426. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the rules or guidelines governing spending by third level institutions on external agencies used to recruit foreign students and the role of the Office of Government Procurement, in terms of professional services, in this process. [2160/16]
425. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number and names of agencies that are used to recruit foreign students by the third level sector; the gross cost to the State of using these agencies including value added tax for each of the past five years; the number of these agencies based here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2159/16]
789. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the Teaching Council had compelled persons to pay registration fees before the commencement of section 30 of the Teaching Council Act; if she has sought clarity from the Teaching Council on the matter; and if this practice is permissible. [46939/15]
742. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in temporary accommodation; and the number of these that are Gaelscoileanna. [46471/15]
740. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of attendees recorded by the teacher education section at continuing postponed Department seminars for post-primary teachers, including detailed whole-day workshops and evening seminars, in tabular form. [46449/15]
644. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help that were approved but not allocated due to financial constraints in the south Lee area and in the north Lee area in County Cork, in each of the past six months, in tabular form. [1094/16]
150. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills why the Teaching Council of Ireland is proposing to abolish regulation 3 which allows Association Montessori Internationale and Sarojini Naidu Medical College graduates to teach in special schools and classes and in resource and as substitutes in mainstream schools; the percentage of teaching staff in special schools who fall under regulation 3; the educational basis and evidence supporting this decision; and the timeframe in which she expects this decision to be implemented. [45485/15]
524. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide school transport in a case (details supplied) in County Cork. [44932/15]
43. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the continued use of the JobBridge scheme to employ teachers within schools. [43697/15]
40. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a national strategy for hunger prevention in schools; if her Department will retain responsibility for the development, implementation and monitoring of this strategy; and if a specific person within her Department will be given responsibility for the primary school age group. [43701/15]
33. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce an assessment regime for allocating supports under the reasonable accommodations at the certificate examinations scheme for students sitting the leaving certificate, similar to that which exists for students sitting the junior certificate. [43699/15]
13. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers employed in the primary and post-primary sector; the number of teachers on part-time contracts; and her plans to address the pay disparity for newly qualified teachers. [43698/15]
5. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the pilot scheme for allocating special needs resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44043/15]
2. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the programme for divestment of patronage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44042/15]
643. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide grant support through the sports capital grant programme or, following the closure of the local authority swimming pool programme, if he will relocate those funds to allow for the immediate upgrade of the University of Limerick arena facility in County Limerick, therefore ensuring the future of the sport of swimming and aquatics in Munster and Connacht. [44237/15]
503. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will develop an Educate Together school in County Galway, given that an independent demographic study commissioned by GET2LS, the Educate Together secondary level start-up group, clearly demonstrated a demographic need for a new school, and there are now five Educate Together primary schools in County Galway which between them accept six classes of junior infants each year (details supplied) with no multi-denominational post-primary for them to go to; if she is aware that there are more than 1,200 expressions of interest from independent parents living in County Galway in having an Educate Together secondary level school in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43794/15]
475. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will fund a scheme to deliver nutrition, cookery and healthy eating courses for parents within schools. [43557/15]
474. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish a food forum to address the issue of hunger in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43556/15]
473. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills when the State Examinations Commission will complete its review of its procedures for allocating resources to assist leaving certificate students under the reasonable accommodations in the certificate examinations scheme. [43555/15]
468. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances surrounding the loss of delivering equality of opportunity in schools status when Scoil Damhnait and McHale College merged to become Coláiste Pobail Acla in County Mayo, given that the larger McHale College previously had this status and took on the extra students when Scoil Damhnait closed, given that parents were informed that this status would not be affected and given that there are now nine national schools with this status feeding into a secondary school without this status in one of the most economically disadvantaged areas in the State; the persons who made the decision to remove this status from the school, and her plans to rectify this as a matter of urgency. [43527/15]
467. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools with delivering equality of opportunity in schools status that have merged with other schools since this status was introduced, and the number of the newly merged schools that maintained or received this status in tabular form. [43525/15]
318. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts paid to the operators of Knockalisheen direct provision centre, by operator and by individual contract, from its first use as a direct provision centre to the present. [44105/15]
317. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 1 December 2015, if she keeps a readily available breakdown of the amounts paid to companies contracted to run State-owned direct provision centres; the parliamentary and public oversight mechanisms in place to monitor these multi-million euro contracts; and her plans to remedy this situation. [44104/15]
Bill entitled an Act to repeal without exception provisions of law allowing for discrimination on religious grounds against children in admissions to school; to mandate the Minister for Education and Skills to modernise the curriculum and to provide for related matters.
628. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a number of compulsory purchase orders are needed to progress the construction of the north ring road in Cork; the estimated cost of completing these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43022/15]
627. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the construction of the north ring road in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43021/15]
527. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to adult literacy and basic skills during each year since 2007. [42738/15]
524. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of students not wishing to study religion at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick and related matters. [42667/15]
105. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts paid to the companies contracted to run each State-owned direct provision centre, from the inception of the system to present, by centre, by contractor and by start and end dates of each contract, in tabular form; and her plans to read this into the record of Dáil Éireann. [42438/15]
502. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the funding streams which a school (details supplied) in County Cork may apply to for financial assistance to rectify the problem of dry rot at the school; and how the school should address this matter. [41584/15]
498. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the difficulties faced by parents in securing school places for children if they reside in a certain area (details supplied) in County Dublin; the options for these parents when students are refused access to a certain school and other schools in this area; her plans to assist these parents. [41562/15]
481. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the proven demand for a Gaelcholaíste in north Kildare; that parents are being encouraged to send their children to an Aonad in expectation that the figures from the Aonad enrolments will show a demand; and that the children from north Kildare are already taking up places in Gaelscoileanna outside of County Kildare. [41506/15]
477. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the number of students attending courses under the free fees initiative being delivered by external private providers, but accredited to State-funded universities and institutes of technology; the names of these courses and awarding institutions; and the funding being given to these external providers for delivering these courses. [41464/15]
476. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the guidelines in place for State-funded universities and institutes of technology which tender for the external delivery of courses. [41463/15]
158. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a leaving certificate 2015 student (details supplied) who was allocated a special centre and a shared reader, but who failed her leaving certificate honours English paper; that on the student's paper being reviewed the student was deemed to have passed and was then brought down by a supervisor which resulted in her failing; and how the difference in the checking and marking of examination papers can occur when, for example, one question on Paper 2 which was 12 marks was brought down to seven marks. [40806/15]
95. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of the operation of the JobPath scheme in assisting persons access employment. [40007/15]
941. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the budget for English as an additional language posts has been cut and, if so, the details of the cuts by post and year. [37567/15]
940. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a school, 20% of whose total enrolment is made up of pupils who require English as an additional language support, qualifies for support as outlined in Circular 0005/2015. [37566/15]
939. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria required for a school to qualify for the allocation of an English as an additional language post. [37565/15]
938. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of English as an additional language posts awarded from 2010 to September 2015 to date, by full-time post, part-time post and year. [37564/15]
923. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on supports available for low-income students attending fee-paying institutions such as Griffith College and the Dublin Business School; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37345/15]
648. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health if any child has had advanced vision technology overseas funded by the Health Service Executive or his Department; the number of these children; the year this therapy took place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37247/15]
647. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that specialised speech therapy, known as auditory verbal therapy, is necessary for children who receive cochlear implants; the reason children do not receive this here. [37246/15]
646. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no specialised speech and language therapy for children with a speech delay and a hearing impairment; the reason the current system only provides speech therapy to children who can hear. [37245/15]
608. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to extend the community national schools' government by Education and Training Boards Ireland, out of the pilot phase; and the number of these which will be Gaelscoileanna. [36492/15]
607. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new primary school for the Doughiska and Roscam area of Galway, which has seen unprecedented population growth in recent years. [36485/15]
606. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills due to the socio-economic make-up of the catchment area in question, if she will extend Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools status to Merlin College Secondary School and to Merlin Woods Primary School in County Galway. [36455/15]
599. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria attached to the announcement earlier in 2015 that 600 new special needs assistants are to be put in place; if these will be full-time and permanent posts, for primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36389/15]