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Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Religious Discrimination
Clare Daly
451. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of reports (details supplied) which support the obligation on the State to ensure that every child can attend his or her local national school without any religious discrimination on entry, the steps she will take to end this practice. [3465/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Visiting Teacher Service
David Stanton
452. Deputy David Stanton asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 877 of 4 November 2014, if her officials have completed their consideration of the review of the visiting teacher service; the changes she plans to make to the service as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3484/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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School Enrolments
Olivia Mitchell
453. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that offers of places in the only new autism spectrum disorder classes in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area, County Dublin, are being restricted due to the school’s sibling and religious entry criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3493/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Olivia Mitchell
454. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made to increase the number of autism spectrum disorder places in mainstream secondary schools in south Dublin in view of the disparity between the number of places available at primary and secondary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3494/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Michael Healy-Rae
455. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a request for assistive technology has not been granted in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3502/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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School Funding
Brendan Griffin
456. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the board of management of a Catholic primary school will be made liable for the recent compensation award to a teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3511/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Visiting Teacher Service
Patrick O'Donovan
457. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review carried out into the visiting teacher service; when the review will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3518/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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School Curriculum
Terence Flanagan
458. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to making computing a compulsory subject for the leaving certificate (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3530/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Teachers' Remuneration
Lucinda Creighton
459. Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of Circular 0008/2013 her views on a situation (details supplied) pertaining to a number of persons who are excluded from receipt of a qualification allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3554/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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State Examinations
Finian McGrath
460. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student (details supplied) in Dublin 15 with a learning difficulty has been refused a waiver for the leaving certificate when a waiver was provided for the junior certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3557/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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School Funding
Derek Nolan
461. Deputy Derek Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the amount invested by her Department into schools in County Galway, broken down by year between 2011 and 2014 and by primary and post-primary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3569/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Residential Institutions
Clare Daly
462. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been expended to date by Caranua and under which headings; and the number of persons that received payment, including administrative costs. [3571/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Schools Building Regulations
Eoghan Murphy
463. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of her Department for new school buildings; and the provision of access for disabled children, particularly where the new building has more than one floor. [3581/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Institutes of Technology Staff
Michael McGrath
464. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in each institute of technology employed in permanent wholetime posts; the number of staff in each institute of technology employed on contracts of indefinite duration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3613/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Schools Building Projects Applications
Seán Kyne
465. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the capital application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if it will be included on the next five year capital programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3614/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Schools Building Projects Applications
Denis Naughten
466. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills when the construction of a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon will commence; the other schools to be included in the bundle; when these projects will be ready to commence construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3636/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Schools Health and Safety
Andrew Doyle
467. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Education and Skills when the external lighting in the internal road network within the school campus at Blacklion, Greystones, County Wicklow will be made operational; her views that the absence of functioning lighting in a campus containing two national schools and a secondary school represents a significant danger and hazard to children, staff and parents; if her Department has consulted with the Health and Safety Authority in relation to the absence of such lighting in a workplace under the ownership of her Department; the interim steps that will be taken to provide such lighting pending any permanent solution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3690/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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School Management
Terence Flanagan
468. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding loco parentis in a classroom situation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3699/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Teachers' Remuneration
Fergus O'Dowd
469. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding teachers' pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3702/15]
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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School Curriculum
Jonathan O'Brien
470. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on discussions with teachers since the strike action on 22 January 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3703/15]