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Tue, 8 Oct 2013
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Prison Staff
Mary Lou McDonald
192. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the recent appointment of a head teacher to Shelton Abbey open prison in Arklow was preceded by an open competition; the number of applicants that applied for the position and the body that had overall responsibility for the appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41791/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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School Transport Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
250. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if Bus Éireann make a profit from school transport in view of the existence of minutes of a meeting on 29 June 2011, which he attended, with Bus Éireann and his Department, where Bus Éireann chief executive and its company accountant explained that there was a fund containing a surplus of €2 million-€3 million from the payments received by Bus Éireann from his Department for delivery of the school transport scheme services. [38675/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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School Transport Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
251. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the last year in which Bus Éireann made a profit from school transport. [38677/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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School Transport Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
252. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish the FGS report commissioned in 2008-2009 that investigated direct and indirect charges for school transport. [38678/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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School Transport Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
253. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the arrangement between Bus Éireann and his Department for the provision of school transport services is of a commercial nature. [38679/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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School Transport Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
254. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if any profit is made by Bus Éireann from his Department for the provision of school transport services; the amount of profit that has been made each year since 2004 in compliance with the EU Commission directives on transparency. [38680/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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School Transport Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
255. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he personally ever met anybody who expressed an interest in tendering for the school transport services that Bus Éireann currently receives payment for from his Department. [38681/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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School Transport Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
256. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons his Department gave to the EU Commission for not putting the school transport scheme out to public tender; if these reasons are the same reasons that were given to the Public Accounts Committee by the Secretary General in February 2013 and in the commercial High Court in the case taken by Student Transport Scheme Limited against his Department in 2012 in relation to the scheme. [38684/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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Education and Training Boards
Mary Lou McDonald
419. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the full year saving to the Exchequer if all Education and Training Board CEOs salaries were reduced by 10%. [38642/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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Teaching Contracts
Mary Lou McDonald
420. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the full year saving to the Exchequer if the weekly teaching hours of third level lecturers were increased to 18 per week. [38643/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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School Textbooks
Mary Lou McDonald
421. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the full year cost of providing free schoolbooks to primary and secondary school children. [38645/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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School Staffing
Mary Lou McDonald
422. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the monetary full year saving to the Exchequer arising from the Haddington Road agreement measure to increase academic staff working hours by an additional 78 hours per annum; if he will provide the monetary full year additional saving if weekly hours were increased by an additional 45 minutes per week on top of the Haddington Road agreement additional hours. [38646/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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Exchequer Savings
Mary Lou McDonald
428. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the full year saving to the Exchequer if all commercial semi State CEO's pay under the aegis of his Department were reduced by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39261/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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Exchequer Savings
Mary Lou McDonald
429. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the full year saving to the Exchequer if all non-commercial State sponsored bodies CEO salaries under the aegis of his Department were reduced by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39270/13]
Wed, 18 Sep 2013
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Exchequer Savings
Mary Lou McDonald
430. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the full year saving to the Exchequer if all State agency board members fees, non commercial State sponsored bodies and commercial semi State companies, under the aegis of his Department were reduced by 25%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39280/13]
Thu, 18 Jul 2013
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Ministerial Staff
Mary Lou McDonald
235. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the staffing levels of the private offices and constituency offices of Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department; the salary of each; the same figures for this time in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36498/13]
Thu, 18 Jul 2013
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Exchequer Savings
Mary Lou McDonald
236. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the saving to the Exchequer if the pay of all his special advisers, and those of his Ministers of State, were capped at the first point on the principal officer pay scale. [36513/13]
Wed, 17 Jul 2013
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Departmental Staff Rehiring
Mary Lou McDonald
103. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired civil or public servants who have been retained by his Department since January 2013 on a short-term contract or consultancy basis where normal abatement rules do not apply. [35842/13]
Wed, 17 Jul 2013
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Haddington Road Agreement Savings
Mary Lou McDonald
105. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a yearly detailed breakdown of the sectoral measures and accompanying savings for the duration of the Haddington Road Agreement applicable in his Department and-or non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department. [35859/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Speech and Language Therapy
Mary Lou McDonald
323. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the significant delays in speech and language therapeutic input for children of schoolgoing age and that the Health Service Executive has stated these delays of one year and over will grow due to increasing demands and constraints on the service that waiting times of more than one year will remain for each subsequent block of therapy session required; and the provision he has made for these children when they inevitably require special needs assistance in class. [34346/13]