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Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
Jonathan O'Brien
48. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to implement proposals to assess capital assets and income when means testing student grants in the 2013-2014 academic year; if he will confirm the publication date of the findings of the Higher Educational Authority National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030. [43233/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Jonathan O'Brien
74. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to address the continuing refusal of the religious congregations to meet their share of the costs of the compensation bill for victims of institutional residential abuse; and if he will provide an update on the establishment of the fund. [43090/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Third Level Fees
Jonathan O'Brien
104. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the impact of increases in the student contribution fee to be implemented from 2013-2015; and if they are sustainable for low income families who are marginally above the grant threshold. [43091/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Tax Code
Jonathan O'Brien
138. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Finance if schools have experienced difficulties resulting from the directive of the Revenue Commissioners to regard school boards of management as principal contractors in respect of Relevant Contracts Tax and VAT, with effect from 1 January 2012; his views on the challenges that school boards are experiencing in complying with the very significant administrative burden arising from operating Relevant Contracts Tax. [43105/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Teaching Council of Ireland
Jonathan O'Brien
194. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Teaching Council, a self-funded agency responsible for the professional development of teachers, is being prevented from hiring an additional 16 staff out of its own funds because it is subject to the public sector recruitment embargo; and his views on whether employing these additional staff would help reduce the backlog in Garda vetting procedures and assessing foreign qualifications. [43234/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Departmental Staff Data
Jonathan O'Brien
237. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the current staffing details of the Inspectorate including the numbers of inspectors at each grade in each business area. [43289/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Departmental Staff Data
Jonathan O'Brien
238. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools inspectors who retired in each of the past five years. [43290/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Departmental Staff Data
Jonathan O'Brien
239. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools inspectors recruited in each of the past five years. [43291/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Psychological Services
Jonathan O'Brien
240. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the current staffing details of the National Educational Psychological Service including the numbers of psychologists at each grade in each business area of the country. [43292/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Psychological Services
Jonathan O'Brien
241. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service who retired in each of the past five years. [43293/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Psychological Services
Jonathan O'Brien
242. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service recruited in each of the past five years. [43294/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Special Educational Needs Staffing
Jonathan O'Brien
243. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the numbers of special education needs organisers in each county. [43295/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Special Educational Needs Staffing
Jonathan O'Brien
244. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education needs organisers who retired in each of the past five years. [43296/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Special Educational Needs Staffing
Jonathan O'Brien
245. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education needs organisers recruited in each of the past five years. [43297/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Teacher Statistics
Jonathan O'Brien
246. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary teachers who began probation during the last academic year. [43301/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Teacher Statistics
Jonathan O'Brien
247. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary teachers who successfully completed the probationary process during the past academic year. [43302/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Teacher Statistics
Jonathan O'Brien
248. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary teachers who have thus far applied to undertake the probationary process in this academic year. [43303/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Pupil Data Collection
Jonathan O'Brien
249. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a database of primary school pupils. [43304/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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School Accommodation
Jonathan O'Brien
250. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details on a county basis of rented school accommodation at primary level including the date of installation and annual rent for each school in the country. [43305/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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School Accommodation
Jonathan O'Brien
251. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details on a county basis of rented school accommodation at post primary level including the date of installation and annual rent for each school in the country. [43306/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Schools Administration
Jonathan O'Brien
252. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of any work being progressed by his Department to improve its systems in order to facilitate access to accurate and up-to-date information on individual schools, both to ensure more efficient use of official time and to reduce the administrative burden on schools. [43307/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Schools Building Projects Applications
Jonathan O'Brien
253. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he has taken any decisions on project progression in the school building programme that did not accord with recommendations made to him by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43308/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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School Staffing
Jonathan O'Brien
254. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who qualified as primary teachers in the Six Counties who were appointed to temporary positions in primary schools in each of the past ten years. [43309/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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School Staffing
Jonathan O'Brien
255. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who qualified as primary teachers in the Six Counties who were appointed to permanent positions in primary schools in each of the past ten years. [43310/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Teacher Training Provision
Jonathan O'Brien
256. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary teachers who trained in another jurisdiction that undertook the SCG/OCG during the last academic year. [43311/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Teacher Training Provision
Jonathan O'Brien
257. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary teachers who trained in another jurisdiction who passed the SCG/OCG during the last academic year. [43312/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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School Textbooks
Jonathan O'Brien
258. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to examine the free books scheme for necessitous pupils in primary schools scheme in view of the fact that funding to schools did not increase this year. [43313/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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School Enrolments
Jonathan O'Brien
259. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of Section 29 Appeals undertaken in each of the past five years including the outcomes of those appeals. [43314/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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School Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
260. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of funding from the capital budget expended on the provision of emergency funding to primary schools in each of the past five years; and the number of schools that received this funding. [43315/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Legislative Programme
Jonathan O'Brien
462. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42923/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Education Welfare Service Staff
Jonathan O'Brien
544. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of education welfare officers who retired in each of the past five years. [43298/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Education Welfare Service Staff
Jonathan O'Brien
545. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of education welfare officers recruited in each of the past five years. [43299/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Education Welfare Service Staff
Jonathan O'Brien
546. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of education welfare officers in each county. [43300/12]
Thu, 4 Oct 2012
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Mortgage Arrears Report Implementation
Jonathan O'Brien
26. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Finance the recommendations contained in the Keane Report that have been implemented by his Department and the actions taken on each of these recommendations. [42271/12]
Thu, 4 Oct 2012
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Budget 2013
Jonathan O'Brien
59. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, he has to equality proof each of the various options being considered for Budget 2013; the plans the Government has to prepare and publish a distributional analysis of each of the various options being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42272/12]
Wed, 3 Oct 2012
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Heritage Council Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
9. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to extend the school heritage scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42024/12]
Wed, 3 Oct 2012
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Caiteachas Ranna
Jonathan O'Brien
40. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Jonathan O'Brien den Aire Ealaíon; Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta na ciorruithe atá déanta ag a Roinn ó thús na bliana. [41979/12]
Tue, 2 Oct 2012
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Exports Data
Jonathan O'Brien
72. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the increase in the number of people employed in exporting companies; and his plans to increase the number of existing business that have an export potential. [41620/12]
Tue, 2 Oct 2012
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Trade Missions Numbers
Jonathan O'Brien
80. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the number of trade missions he plans to attend in 2013. [41619/12]
Tue, 2 Oct 2012
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Higher Education Courses Applications
Jonathan O'Brien
151. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of foreign students that Educate Ireland has attracted to third level institutions here in the 2011/12 academic year. [41360/12]
Tue, 2 Oct 2012
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Teaching Contracts
Jonathan O'Brien
152. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of contractual teaching hours fulfilled in third level institutions in the academic year 2011/12. [41361/12]
Tue, 2 Oct 2012
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Consultancy Contracts Issues
Jonathan O'Brien
153. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of consultancy and technical services outsourced to universities here from Government Departments in 2011/12. [41362/12]
Thu, 27 Sep 2012
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Medical Card Drugs
Jonathan O'Brien
17. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to cease the provision of gluten-free products on prescription for medical card patients with coeliac disease or if he will provide equivalent alternative supports or measures for coeliac patients, in view of the excessive cost of gluten-free products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40989/12]
Thu, 27 Sep 2012
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Primary Care Centres Provision
Jonathan O'Brien
23. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health if he will report the progress made, if any, on the proposed development of a primary care centre at Togher, Cork City; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40990/12]
Wed, 26 Sep 2012
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Ombudsman for Children Remit
Jonathan O'Brien
13. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline her views on expanding the role of the Ombudsman for Children as per the recommendations of the Ombudsman contained in her report of March, 2012. [40714/12]
Wed, 26 Sep 2012
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Child Protection Issues
Jonathan O'Brien
39. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will publish the independent external assessment of the two out-of-hours pilot projects providing emergency social care services in counties Donegal and Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40715/12]
Wed, 26 Sep 2012
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Drugs Crime
Jonathan O'Brien
208. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the dial to stop drug dealing campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29753/12]
Tue, 25 Sep 2012
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Redundancy Payments
Jonathan O'Brien
182. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation his plans to review company law in order to oblige insolvent companies which declare themselves unable to meet their financial obligations to their employees to enter liquidation before employees are forced to apply to the redundancy fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40400/12]
Tue, 25 Sep 2012
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Redundancy Payments
Jonathan O'Brien
183. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation his plans to empower the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Labour Relations Commission, in cases when companies declare themselves unable to pay wages and redundancy owed to employees, to compel the directors to attend hearings and the reason they have not met their employees terms and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40401/12]
Thu, 20 Sep 2012
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Defence Forces Medicinal Products
Jonathan O'Brien
26. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Defence the number of legal proceedings that have been initiated against his Department concerning the prescription of Lariam to members or former members of the Defence Forces. [39496/12]