Parliamentary questions

Disadvantaged Status

Charlie McConalogue

250. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that are currently designated a post-primary DEIS school and the number of pupils in this category. [40752/13]

School Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

251. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with five teachers. [40753/13]

School Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

252. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with four teachers. [40754/13]

School Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

253. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with three teachers. [40755/13]

School Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

254. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with two teachers. [40756/13]

School Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

255. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with one teacher. [40757/13]

School Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

256. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the number of learning support teachers in our schools this year and every year since 1997. [40758/13]

Special Educational Needs Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

257. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the number of resource teachers in our schools this year and every year since 1997. [40759/13]

Special Educational Needs Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

258. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the number of special needs assistants in our schools this year and every year since 1997. [40760/13]

Special Educational Needs Expenditure

Charlie McConalogue

259. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the amount of funding given to special schools and to mainstream schools with special classes in each year since the funding was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40761/13]

Special Educational Needs Expenditure

Charlie McConalogue

260. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special schools in the country. [40762/13]

Special Educational Needs Expenditure

Charlie McConalogue

261. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mainstream schools with special classes in the country. [40763/13]

School Staffing

Charlie McConalogue

262. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills he number of guidance counsellors working in our schools. [40764/13]

Capitation Grants

Charlie McConalogue

263. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the rate of capitation grant paid this year and every year since 1997. [40765/13]

Capitation Grants

Charlie McConalogue

264. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent on the capitation grant paid this year and every year since 1997. [40766/13]

Capitation Grants

Charlie McConalogue

265. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the total amount spent on the school book grant this year and every year since 1997. [40767/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Jonathan O'Brien

266. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of hours the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board has met since it was formed this year. [40775/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Jonathan O'Brien

267. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills his view on whether it is sufficient that the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board meets once a month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40776/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Jonathan O'Brien

268. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider directing the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board to hold meetings on a series of consecutive days until it has resolved outstanding issues. [40777/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Jonathan O'Brien

269. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on the work of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board to date including costs and expenses claimed by each member. [40778/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Jonathan O'Brien

270. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board has determined the range of approved services within four classes of service stipulated in the Act, that is, mental health services including counselling and psychological support, health and personal social services, education services and housing services; the criteria by reference to which it will make decisions in respect of applications to those services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40779/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Jonathan O'Brien

271. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the salary being paid to the chief executive officer of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board will be deducted from the €110 million RISF. [40780/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Jonathan O'Brien

272. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which funds from the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund will be released to survivors of institutional abuse; and if the board has the requisite powers to refund former residents of institutions who have expended personal funds on health and other services stipulated in the Act before or since the establishment day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40781/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Jonathan O'Brien

273. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if all 15,000 names and addresses of former residents of institutions who received awards at the Residential Institutions Redress Board have been transferred to the RISF board; if he will state the precise date of the data transfer and format or formats used for the transfer and explain the reason such data transfer appears to have occurred before any applications have been considered by the RISF board; if he will provide assurances regarding the security of the data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40782/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Establishment

Jonathan O'Brien

274. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money transferred from the former Education Finance Board to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund on the establishment day; if he will explain the way funds have been expended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40783/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Jonathan O'Brien

275. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he believes the 2012 Act establishing the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund contains the requisite powers to allow the RISF board to continue funding annually renewable life-skills courses for qualifying former residents of institutions commenced under the authority of the former Education Finance Board, the dissolved body, but not completed or renewed due to depletion of funds at that board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40784/13]

Residential Institutions Issues

Jonathan O'Brien

276. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet the group Right to Peace around the issue of statutory redress services for survivors of institutional abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40785/13]

Third Level Fees

Terence Flanagan

277. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the fees status in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40796/13]

University Libraries

Michael Healy-Rae

278. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 18 June 2013, his views on a matter regarding libraries in a publicly-funded university (details supplied); and if he will clarify the legislative position in this regard. [40930/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Sean Fleming

279. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of capital spending incurred directly within his Department as a result of measures undertaken as part of the 2011 Jobs Initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40937/13]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Sandra McLellan

280. Deputy Sandra McLellan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the distance from college for students to be considered eligible for the non-adjacent grant to cover a distance less than 45km (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40966/13]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Sandra McLellan

281. Deputy Sandra McLellan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons persons earning less than the income allowed for the special college grant rate are penalised and ineligible for that rate if they are not in receipt of a social welfare payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40979/13]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio

Gerry Adams

282. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 24 September 2013, if he will confirm the number of students in each classroom in a school (details supplied); and if he considers the current situation satisfactory. [40980/13]

Student Grants Statistics

Charlie McConalogue

283. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students at third level who, having previously qualified for maintenance grants, no longer qualify as a result of reductions in the income threshold in budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40990/13]

Child Protection Issues

Pat Deering

284. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Education and Skills the protection that exists for children and teachers who are regularly in a position where there is only one adult present with a number of young children; whether this is in breach of best practice for child protection and does it leave teachers open to allegations of inappropriate behaviour. [41039/13]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio

Willie Penrose

285. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will pursue all possible avenues to avoid increasing the pupil-teacher ratio in primary schools in budget 2014 due to, for example, the fact that such a mooted change would see a six teacher school reduced to a five teacher school with teachers shared between eight classes, meaning class sizes increasing from the mid-20s to an average of 31 or 32 children per classroom, which would have a significant impact on such students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41095/13]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Seán Kyne

286. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been an increase in the past 12 months in the contributions being made by the 18 religious orders to the statutory fund designed to make restitution to the victims of abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41106/13]

Physical Education

Jack Wall

287. Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a national school sports module (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41112/13]

School Curriculum

Seán Kyne

288. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to the restructuring of the Irish language curriculum at senior cycle with a view to introducing a more conversationalist focus or a separate subject which would emphasise oral skills and ability. [41115/13]

Regulatory Impact Assessment Data

Joanna Tuffy

289. Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on all regulatory impact statements carried out on Bills in his Department since this Government took office to date; if he will list these Bills in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41592/13]

Public Sector Staff Remuneration

Finian McGrath

290. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are any public sector employees earning less than the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40447/13]

Property Valuations

Dara Murphy

291. Deputy Dara Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the mechanism available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork to receive a more realistic and sustainable rate valuation on a property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40712/13]

Referendum Expenditure

Terence Flanagan

292. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the budgeted cost for the two forthcoming referendums with a breakdown regarding the staff costs and other costs and to state the budgeted and actual cost of the children's referendum with a breakdown in costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41099/13]

State Properties

Jim Daly

293. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a decision will issue to a community (details supplied) in County Cork regarding the handing over of a disused Garda station to the community project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40534/13]

Official Languages Act 2003 Compliance

Gerry Adams

294. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the arrangements put in place by his Department to ensure compliance with the Official Languages Act, specifically requirements for signage in departmental offices, schools, third level institutions; details of any assessments undertaken by departmental staff to assess requirements; the number of signs assessed; when any corrective actions were put in place; if any or all of the actions taken by his Department were within the designated timeframes set out in legislation, and if not the reasoning for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40551/13]

Legislative Process

Kevin Humphreys

295. Deputy Kevin Humphreys asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the Acts or specific provisions of Acts under his Department that have not yet been commenced; if it is intended to commence the provision in each case; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40604/13]

EU Directives

Catherine Murphy

296. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of compliance with European Union directives within his ministerial areas of responsibility; the current fines resulting from non-compliance and potential fines resulting from present non-compliance to which the State is or may be exposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40640/13]

Departmental Staff Remuneration

Jonathan O'Brien

297. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total salary cost for each Department for the most recent five years for which data is available. [40679/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Sean Fleming

298. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of capital spending incurred directly across all Departments as a results of measures undertaken as part of the 2011 Jobs Initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40934/13]

Office of Public Works Properties

Róisín Shortall

299. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the proposed use for a public building in Dublin 11 (details supplied), which is in the control of the Office of Public Works and which has been lying idle for more than three years. [40997/13]