Parliamentary questions

Momentum Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

759. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills the difficulties persons may have being forced on to MOMENTUM courses while not being able to afford the cost of getting to class for the placement; if she will indicate the use of these courses in the Dún Laoghaire area, the practice of the Department of Social Protection Intreo centre and local employment services having to meet targets and quotas to fill these places; and the number of persons in the Dún Laoghaire constituency currently in placements in MOMENTUM courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49533/14]

Psychological Assessments

Michael McGrath

760. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a primary school pupil (details supplied) in County Cork will have an assessment of their needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49535/14]

Psychological Assessments

Charlie McConalogue

761. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 477 of 18 November 2014, if she will engage directly with the counselling division of the Psychological Society of Ireland and meet directly with a person (details supplied) to discuss the response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49536/14]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Billy Kelleher

762. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will be assessed as they need an up to date educational report to apply for reasonable accommodations for them to be able to sit their leaving certificate in June 2015. [49550/14]

Schools Building Projects Status

Billy Timmins

763. Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow currently on schedule for delivery by the end of 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49558/14]

Schools Building Projects Expenditure

Jonathan O'Brien

764. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the capital funding applications open to Salerno secondary school to fund the building of a multi-purpose sports and general activities hall at its site on Taylor's Hill in County Galway; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that planning permission has been granted and approved, a significant portion of funding has been raised locally and at present it has to ferry pupils to other such facilities at a great cost to the school and the Department; if there may be a possibility of joint funding a project with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport; and if that option has been investigated by her Department. [49562/14]

School Staff

Maureen O'Sullivan

765. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 9 December 2014, if the recommendation is that schools should differentiate between English additional language provision and literacy support provision in order that support is appropriately targeted (details supplied); if she is satisfied that schools have adequate resources, staff and training to deliver this kind of support. [49569/14]

School Accommodation Provision

Charlie McConalogue

766. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Kildare may permanently remain in the school in which it is currently occupying; if not, the reasons for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49596/14]

School Staff

Michael McCarthy

767. Deputy Michael McCarthy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will be provided to the extension of secondments of directors of education centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49597/14]

Home Tuition Scheme Provision

Thomas P. Broughan

768. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 194 to 197, inclusive, of 16 October 2014, in view of the internal e-mail sent by one of her officials on 18 June 2007 stating that there are two similar collective models operating in a similar fashion, the reason for the apparent discrepancy between this document and her previous reply where she clarified that her Department is not aware of other groups of parents having come to the attention of her Department over five years ago in relation to group arrangements for home tuition. [49613/14]

Schools Building Contractors

Peadar Tóibín

769. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the pay and conditions of employment clause attached to the Kishoge community college, Lucan, County Dublin, public works contract. [49623/14]

Home Tuition Scheme Funding

Thomas P. Broughan

770. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 12 November 2014, the reason for her Department stating in its correspondence of 1 November 2010 (details supplied) that where parents are sanctioned home tuition by her Department, funding is provided directly to the parents of the children in question when this was not in fact the case as her Department already had an arrangement in place for a number of years to make direct payments to just one private commercial organisation. [49634/14]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Joe Carey

771. Deputy Joe Carey asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on advances her Department has made with respect to policy on physical restraint intervention from a health and safety perspective as it pertains to primary schools especially those that run an ASD unit in parallel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49641/14]

State Examinations

Robert Troy

772. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if circumstances may be changed where a repeat leaving certificate student may sit one exam per day due to medical conditions. [49662/14]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Sandra McLellan

773. Deputy Sandra McLellan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is not entitled to a Student Universal Support Ireland grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49697/14]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Michael Healy-Rae

774. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding special needs assistant hours in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49711/14]

Schools Building Projects Applications

Michael McGrath

775. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for capital funding for a sports hall by a post-primary school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49757/14]

Departmental Bodies Data

Patrick O'Donovan

776. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of agencies, quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by her Department which have been scrapped, merged or reduced since this Government was formed; the amount saved in each case; the reduction in staff as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1012/15]

Decentralisation Programme Data

Patrick O'Donovan

777. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the agencies or sections from her Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by decentralised personnel travelling to their base Department in that period. [1027/15]

Apprenticeship Programmes

Michael Healy-Rae

778. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the situation that enough persons (details supplied) with suitable trades are not becoming available in the workforce here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1044/15]

State Examinations Appeals

Michael McNamara

779. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible to challenge the chief examiner's assessment of an answer in a leaving certificate appeal; if so, the appropriate procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1054/15]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Brendan Griffin

780. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding funding for a course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1059/15]

State Examinations

Clare Daly

781. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list the additional attributes for students which would be achieved by teachers correcting their own students' work in a classroom which is not being carried out which would improve further the learning experience in each subject at second level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1068/15]

Educational Disadvantage

Finian McGrath

782. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a bursary scheme for children graduated from DEIS schools; and if so, the application procedure for this scheme. [1076/15]

Child Protection

Seán Ó Fearghaíl

783. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have not implemented the Stay Safe programme; the number that have indicated to her Department that they will not be implementing it or will do so subject to qualification; if she will provide in tabular form a breakdown of where these schools are located; when the implementation of the Stay Safe programme was last audited by her Department; if the audit showed that there are schools that indicated they were having problems implementing the policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1081/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Jonathan O'Brien

784. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the starting salary grade for a newly employed teacher at both primary and post primary level for each year from 2005 to 2014; the available allowances to a newly employed teacher; if she has had discussions with Department officials or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding reviewing this system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1084/15]

Schools Building Projects Applications

Pearse Doherty

785. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Donegal has yet to be provided with suitable long-term accommodation; when the construction of a new school building will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1098/15]

Further Education and Training Programmes Funding

Eric J. Byrne

786. Deputy Eric Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Skills the options open to an institution (details supplied) regarding funding for courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1111/15]

Departmental Expenditure

Dara Calleary

787. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Education and Skills the total moneys paid by her Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers under the Action Plan for Jobs in each year since and including 2012; if she will provide in a tabular form the list of those organisations who received money; her Department's procurement policy regarding this work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1135/15]

School Accommodation

Michael McCarthy

788. Deputy Michael McCarthy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for funding from a school (details supplied) in County Cork; the status of the application; when a decision will be reached; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1153/15]

Education and Training Boards

Thomas Pringle

789. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form for each of the past three years the number of external training programmes tendered and delivered in counties Donegal, Mayo and Galway education and training board areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1155/15]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Dessie Ellis

790. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase special needs assistance in the schools in Ballymun, Dublin in view of the current lack of sufficient assistance in the area and that children most in need are suffering because of it. [1191/15]

Higher Education Institutions

Jonathan O'Brien

791. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures in place to monitor use of public moneys provided to the Union of Students of Ireland. [1268/15]

Data Protection

Anthony Lawlor

792. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the primary online database, if she will provide in tabular form the Government Departments including her Department, agencies and others who will have access to or are provided student information from the database; if she will provide a list of the precise information or parts of the system that each will have access to; the reason information should be retained until the child reaches the age of 30; if additional comments added at the discretion of the school will be visible to Departments, agencies and others or could be transferred as part of the process of migrating the student file to another school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1338/15]

Departmental Legal Cases

Finian McGrath

793. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding victims of sexual abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1340/15]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Brendan Griffin

794. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills when assistive technology will be made available in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1342/15]

Schools Building Projects Status

Jonathan O'Brien

795. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a permanent building will be found for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [1348/15]

Schools Site Acquisitions

Jonathan O'Brien

796. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the purchase of a site for the new community college in Carrigtwohill, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1349/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Ciaran Lynch

797. Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the completion of the internal job evaluation to be carried out in University College Cork to establish the correct rate of pay for employees of the Tyndall National Institute; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1353/15]

Institutes of Technology

Mary Lou McDonald

798. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills her view on whether it is appropriate for an educational institution (details supplied) to withhold a qualification from a student on the grounds that exam fees have not been paid. [1359/15]

National Educational Welfare Board Remit

Jonathan O'Brien

799. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the legal threshold for excluding students from primary and post-primary schools on a temporary and permanent basis. [1367/15]

Student Support Schemes

Charlie McConalogue

800. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to postgraduate students in the arts and humanities with the exception of the excellent schemes operated by the Irish Research Council; the impact her decision to abolish postgraduate grant support has had on research in the arts and humanities; if she will restore postgraduate grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1372/15]

Schools Establishment

Niall Collins

801. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish the Report on the Configuration and Development of Post-Primary Schools in Limerick City, Croom and Pallaskenry for the period 2014-2024; when action will be taken on this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1374/15]

School Transport Eligibility

Finian McGrath

802. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding support required in respect of a person in County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1377/15]

Data Protection

Jonathan O'Brien

803. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any penalty for parents who do not supply PPS numbers of their children to schools as part of the school surveys of pupils on behalf of her Department. [1417/15]

Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís

Éamon Ó Cuív

804. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad gráid na bpost dá mbeidh státseirbhísigh atá inniúil sa Ghaeilge agus sa Bhéarla ag teastáil; cad é líon na bpost sin a bhfuil duine leis an gcumas cuí Gaeilge agus Béarla iontu cheana féin, arna bhriseadh síos de réir gráid; cén cháilíocht Ghaeilge atá riachtanach do na poist sin; i gcás nach bhfuil an treoir ón Roinn Caiteachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe comhlíonta, cad é údar na moille agus cén uair a dhéanfar an scrúdú; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [1429/15]

Departmental Expenditure

Barry Cowen

805. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for her Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the costs incurred from use of the Ministerial allowance; a list of occasions for which photographers were booked; the photographers used; a breakdown of costs associated with each occasion that a photographer was used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1444/15]

Public Relations Contracts Data

Barry Cowen

806. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; a list of uses of the external public relations firm; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1452/15]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Ciaran Lynch

807. Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Education and Skills the changes proposed regarding learning support and resource teacher allocation; if she will address the concerns raised by a school principal (details supplied) in County Cork [1492/15]

Schools Building Projects Administration

Peadar Tóibín

808. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of construction-related projects her Department and State bodies under the aegis of her Department have signed public works contracts with a company (details supplied); if she will provide in tabular form a list of each of the sites; the date on which each contract was signed; the name of the State body that has contracted the company to complete the work; and the form of contract for public works applicable to each project. [1497/15]