529 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary impact on her Department arising from the recent transfer of functions between Departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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528 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in classes of thirty or more on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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527 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals received by the National Council for Special Education to date regarding the withdrawal of special needs assistant positions from schools; the number of appeals processed to date; if any appeals have been upheld; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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526 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the final outcome of the National Council for Special Education review of special needs assistant positions in primary and secondary schools; if she will provide an update of figures released by the NCSE on 31 March 2010 relating to the withdrawal of SNA positions in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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385 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 is entitled to supplementary welfare; if the person’s State pension will be affected by any private pension the person may have when the person turns 65 years in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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325 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 5 May 2010, the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a holiday visa; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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98 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Health and Children the way she expects to achieve savings of €40 million in the dental treatment services scheme for medical card patients; the services that will be withdrawn or reduced for medical card holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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392 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the level of funding that has been paid out under the Smart Schools Smart Economy strategy to date; the number of classrooms that have received new equipment from the funding to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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391 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers that have been vetted by the Garda vetting unit to date at both primary and post primary level; the procedure for vetting ancillary staff in schools, such as special needs assistants, caretakers and secretaries; if such staff are also vetted by the Garda vetting unit; the number that have been vetted to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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388 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the amount of expenditure in each year over the past three years to date in 2010 relating to continuous professional development by her Department and its agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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389 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools which have 30 or more children in classes on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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387 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools with class sizes of 20 to 29, 30 to 39 and 40 and over for 2009 and 2010 in a tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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385 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if various Vocational Education Committees and Local Authorities here which administer higher education student grants report to her on a weekly basis in the number of grants they have awarded; the number awarded in respect of each of the awarding authorities; the number of grants awarded to date in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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384 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the work of an interdepartmental health promotion committee between her Department and the Department of Health and Children; the details of its work on mental health; the membership of the committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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383 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her plans to take steps to ensure schools and early years settings engage in mental health promotion and early intervention; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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326 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of the 78 schools identified under the 100mbps post primary schools project that have received high speed broadband to date; if he will provide a list of the 78 schools which have had their broadband infrastructure upgraded by the project to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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130 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of unaccompanied minors claiming asylum who arrive here and who are currently in secondary schools; the number of same who have been transferred from Dublin on reaching the age of 18 years; the number of same who are in secondary education and have to leave the relevant school due to the fact that they have been transferred from Dublin to other parts of the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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3 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on her recent attendance at the INTO and TUI annual conferences.
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4 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the ten areas in which she is considering a possible hand-over of primary schools from the Catholic Church to the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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1 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary schools that have dropped a science subject in the 2009-10 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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409 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that all persons correcting State exams in 2010 are teachers who have not taught the new syllabus in the subjects they are correcting; the number of retired teachers still correcting State exams; if a teacher corrects in one year, if they are automatically reappointed for the next year; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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402
D’fhiafraigh Deputy Brian Hayes den Tánaiste agus Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna conas gur féidir léi a rá gur léir nár ghá scoil nua a bhunú agus go bhfuil a Roinnse deimhin de gur féidir leis na scoileanna atá ann riar ar an méadú réamh-mheasta déimeagrafach i Meán Fómhair 2010, i gceantar Ráth Tó nuair is é mian na dtuismitheoirí sa cheantar go ndéanfaí oideachas a bpáistí a riaradh trí mheán na Gaeilge ach nach bhfuil gaelscoil sa cheantar agus gur dhiúltaigh a Roinnse aitheantas a thabhairt do Ghaelscoil Ráth Tó le hoscailt i Meán Fómhair 2010, d’ainneoin gur aithníodh Ráth Tó mar cheann de na limistéir aitheanta ar leith go bhfuil éileamh ardaithe ann ar bhunú bunscoileanna a rachadh i mbun feidhmíochta i Meán Fómhair 2010 de réir anailís mhionsonraithe Rannóg Pleanála Chun Cinn na Roinne Oideachais agus Scileanna féin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh.
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401
D’fhiafraigh Deputy Brian Hayes den Tánaiste agus Aire Oideachais agus Scoileanna ós rud é go ndeir sí féin go bhfuil ról maighdeogach le himirt ag an mbunscolaíocht i gcaomhnú agus i leathnú na gcéad teanga oifigiúil is í sin an Ghaeilge, cén fáth nach bhfuil aitheantas tugtha d’oiread agus bunscoil lánGhaeilge amháin ó Mheán Fómhair 2008, d’ainneoin go bhfuil Ráth Tó aitheanta ag Rannóg Pleanála Chun Cinn na Roinne Oideachais agus Scileanna féin mar cheantar ar leith go bhfuil riachtanas ann freagairt d’arduithe déimeagrafacha agus go raibh pátrún ag iarraidh gaelscoil a oscailt ar an láthair sa cheantar; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh.
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391 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if mature students, who are already in the system, in receipt of a vocational education committee grant who is currently doing their degree can continue in the system on full grants until their degree is completed in view of the changes in the application of the rules of the grant programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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390 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the situation facing mature students who, when they started their course, were promised that they would be able to complete the three years to gain a degree, and not a certificate, in view of the fact that these students have now been told that they will be treated as new students after two years and are not eligible for back to education allowance or a vocational education committee grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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389 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if a student completes level seven undergraduate course in 2009-2010 and wants to carry on to a level eight undergraduate course, will retain both the back to education allowance and grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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388 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if a student starting a postgraduate course, that is higher diploma, postgraduate diploma, master’s degree or PhD in 2010 to 2011, will be able to retain the back to education allowance and vocational education committee grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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375 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if the review of the general allocation model is complete; and when same will be published.
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303 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will clarify the situation facing mature students who, when they started their course, were promised that they would be able to complete the three years to gain a degree, and not a certificate, in view of the fact that these students have now been told that they will be treated as new students after two years and are not eligible for back to education allowance or a vocational education committee grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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302 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection if a student who completes a level seven undergraduate course in 2009-10 and wants to carry on to a level eight undergraduate course, will retain both the back to education allowance and grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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261 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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232 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a holiday visa application for a person (details supplied) was refused for a second time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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150 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Waterford has been without a speech and language therapist, in view of the fact that the regular member of staff is on leave and has been since May 2009; when this service will resume in view of the fact that the school caters for mild general learning disabilities and is dependant upon the services of a speech and language therapist; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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54 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Transport his plans to merge the Railway Procurement Agency into the National Roads Authority; the annual saving; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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401 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that all new school buildings approved by her Department have physical education halls as part of the project; if this is not the case, the total number without PE halls built in the past two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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378 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the amount of the €579 million investment in school building under the school building and modernisation programme that has been spent in the past four months.
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377 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the number of students registered to take Irish in their leaving certificate examination in each of the past three years; and the number that actually sat the examination over the same period.
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314 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the persons liable to pay the second home tax; if property has to be in the name of individuals for them to pay this tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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232 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 has to wait for their Garda clearance to be approved in view of the fact that they completed their previous job in this field prior to Christmas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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78 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of the metropolitan area networks around the country that remain unconnected to the backbone broadband infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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26 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the debt liabilities of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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968 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the number of school inspector posts that have not been filled since the introduction of the ban on recruitment; and the number of inspectors employed each year from 2007 to date in 2010.
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962 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the discussions she has had with the Commission on Energy Regulation concerning the pricing structure for gas as it applies to schools and the fact that schools are treated as businesses for the purposes of charging for gas; the discussions she has had with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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952 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the details of every printing contract awarded by her Department over the past two years, the cost involved in printing the publications and reports in question; where the work in question was commissioned; the VAT paid to the Revenue Commissioners to date by her Department when the printing took place outside the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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951 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that when her Department was responsible for organising the State examinations, that is prior to March 2003 when the State Examination Commission was established, that for some years, the payment of VAT by her Department and subsequently by the State Examinations Commission in respect of the paper printing contracts, were not made to the Revenue Commissioners in the respective year in question, and when they were paid eventually, the payments were late, and only paid when highlighted by outside bodies; and if she accepts that the failure to pay VAT by any public body on work commissioned outside the State represents a fundamental unfairness to those businesses in this State who have to charge VAT at source; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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939 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if the examination papers for 2010 State examinations for junior certificate, leaving certificate and leaving certificate applied, are being printed outside of the country; the detail of the successful companies who obtained the contract for this work; the last time examination papers were printed here; the potential savings for her Department, if any, in respect of having this work commissioned outside Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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938 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Cork will obtain the original roll books that were removed from the school in June 2009 on request from the district inspector of her Department; if these roll books will now be sent back to the school in question; when this is likely to happen in view of the fact that only temporary roll books have been in place since June 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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911 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the number of special needs assistants in the Dublin west region, on an area basis, who have lost their jobs in the past 12 months.
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889 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if she will request the State Exams Commission to review the case of a person (details supplied) for an assisted reader and associated supports at the upcoming State examinations in view of new information available.
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887 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the Donegal Education Centre; the amount of rent paid to date for this premises; the details of the property owner; the length of the lease agreement in place; her views on purchasing a premises for the education centre in view of the good value in the property market; if she will confirm that Donegal is the only education centre in the country renting a premises; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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