425. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to establish a longitudinal study over ten years which would follow young persons who leave care in order to map their transition into adulthood. [12925/15]
414. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 9 April 2014, when the information requested will be supplied. [13350/15]
380. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Courts Service of Ireland has conducted best practice research into the management of children and family services in the courts in other jurisdictions. [12926/15]
289. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has received a business case from the Child and Family Agency and from the Courts Service of Ireland to cost proposals for full implementation of the Ryan report; and the additional resources that have been requested. [12936/15]
248. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 15 April 2014, if she will be reviewing policies regarding the domiciliary care allowance in view of the High Court judgment referred to in the previous parliamentary question; if her Department will be contacting persons who were unsuccessful in their application, and notifying them of the ability to reapply; the number it will be contacting; the timeframe for same; the number of persons her Department has contacted notifying them that they could re-apply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13343/15]
223. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 24 March 2015, if students in those situations will be facilitated in completing their courses with the current level of income support they receive. [13088/15]
892. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the purchase scheme for local authority apartments. [11727/15]
814. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a change of status for three schools (details supplied) in Dublin 10 has been granted; if a change of status was granted, the criteria used to evaluate the schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11945/15]
802. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the role of the National Council for Special Education in providing advice to schools, principals and boards of management on how to manage children with behavioural needs. [11757/15]
801. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which play therapy for children is currently facilitated in schools; and the way in which schools can access this, where appropriate. [11756/15]
800. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on allowing principals or teachers to advocate for children to receive an assessment of needs, where appropriate, and with parental consent. [11755/15]
799. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the age criteria for compulsory attendance at primary schools and the way in which this can impact on attendance levels. [11754/15]
798. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on difficulties involving taking children out of schools to attend speech and language therapy at outside venues when teachers and school management have worked very hard on attendance; if she will consult the Department of Health on the possibility of having speech and language therapy take place in school settings; if she has examined the feasibility of this proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11753/15]
789. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of junior certificate candidates that undertook the civic, social and political education course work and examination through the medium of Gaeilge in each of the years 2012 to 2014, inclusive. [11518/15]
787. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place has been found for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 9; her plans to address this matter; the date on which she will bring forward the education (admissions) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11509/15]
776. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she has consulted with the Department of Social Protection on the number of students who will no longer qualify for Student Universal Support Ireland payments, due to changes in the one-parent family payment; the number of persons that will be affected by same; and her plans to address this matter. [11391/15]
771. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 501 of 10 March 2015, if the changes to adjacent rules of the grant actually yielded a saving of €30 million; the exact saving that occurred; where moneys saved from this change were re-allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11343/15]
760. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the National University of Ireland's moves towards removing foreign languages as an entry requirement to courses; the options available to her to intervene if it continues with this policy change; and her plans to address this matter. [11205/15]
756. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Dublin has been operating without a board of management; if this is permitted under legislation; and her plans to rectify this matter. [11159/15]
661. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that children who spend time on a waiting list for speech and language therapy in one area, can have that waiting time counted on a different waiting list when they move location, in order to ensure they are not placed at the bottom of the queue. [11759/15]
537. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff members employed in the National Educational Welfare Board for each of the past five years; the number of staff on sick leave or maternity leave; and if those staff members have been replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11761/15]
536. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which Tusla engages with school attendance issues; the number of days a child has to miss before it will intervene; the number of interventions on this matter it has made each month since it was established, set out in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11760/15]
525. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of refuge places for persons escaping domestic violence per 10,000 of the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11390/15]
452. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of incidents of self-harm that required medical attention in each direct provision accommodation centre during each year since 2009. [11345/15]
164. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a lone parent in receipt of the one-parent family payment, who is engaging in a Springboard course and is in receipt of a Student Universal Support Ireland grant to cover fees, will have to exit his or her studies once his or her youngest child reaches seven years of age. [11204/15]
501. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the savings her Department made by adjusting the adjacent rates for qualifying for higher education grants for each year since the changes were introduced. [10567/15]
500. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the cuts to the education budget for each year since 2010. [10551/15]
534. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined the cost of ensuring that schools do not lose any special educational needs resources by introducing a rule whereby under any reforms of the National Council for Special Education schools do not receive a reduction to any already allocated resources under the new rules, in order to ensure that schools that have used resources appropriately and effectively in the past are not unintentionally penalised under the new rules; the cost of introducing this rule; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9392/15]
505. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which she will publish the education (admission to schools) Bill 2015. [9235/15]
503. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students currently attending second level education aged 18 years and over. [9225/15]
501. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the implementation of the recommendations in the expert group report on the level of fixed-term and part-time employment in teaching; the way she will allow fixed-term teachers to acquire permanent positions more easily and quickly and enable part-time teachers to gain additional hours; if she will outline provision for extended redeployment arrangements in the event of mismatch between teacher qualifications and the curricular needs of schools; the date on which each of the seven recommendations will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9173/15]
114. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the development of a pilot scheme for the new allocation system for special educational needs resources for the National Council for Special Education, including the timeframe, the number of schools that will be involved, and the current consultation that is underway. [9096/15]
111. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on development of technological universities here, including the proposed merger between Cork Institute of Technology, County Cork and Tralee Institute of Technology, County Kerry. [9095/15]
213. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of expenditure on rented accommodation in the further education and training sector by education and training board area during each of the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8486/15]
466. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the seven schools in County Kilkenny with higher than acceptable levels of lead in their water supply; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that they have been told by Irish Water to find a new supply; and the funding options open to them to replace the piping that is causing the excessive lead levels and to rectify the problem. [7054/15]
465. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which have higher than acceptable levels of lead in their water supply; and the locations of same. [7053/15]
464. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the remit of the proposed inclusion support service within the National Council for Special Education; the way in which it will deliver improved services that would have been delivered by the special education support service, the national behaviour support service, and the visiting teacher service for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and for children who are blind or visually impaired, in future; and the projected savings that will be generated from the amalgamation of these bodies under the inclusion support service body. [7052/15]
463. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the time frame provided to her Department officials to design a pilot of the new model allocation system for special educational needs resources in schools; and the number of schools she envisages participating in the pilot scheme. [7051/15]
462. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the new allocation system for special educational needs resources will be in place in all schools. [7050/15]
455. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the level of funding that would be required to reduce the current teacher-student ratio of 1:23, in the Irish university sector to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development average of 1:14. [6966/15]
441. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the operation of regulation 5 of the Teaching Council (Registration) Regulations 2009; if a transition arrangement was introduced by the Teaching Council to provide teachers, working before April 2013, time to acquire a recognised qualification; the details of the transition arrangement; the number of people who availed of this, if it was in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6767/15]
430. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of resource teachers and special needs assistants who will be asked to transfer to new schools, or will lose their positions, when the National Council for Special Education reconfigures special education needs resource hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6670/15]
429. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new primary schools and secondary schools established during each of the years, 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; and the number of new schools projected for development over the next two years. [6669/15]
304. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of the investigation by An Garda Síochána into the incident involving the Minister for Social Protection at Jobstown, Dublin 24. [6835/15]
147. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the idea of developing an all-Ireland anti-bullying strategy for schools. [6178/15]
146. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details of in-service training for teachers on combatting bullying in schools. [6177/15]
144. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a definition for strategically important small schools; and if so, the number there are within the State. [6172/15]
142. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, details of the schools which have amalgamated or closed during each year since 2010, including names, locations, school patrons, the number of pupils in each school, and the schools which amalgamated together. [6170/15]