Parliamentary questions

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

347. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if this State will be setting a minimum value for which it is willing to sell Irish bank shares to the ESM, and if such a policy is to be pursued. [39236/12]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

348. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if a study has been undertaken to ascertain the long term economic value of current shares held by the State in Irish banks. [39237/12]

NTMA Bonds

Terence Flanagan

349. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Finance if esoteric assets were considered as an alternative to the recently launched National Treasury Management Agency bonds; if they were not considered, if they will be in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39264/12]

Fuel Laundering

Brendan Smith

350. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Finance the proposals that he has to implement further measures to deal with diesel laundering and the resulting revenue loss to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39349/12]

State Bodies Expenditure

Sean Fleming

351. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Finance the number of State bodies that have been set up since 9 March 2011; the rationale behind these decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39997/12]

Land Acquisition

Pearse Doherty

352. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the payments made by the State to private land owners in 2010 and 2011 to acquire land for use in the public capital programme. [40010/12]

Ministerial Adviser Appointments

Sean Fleming

353. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Finance the names of special advisers for whom salary increases have been requested; the amount requested; the details of those granted increases and the amount by which they were increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40021/12]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Michael Healy-Rae

354. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37806/12]

Special Educational Needs Staffing

Jack Wall

355. Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason home tuition hours have been withdrawn in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38877/12]

Third Level Admissions Reform

Jerry Buttimer

356. Deputy Jerry Buttimer asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change the college entry requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36999/12]

Teaching Qualifications

Jerry Buttimer

357. Deputy Jerry Buttimer asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will instruct the Teaching Council to recognise degrees in engineering, which are by their very nature dominated by mathematics, for the purposes of registration of mathematics teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37000/12]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Brendan Griffin

358. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a higher education access route grant will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37001/12]

School Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

359. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Donegal may appoint a mainstream teacher to the position that is on appeal an outcome of which will be determined at the October appeals board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37002/12]

Special Educational Needs Staffing

Eoghan Murphy

360. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the following case regarding a reduced allocation of a special needs assistant in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6. [37006/12]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Peter Mathews

361. Deputy Peter Mathews asked the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance available in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37010/12]

School Transport Provision

John Perry

362. Deputy John Perry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties encountered by a family (details supplied) in County Sligo in relation to their school transport. [37014/12]

School Enrolments

Arthur Spring

363. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the projected enrolment figures for 2012/13 for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry and based on these figures, the number of teachers that the school will be allocated. [37015/12]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Pat Breen

364. Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Education and Skills the options for funding or grants in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37016/12]

Departmental Bodies Expenditure

Dara Calleary

365. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of agencies, authorities, boards, committees, working groups, tribunals, council services, task forces, agencies or other quangos set up by his Department since February 2011; the number abolished since then; the extra cost of quangos which were established; the savings from the abolition of quangos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37243/12]

Departmental Bodies Expenditure

Dara Calleary

366. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of each quango in his Department; the amount expected to be saved from the mergers of quangos in his Department; the basis for this figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37259/12]