19]
  • Schools Refurbishment
    381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the dilapidated condition of a school building (details supplied); the timeline for the planned refurbishment...
  • Education and Training Boards
    382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has inspected the conditions at a school (details supplied) with regard to safety regulations for ventilation and access to...
  • Schools Health and Safety
    383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that all school buildings in the Fingal area meet fire and safety regulations. [1610/19]
  • Energy Conservation
    384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools set to receive energy retrofits in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1613/19]
  • Schools Building Projects Status
    385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made in providing a new school building for a school (details supplied); the timeline for this project; and if he will make a...
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in identifying and securing a site for a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; if...
  • School Textbooks
    388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount it would cost in 2019 if the budget for school books grant increased by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Transport Provision
    389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding school transport in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1657/19]
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter with regard to the pupil-teacher ratio in a school (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the customer complaints received by his Department in each of the years since 2016; if the complaints are grouped into categories; the nature of...

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