Parliamentary questions

Ministerial Appointments

Micheál Martin

1. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Taoiseach the board appointments he has made recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50123/13]

Ministerial Appointments

Joe Higgins

2. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he has made any board appointments recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9025/14]

State Visits

Gerry Adams

3. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Japan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52527/13]

State Visits

Gerry Adams

4. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach if he reached any specific agreements with the Government of Japan on job creation and investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52528/13]

State Visits

Micheál Martin

5. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Taoiseach if he held any bilateral meetings in Japan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52569/13]

State Visits

Joe Higgins

6. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he has had with Japanese Government officials during his recent visit to Japan. [53717/13]

State Visits

Micheál Martin

7. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Taoiseach if the issue of Japanese-Chinese relations was discussed at the bilateral with Prime Minister Abe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53723/13]

State Visits

Richard Boyd Barrett

8. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings with the Japanese Government during his visit to Japan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6349/14]

Official Engagements

Gerry Adams

9. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach if he discussed with the US Vice President Joe Biden, during their conversation in Japan, the absence of a US ambassador to Ireland; if the Vice President clarified the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52591/13]

Official Engagements

Gerry Adams

10. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach if he discussed with the US Vice President Joe Biden during his recent discussions in Japan the continuing plight of the undocumented Irish living in the United States. [52592/13]

Official Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

11. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with US Vice President Joe Biden in Japan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52668/13]

Official Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

12. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if the issue of corporation tax here was raised at his meeting with US Vice President Joe Biden in Japan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52669/13]

Official Engagements

Joe Higgins

13. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the US Vice President; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53718/13]

Official Engagements

Micheál Martin

14. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Taoiseach if Japanese-Chinese relations were discussed at his bilateral with US Vice President Biden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53724/13]

School Enrolments Data

Charlie McConalogue

99. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools from the September 2013 returns on pupil numbers that fall into the following categories: schools with 85 pupils, 54 or 55 pupils, and 17 to 19 pupils; the number of schools in the September 2013 pupil returns that are in each of the categories 81 to 84 pupils, 49 to 53 pupils, and 12 to 16 pupils, and therefore already subject to increases in pupil-teacher thresholds introduced by him; when he will publish the full details of the September 2013 pupil returns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9361/14]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Jonathan O'Brien

100. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the anomalies within the Student Universal Support Ireland grant application system that are causing extreme hardship for many students. [9431/14]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Finian McGrath

101. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding providing resource hours for children with Down's syndrome in mainstream schools. [9352/14]

State Examinations Reviews

Charlie McConalogue

102. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times and dates on which he has personally engaged in meetings with the teaching partners to discuss junior certificate reform proposals since becoming Minister; the status of progress on implementing the junior certificate reform programme; if he will commit to independent assessment of the new junior cycle student award as recommended by the National Council on Curriculum and Assessment working group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9362/14]

Schools Amalgamation

Jonathan O'Brien

103. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are proposals by a number of patron bodies to amalgamate primary schools and the distress that this is causing to parents and pupils as a result; and his plans to address this situation. [9432/14]

Educational Reform

Patrick O'Donovan

104. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the recent reports into the benefit or otherwise of giving homework to children in primary schools, if he will consider engaging with the stakeholders to assess the effectiveness of homework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9098/14]