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Question· writtenPQ 182asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
182. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of extra teachers likely to be employed at primary and second level schools throughout the country; if particular attention is likely to be provided to regions under pressure from population increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45724/14]
Question· writtenPQ 181asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
181. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she and her Department continue to liaise with the authorities at the various denominational schools in the various urban and rural areas with a view to maintaining the highest level of commitment in respect of smaller schools deemed to be under threat; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45723/14]
Question· writtenPQ 180asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
180. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Skills her priorities to deal with special needs requirements at primary and second level at all schools throughout the country in the coming year with particular reference to autism and ADHD; if she is satisfied regarding the adequacy of the number of special needs teachers and special needs assistants available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45722/14]
Question· writtenPQ 179asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
179. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she expects to be in a position to provide the necessary support facilities at primary and second level schools throughout the country to meet the requirements of children with special needs; if she will meet the requirements as set out by school authorities in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45721/14]
Question· writtenPQ 178asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
178. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects to be in a position to improve the pupil-teacher ratio and class sizes at primary and second level in the course of the coming year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45720/14]
Question· writtenPQ 177asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
177. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the distance requirements in place for school transport eligibility; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the minimum distance of 4.8 km from the nearest education centre is placing severe pressure on families in rural areas who are just outside of this limit, in view of the fact that there is no public transport in these areas and parents may be working and unable to drive these pupils to school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45712/14]
Question· writtenPQ 176asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
176. Deputy Michael Ring asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ascertain from Student Universal Support Ireland the way grant applications for siblings were assessed and the guidelines used for determining eligibility in view of the number of dependent children in the household; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45672/14]
Question· writtenPQ 175asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
175. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she accepts that the nature and ethos of a school must be taken into account by her Department when deciding the school closest and therefore deemed by her Department to be most suitable for a student to attend in order to apply for school bus travel. [45667/14]
Question· writtenPQ 174asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
174. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the methodology applied to measure the distance from home to school to determine school bus eligibility. [45666/14]
Question· writtenPQ 173asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
173. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills when assessing a student for eligibility of a school bus ticket, if it is the shortest distance between the home and the school that is calculated when determining eligibility or if it is the total distance travelled by the bus, having picked up all students on that route, inevitably making the journey longer, that is measured. [45665/14]
Question· writtenPQ 172asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
172. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reopen the minor works scheme in 2015. [45657/14]
Question· writtenPQ 171asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
171. Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45652/14]
Question· writtenPQ 170asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
170. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [45647/14]
Question· writtenPQ 169asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
169. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information on the planning schedule, start dates and layout of the new building at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [45623/14]
Question· writtenPQ 168asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
168. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a further update on plans for the development of permanent school accommodation for a school (details supplied), the all-Irish primary school currently housed in the school complex at Knockmore Avenue, Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45619/14]
Question· writtenPQ 167asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
167. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide additional second level school accommodation in the Firhouse area, Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45618/14]
Question· writtenPQ 166asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
166. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm plans for the development of permanent school accommodation for a school (details supplied) currently housed in temporary accommodation in a centre in Tallaght, Dublin 24; if she will confirm the schedule now being followed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45617/14]
Question· writtenPQ 165asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
165. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 1 July 2014, the number of relief teaching days allocated to teachers on a departmental pension in the latest available figures at primary and post-primary respectively; the steps being taken to reduce this number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45611/14]
Question· writtenPQ 164asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
164. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if grant aid will be made available to assist primary schools with the ever-increasing requirements of her Department in compiling the pupil online database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45575/14]
Question· writtenPQ 163asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
163. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to lift the moratorium on filling posts of responsibility in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45574/14]
Question· writtenPQ 162asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
162. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address WIT's preference to become a university outside the terms of her proposed technological universities Bill and the breakdown in talks with IT Carlow. [45417/14]
Question· writtenPQ 161asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
161. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason this Deputy's correspondence (details supplied) has not been replied to, notwithstanding its having been furnished to Bus Éireann school transport services on 8 September 2014; if steps will be taken to ensure that an appropriate reply is furnished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45709/14]
Question· writtenPQ 50asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
50. Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 6 November 2014, if she will put on the record of Dáil Éireann the findings and recommendations of the report of a value for money review of small primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45193/14]
Question· writtenPQ 49asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
49. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an up-to-date assessment on Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht and the reason the Mary Immaculate College in Limerick feels it necessary to put on an extra Gaeilge module this semester; and the reason the cost is so high to avail of this training. [40043/14]
Question· writtenPQ 48asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
48. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the introduction of a capital fund for publicly-owned facilities and buildings operated wholly or partially by education and training boards, which provide courses for adult and further education and which would allow for essential repairs to be carried out in these buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45093/14]
Question· writtenPQ 47asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
47. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the number of secondary school places in Dublin 15; and her plans to create more places to resolve the shortage that students and their families are faced with. [45363/14]
Question· writtenPQ 46asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
46. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a minor works grant in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45283/14]
Question· writtenPQ 45asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
45. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide supports for disadvantaged pupils in 2014-15. [45097/14]
Question· writtenPQ 44asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
44. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that class sizes here are the second highest of EU members; to set out her views on the fact that class sizes in County Kildare are among the highest here; her plans to tackle this in view of the fact that the increases in her Department's funding is only sufficient to maintain present pupil-teacher ratios given the changing demographics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45229/14]
Question· writtenPQ 43asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
43. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to regulate the education of non-EU nationals in the Irish education system, as it appears to be run by a system of agents who are largely non-resident and therefore exempt from VAT, and who entice students into our education system with unregulated payments and commission leading to poor outcomes for students and colleges. [45095/14]
Question· writtenPQ 42asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
42. Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include a school (details supplied) in County Mayo in the DEIS scheme so that the pupils there will have parity with the pupils in neighbouring schools and they will not suffer disadvantage due to their exclusion from DEIS through no fault of their own. [45094/14]
Question· writtenPQ 41asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
41. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to improve broadband connectivity in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45285/14]
Question· writtenPQ 40asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
40. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she will be in a position to improve class sizes in the course of the current year with particular reference to schools currently exceeding the national average; the extent to which consideration has been given to the issue in the context of whether extra teachers or extra accommodation is critical in terms of requirement and resolution; her plans regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45091/14]
Question· writtenPQ 39asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
39. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reinstate the minor works grant. [45122/14]
Question· writtenPQ 38asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
38. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Education and Skills with the increase in enrolments in 2015 and for the next number of years her plans to ensure additional capacity, with particular reference to Galway city and county. [45269/14]
Question· writtenPQ 37asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
37. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Skills her assessment of the impact of the moratorium on filling posts of responsibility at post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45367/14]
Question· writtenPQ 36asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
36. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the school profiling element of the proposed new special needs model has caused deep concern and that many school principals, particularly in rural and smaller communities, are worried that the gathering of personal information may damage the school-home relationship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45284/14]
Question· writtenPQ 35asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
35. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Skills the details on planned changes to staffing schedules in small primary schools, which will increase the appointment-retention figure for a second teacher to 20 students; the measures being taken to ensure that small schools such as a school (details supplied) in County Wexford, that provide a key service to the community, will not be forced to shut down due to these changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45360/14]
Question· writtenPQ 34asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
34. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she has agreed to the meeting requested by building workers and UNITE members involved in the dispute at a building project (details supplied); and if so, if she will report on that requested meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45117/14]
Question· writtenPQ 33asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
33. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the high rates of casualisation and low rates of pay in the third level sector for casual academics; and her plans to address the situation. [45365/14]
Question· writtenPQ 32asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
32. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way she plans to advance proposals for a technological university in the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45286/14]
Question· writtenPQ 31asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
31. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on junior cycle reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45282/14]
Question· writtenPQ 30asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
30. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the progress of the prefab replacement programme; the number of schools that have had prefabs replaced by county; the number of schools still to be reached; and her plans and timeframe to replace the temporary structures with permanent classroom accommodation. [45268/14]
Question· writtenPQ 29asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
29. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in addressing the specific issues of rural schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45089/14]
Question· writtenPQ 28asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
28. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will be publishing the value for money report on small primary schools; if she plans to implement its recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45103/14]
Question· writtenPQ 27asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
27. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be any further alleviation of moratorium on filling posts of responsibility at post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45366/14]
Question· writtenPQ 26asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
26. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the significant demand for a new Gaelcholáiste in the north Kildare area with parents of over 200 children seeking access to such an educational environment as their first choice; her views that at this point An Aonad does not come close to recognising this need; if she will revise earlier statements that it will take up to five years to determine need in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45228/14]
Question· writtenPQ 25asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
25. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education and Skills the role of the apprenticeship council; their role in the development and implementation of apprenticeships; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45124/14]
Question· writtenPQ 24asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
24. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participants who have enrolled on the VTOS scheme through the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board for the current academic year; the way this number compares with the number for the academic year 2013-2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45364/14]
Question· writtenPQ 23asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 November 2014
23. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she has reviewed the proposal put forward by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to have the Student Universal Support Ireland application process reconfigured alongside the Central Applications Office process so that students will know whether they have financial support before beginning third level courses. [45123/14]