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Question· writtenPQ 250asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
250 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Education and Science if he has considered the application for resource and special needs assistant hours for a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if he intends to agree to the request.
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Question· writtenPQ 249asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
249 Ms O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the need to replace a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary with a new structure in view of concerns about the safety of the building and also over-crowding in the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 248asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
248 Mr. F. McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Science if the maximum support and assistance will be awarded to a school (details supplied) in Santry, Dublin 9, in obtaining a premises; if his Department will include the purchase of school sites in the 2005 programme; and if he will make this school a priority issue.
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Question· writtenPQ 247asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
247
D’fhiafraigh Mr. O’Shea den Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta an mó cruinniú a bhí aige leis an gComhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta óna cheapachán, an bhfuil sé sásta le plean straitéiseach na comhairle, an gcuirfidh sé airgead ar fáil chun an plean a mhaoiniú agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina leith.
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Question· writtenPQ 246asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
246 Mr. Connaughton asked the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Galway; when phase 1 of this school will commence; if phase 1 will be included in the small schools devolved initiative scheme; if so, when his Department will grant approval for this project; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this school will increase from a five class teacher to a six class teacher school in September 2004; if this attention has further been drawn to the fact that there are only two proper classrooms in the school, together with two sub-standard classrooms and a pre-fab for the other three teachers; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that in September 2004 another class will have to use a pre-fab, that the full-time resource teacher is currently housed in a pre-fab and that the shared learning support teacher based in the school works from a small kitchen; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 245asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
245 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason an application by a school (details supplied) in County Cork under the summer works scheme has not been approved; and when approval for these works is likely to be forthcoming.
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Question· writtenPQ 244asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
244 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Education and Science the money allocated by his Department in 2003 and 2004 to directly fund services for persons with disabilities and the money allocated to enabling persons with disabilities to more easily access services of his Department.
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Question· writtenPQ 243asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
243 Mr. S. Power asked the Minister for Education and Science if agreement has been reached on the extension at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 242asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
242 Mr. McHugh asked the Minister for Education and Science if an application from a school (details supplied) in County Galway for grant aid towards construction of two classrooms will be approved; when funding will be made available; the amount of funding that will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 241asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
241 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the money set aside in his Department in 2004 for site acquisition for primary and post-primary schools; the amount spent to date and the amount remaining to be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 240asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
240 Mr. Crawford asked the Minister for Education and Science if he has satisfied himself with the situation which now exists in colleges such as Trinity and UCD in which libraries are closed at 6 p.m.; his views on whether this has serious implications especially for rural students who have to survive in one room flats with minimum facilities; his further views on whether this is a result of Government failure to cover the cost of benchmarking or inflation in their funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 239asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
239 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application for funding for tarmacadam resurfacing at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if other funding can be made available to complete the playground resurfacing before September 2004.
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Question· writtenPQ 238asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
238 Mr. Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Science if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 16 December 2003, a decision has been made in regard to same; if he has satisfied himself that the delay in making a decision on this matter is acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 237asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
237 Mr. Carey asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will examine the application by a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 for additional teaching resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 236asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
236 Ms O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the need for a second level school in the Laytown area of County Meath in view of the rapidly expanding population in Laytown and Bettystown and also in areas such as Drogheda where young persons from Laytown and Bettystown have traditionally accessed second level places; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 235asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
235 Ms O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Science when he will implement his promise to send an inspector to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare to address the problem of large classes, two of which consist of 33 boys; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 234asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
234 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide finance for the following works at a school (details supplied) pending the building of a new school; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 233asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
233 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the meaning of fast tracking a project through the school building programme; the number of projects that have been told they will be fast tracked; the method to be adopted by him to do this; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 232asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
232 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to an application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 231asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
231 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science if funding has been made available to upgrade the science facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 230asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
230 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the stage the application for a new school (details supplied) in County Clare is at; the reason for the delay in the provision of the new school; if he intends it to proceed by public private partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 229asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
229 Mr. Hayes asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will address the capping of numbers attending a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary due to the consequences and hardship for many families in the locality.
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Question· writtenPQ 228asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
228 Mr. F. McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Science if urgent assistance will be given to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 14 in its efforts to develop resource services and provide special needs assistants for its pupils; and if this matter will be given priority.
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Question· writtenPQ 227asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
227 Mr. Kehoe asked the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application for resource hours for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 226asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
226 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will increase the size of the general purposes room in the proposed extension of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare in line with the extra classroom accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 225asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
225 Mr. Deenihan asked the Minister for Education and Science when phase two of the successful junior cycle physical education support service will commence; the number of schools that will be involved; if the programme will continue in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 224asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
224 Mr. O’Dowd asked the Minister for Education and Science the steps he proposes to take to rectify the anomaly that has arisen in Drogheda Institute of Further Education due to the capping of enrolment in the post-leaving certificate sector at 2003-04 levels, whereby the DIFE will be funded for 396 students in a facility that was built for 500.
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Question· writtenPQ 223asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
223 Mr. Healy asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will approve Cahir boys’ national school, Cahir, County Tipperary, for the pilot scheme for the construction of much needed classrooms and physical education facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 222asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
222 Mr. Healy asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will remove the capping of pupil numbers at Rathkeevin national school, Clonmel; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 221asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
221 Cecilia Keaveney asked the Minister for Education and Science the support which exists for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal to tarmac a play area to help facilitate ease of movement for a special needs child in a wheelchair; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 220asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
220 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science the initiatives his Department has put in place to provide additional second level schools in the Navan area for the increasing number of students who will have left primary schools in Navan and require access to second level education; the information his Department has received regarding the increasing numbers of students; if a report has been published regarding an analysis of population increase in Navan, which gives an indication of the increased numbers of second level schools required in the Navan area over the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 219asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
219 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Education and Science if a one-to-one remedial teacher will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who has been assessed with very special needs and is unable to read or write.
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Question· writtenPQ 218asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
218 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction the proposed Sapling’s ABA school in Rathfarnham, south County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 217asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
217 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science if the new proposal regarding the retirement age for national teachers will apply to the final year students in Mary Immaculate training college, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 216asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
216 Mr. Crawford asked the Minister for Education and Science the elements of the McIver report he has put in place; his views on whether the PLC colleges are giving a tremendous service and that the review initiated by his Department can no longer be ignored; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 215asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
215 Mr. Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide funding to upgrade the heating and security measures, including consideration of the installation of closed circuit television cameras, at St. Francis junior and senior schools, Priorswood, Dublin 17.
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Question· writtenPQ 214asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
214 Mr. S. Power asked the Minister for Education and Science if a decision has been made on the future use of lands and buildings adjoining Gaelscoil Cill Dara, Curragh, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 213asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
213 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science when resource hours for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford, who was diagnosed in 2002 with dyslexia, will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 212asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
212 Mr. Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will make funding available for the provision of a small prefab to be used both as a library and for use by the resource teacher of Gaelscoil Barra, Faussagh Road, Cabra, Dublin, which is without accommodation.
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Question· writtenPQ 211asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
211 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the members appointed by him to a board to examine the future of Irish education; the salaries or expenses payable to these members in the course of their duties on this board; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 210asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
210 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to a matter regarding a college (details supplied); if he will consider reinstating the stay in school retention initiative at this college; if not, if he will continue funding at current levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 209asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
209 Mr. Deasy asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in appointing one-to-one teaching for a person (details supplied) in County Waterford who has been assessed and approved for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 208asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
208 Ms Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of staff appointed by him from outside the Civil Service since the general election in 2002; the job descriptions for these staff; the salaries and expenses paid to these staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 207asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
207 Ms B. Moynihan-Cronin asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of the new community school in Dingle, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 206asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
206 Mr. O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Science his plans for the provision of further school places in the Tallaght area to deal with the additional house building approved by South Dublin County Council and which is now in various phases of development; if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need to deal with this challenge; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 205asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
205 Mr. O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Science if he has verified the need for early start school places in Jobstown, Tallaght, Dublin 24; if his attention has been drawn to the serious demand in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 204asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
204 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Education and Science the schools in County Limerick which will obtain assistance through the summer work scheme by his Department.
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Question· writtenPQ 203asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
203 Mr. F. McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Science if assistance will be given to pupils and staff at Scoil Caitríona primary school, Coolcock, Dublin, in their efforts to obtain a resource teachers and special needs assistant to improve the education service for children with special needs.
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Question· writtenPQ 202asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
202 Ms Lynch asked the Minister for Education and Science if the building of schools by public private partnerships has been an economically sound decision; if the running costs of these schools has decreased or increased in view of the fact that these schools have been operating for more than a year; and if he will commission a report to quantify exactly the overall cost-benefit of these public private partnership agreements for schools.
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Question· writtenPQ 201asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
201 Ms Lynch asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the request by a person (details supplied) to recognise the dental nursing one year certificate course at the Belfast Institute of Further Education; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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