Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Carol Nolan

151. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of extending the July provision to all children with special educational needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18526/17]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Carol Nolan

152. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of extending the July provision to all children with a low incidence disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18527/17]

Home Tuition Scheme

Carol Nolan

153. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a cap in place for the number of hours that can be accessed by a child under the home tuition scheme; the savings from such a cap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18528/17]

Special Educational Needs Data

Carol Nolan

154. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation for special educational equipment such as assistive technology over each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18529/17]

Special Educational Needs Data

Carol Nolan

155. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the level of grant funding allocated to a group over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18530/17]

Education Grants

Carol Nolan

156. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the rate of ancillary grant over each of the past ten years; if the 5% reduction in budget 2011 has been restored to schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18531/17]

Teacher Recruitment

Carol Nolan

157. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a cap in place for language support teachers; the way in which the current number differs from 2008 to 2009 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18533/17]

Early Start Programme

Carol Nolan

158. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation and participation rates for the early start programme over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18534/17]

Broadband Service Provision

Carol Nolan

159. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the costs of providing 100Mbps broadband to all primary and post-primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18535/17]

Languages Programme

Carol Nolan

160. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the costs of implementing the initial teacher elements of the 20-year Irish strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18536/17]

School Costs

Carol Nolan

161. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount allocated to schools in ICT grants over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18537/17]

Education Schemes

Carol Nolan

162. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation and participation rates in post-leaving certificate, PLC, courses over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18538/17]

Education Schemes

Carol Nolan

163. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation and participation rates in VTOS courses over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18539/17]

Education Schemes

Carol Nolan

164. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation and participation rates in Youthreach courses for each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18540/17]

Education Funding

Carol Nolan

165. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation and the number of guidance posts for further and higher education over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18541/17]

Third Level Funding

Carol Nolan

166. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation to third level research and development over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18542/17]

Education Funding

Carol Nolan

167. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation to the strategic innovation fund over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18543/17]

Student Grant Scheme

Carol Nolan

168. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the savings that could be achieved if a capital means test was introduced for the student grant with a cut-off point for assets over €500,000, €750,000 and €1,000,000, excluding the family home, working farmland and business assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18544/17]

Departmental Expenditure

Carol Nolan

169. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 16 September 2016, if he will provide a breakdown of the spend in the same areas for 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18545/17]

School Transport

Carol Nolan

175. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the ongoing industrial action in Bus Éireann that will affect school transport; his plans to address this concern in view of upcoming exams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18688/17]

State Examinations

Carol Nolan

176. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing the junior certificate oral exam in every school; the cost of providing sufficient state examiners to assess the orals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18689/17]

School Management

Carol Nolan

177. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is legislation in place preventing teachers from changing a person's clothes in the event of an accident or injury; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18691/17]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Carol Nolan

178. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which schools will be able to secure additional resources from the NCSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18692/17]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Carol Nolan

179. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the 519 schools that have appealed their allocations under the new resource allocation model by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18693/17]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Carol Nolan

180. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend the early start programme; the locations of each of the early start programmes that are in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18694/17]

School Curriculum

Carol Nolan

181. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing a one-hour workshop in all primary and post-primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18695/17]

Education and Training Boards Administration

Carol Nolan

182. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a case of alleged misappropriation of funds by a national provider contracted to provide training courses through service level agreements with local education and training boards; the scale of the alleged misappropriation; the ETBs that have been affected; the steps he will take to ensure that service level agreements are upheld; the mechanisms of oversight that are in place to ensure service level agreements are delivered; the steps he will take to recoup the moneys involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18696/17]

School Transport

Carol Nolan

183. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a bus route (details supplied) was downgraded from a 58 seater to a 40 seater; the number of children previously travelling on the route that no longer have a seat; the length of time each pupil was travelling on the route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18697/17]

School Transport Eligibility

Carol Nolan

184. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his office will contact a person (details supplied) regarding school transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18680/17]

National Training Fund

Carol Nolan

185. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which proposals to increase the National Training Fund levy, such as those in his Department's consultation paper on the employer's contribution to further and higher education, will be accommodated within the expenditure ceiling of his department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18679/17]

DEIS Scheme

Carol Nolan

186. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to remove schools from DEIS that no longer meet the criteria; the number of schools that would be affected; if the criteria would be based on educational performance or on socioeconomic indicators; the details of the criteria that would be applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18678/17]

Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Payments

Carol Nolan

210. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the back to school clothing and footwear allowance by €50 per child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18513/17]

Rural Social Scheme

Carol Nolan

220. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason supervisors under the rural social scheme have been informed of a change in their terms and conditions; if his Department intends that this scheme will focus on job activation; if this is the reason for the increase in places under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18677/17]

Rural Social Scheme

Carol Nolan

221. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection if a representative from his Department and the local development network will be in attendance at the Workplace Relations Commission hearing on 24 April 2017 regarding the rural social scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18681/17]

Speech and Language Therapy Provision

Carol Nolan

283. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health to set down the estimated cost of recruiting 100 additional speech and language therapy posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18518/17]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility

Carol Nolan

301. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for complying with the programme for Government commitment to end the discrimination against persons in the fair deal nursing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18684/17]

Compensation Schemes

Carol Nolan

308. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to compensate the 370 grain farmers affected by flooding; the timeframe to provide such compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18687/17]

Agri-Environment Options Scheme Data

Carol Nolan

326. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons awaiting agri-environment options scheme payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18682/17]

GLAS Data

Carol Nolan

327. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons awaiting GLAS payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18683/17]

Suckler Welfare Scheme

Carol Nolan

328. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if suckler farming will be strongly supported and prioritised for increased targeted direct supports of up to €200 per cow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18685/17]

Live Exports

Carol Nolan

329. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date in increasing live exports; his plans to protect live exports in relation to Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18686/17]

DEIS Data

Carol Nolan

364. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual budgetary allocation of her Department to the various elements of the DEIS programme each year since 2006 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18517/17]

Home School Community Liaison Scheme

Carol Nolan

365. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of home school community liaison staff over each of the past ten years; the budgetary allocation to the scheme over each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18532/17]

Direct Provision Data

Carol Nolan

127. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are currently in direct provision; the number of persons granted asylum over each of the past ten years; the waiting times to be granted asylum; the number of persons who have been refused asylum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17906/17]

School Textbooks Rental Scheme

Carol Nolan

197. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the capital and current allocation over each of the past ten years for school book rental; the number of schools that received a capital allocation to purchase books to establish a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17765/17]

Third Level Charges

Carol Nolan

198. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the student contribution charge by €250, €500, €1,000, €2,000 and €3,000, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17767/17]

Special Educational Needs Data

Carol Nolan

199. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants required to meet projected demographic increases over the next five years; the estimated cost of providing an additional 100 SNAs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17770/17]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Carol Nolan

200. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of establishing the inclusion support service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17771/17]

National Educational Psychological Service Expenditure

Carol Nolan

201. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing an additional 100 NEPS psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17772/17]

Teacher Training Provision

Carol Nolan

202. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation to various bodies within his Department to provide for the education and training of teachers in special education; the number of graduates of initial teacher training whereby special education formed a compulsory part of the course; the cost of providing the equivalent of a module at initial teacher training level in special education to 100 teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17773/17]