Written answers
				Tuesday, 10 December 2019
  				
Department of Education and Skills
				 
  - Apprenticeship Data 
 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprenticeships registrations and number of new apprenticeship programmes which have resulted out of the Action Plan to Expand...
- School Accommodation Provision 
 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) to replace prefab classrooms; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision 
 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a second ASD unit urgently required by a school (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51090/19]
- School Accommodation 
 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51127/19]
- Schools Building Projects Status 
 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a primary school for the Donabate peninsula, County Dublin (details supplied); if a cost-benefit analysis has been...
- School Accommodation 
 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a technical assessment of a school (details supplied) will take place. [51184/19]
- School Services Staff 
 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a scheme to provide for occupational pensions for school secretaries and caretakers who are paid by their board of...
- School Accommodation 
 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding extending the lease for temporary accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects Status 
 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the new school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51200/19]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio 
 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider measures to reduce the class sizes in DEIS schools in view of evidence such as the study Addressing Education Disadvantage by...
- Schools Site Acquisitions 
 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51232/19]
- Irish Language 
 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new junior certificate Irish paper has been changed (details supplied); if so, if the long-term aim is that Irish will no longer be a...
- Pension Provisions 
 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an illness related early retirement pension will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51239/19]
- Teaching Council of Ireland 
 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a preschool (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is not closed due to processing of Teaching Council registrations; and if he will make a statement...
- Third Level Funding 
 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the level of university funding coming from the military-industrial complex has been investigated; his views on the matter; and if he will...
- Home Tuition Scheme Provision 
 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) cannot obtain more home tuition hours; if additional hours will be allocated; and if he will make a...
- School Transport Provision 
 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding the provision of school transport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51316/19]
- School Textbooks Rental Scheme 
 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of increasing the funding of the school books scheme by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%, in tabular form. [51322/19]
- Special Educational Needs Staff Data 
 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing ten new resource teachers. [51323/19]
- National Educational Psychological Service Data 
 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing ten new educational psychologists. [51325/19]
- Speech and Language Therapy Data 
 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing ten new speech and language therapists. [51326/19]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio 
 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the student teacher ratio by one point. [51327/19]
- School Services Staff 
 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of bringing secretary pay in line with those employed directly by his Department. [51340/19]
- School Transport Fees 
 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of waiving fees paid by students for school transport via the school transport scheme at primary and secondary level,...
- Education and Training Boards Staff 
 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the staff shortage in the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board; if his further attention...
- School Transport Eligibility 
 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 26 November 2019, when Bus Éireann will commence liaising with the family in relation to the...
- Schools Building Projects Status 
 191. 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...
- Training Support Grant 
 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who is unemployed and wishes to undertake an ETB course is eligible for a social welfare payment while partaking in the course...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision 
 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed in which a child has no place for school in September 2020. [51365/19]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio 
 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio in DEIS band one schools will be urgently prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision 
 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to increase the number of ASD units at primary and post-primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51391/19]
- School Management 
 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider granting one administrative release day each week to teaching principals; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Advertising Campaigns 
 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advertising campaigns, promotional events and launches planned by his Department for the first six months of 2020; the budgeted costs of...
- Data Sharing Arrangements 
 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the data sharing agreements his Department has in place with organisations that are not other Departments or State agencies; the purpose of these...
- Freedom of Information Data 
 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of freedom of information requests in which his Department made a decision to deny; and the number in which the Information...
- Physical Education Facilities 
 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a physical education hall will be provided for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51473/19]
- DEIS Review 
 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an ongoing review of the DEIS support scheme. [51475/19]
- Schools Data 
 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in which the use of an application fee has been reported and confirmed by county in 2019, in tabular form; if refunds have...
- Homelessness Strategy 
 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his actions to date to implement the recommendations of a report (details supplied) of the Children's Rights Alliance home works...
- Schools Amalgamation 
 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or his officials have had discussions with and received correspondence from a trust (details supplied) or the religious orders in charge of...
- Departmental Agencies Data 
 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department; the number that have boards; the number of positions on each board; the number...
- School Accommodation Provision 
 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expansion plans for a school (details supplied); if sanction has been given for expansion in 2020; and if sanction has been given for...
- Departmental Staff Data 
 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget and number of staff working in his Department in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will...
- School Accommodation Provision 
 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for an additional school building will be expedited. [51624/19]
- Schools Building Projects Data 
 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approved capital projects for new school buildings, refurbishments of existing school buildings and temporary classroom provisions in an area...
- Schools Building Projects Status 
 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the construction of a new campus for a school (details supplied) on lands; the status of same; and if he will make a statement...
- School Accommodation Provision 
 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the temporary accommodation arrangements which will be made for a school (details supplied) in view of the fact the lease is due to expire on its...
- DEIS Scheme 
 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional improvements that will be made for DEIS schools; the resources that will be made available to them in 2020; the pupil-teacher...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility 
 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the adequacy of the categorisation by SUSI of mature students as being dependent on their parents due to the fact they reside with...
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals 
 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) who was refused the SUSI grant due to the fact they were categorised as dependent will be addressed;...
- Summer Works Scheme Applications 
 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €23,000 funding applied for by a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme for the installation of...
- Schools Building Projects Status 
 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of school building projects (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51747/19]
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility 
 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the habitual residence clause by which Irish citizens returning here to study higher education undergraduate courses are not entitled to free...
- Schools Building Projects Status 
 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if works at a school (details supplied) are to recommence in the summer of 2020; if so, the accommodation which will be made for a créche...
- School Patronage 
 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made regarding the patronage of the new secondary school in Greystones, County Wicklow which is scheduled to open in 2021;...
- Departmental Staff Remuneration 
 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 3 December 2019, the position regarding the postal delivery of payslips to teachers; and if he will...
- School Transport Appeals 
 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made regarding a school transport appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects Status 
 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a purpose-built campus for a recently established school (details supplied) will commence construction; if it will be completed within the...
- School Accommodation Provision 
 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for capital building works by a school (details supplied). [51813/19]
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility 
 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to amending the regulations governing tuition grants to Irish citizens returning here from outside the EU to take...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision 
 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding special needs assistant posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51846/19]
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