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1. This Week in the Oireachtas (30 June 2014 -04 July 2014) 2 Oireachtas Monitor Published: 30 June 2014 Contents 1. This Week in the Houses of the Oireachtas 30 June 2014 – 04 July 2014 2. Oireachtas Questions and Debate 23-27 June 2014 Asylum/Immigration Education: including special needs, ECCE, minorities, disadvantage, literacy and numeracy, school staffing, school buildings, school patronage, curriculum Child Services/ Children in Care: including foster care and social work services, HSE staffing, youth services Child Abuse/Child Protection: including vetting, child abduction Family: including adoption Health and Wellbeing: including disability, mental health, substance misuse, primary care, health services, hospital services, obesity, sports facilities Child Benefit/Social Welfare/Poverty Justice Issues/Human Rights/Equality Other 1. This week in the Oireachtas (30 June 2014 -04 July 2014) http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=26475&&CatID=60 2. Oireachtas Questions and Debate (23-27 June 2014) Asylum/Immigration Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Jun 2014) Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the system of direct provision; the number of persons who are accommodated in direct provision centres across the State; if she will provide figures in terms of the number of children, those aged under 18 years, who are subject to the direct provision system; if she will provide figures in terms of the number of young persons who were born here who are currently accommodated in the direct provision system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06- 24a.1096 Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (24 Jun 2014) Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in the direct provision system; the total cost to the Exchequer of the current system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-24a.68 Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (24 Jun 2014) Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons availing of the direct provision facilities; the numbers who have entered the system in each of the past eight years; the numbers and locations of the centres; if records are kept of the number of persons originally in the direct provision system who have attained citizenship; her plans for the direct provision system; and if she will make a statement on the matter http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-24a.83 Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (24 Jun 2014) Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers currently in receipt of direct provision in the State; her views regarding direct provision; the average processing time for asylum seekers in receipt of direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-24a.1047 Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Jun 2014) Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin North Central, Labour) To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of residents housed in each direct provision centre; if the figure could be broken down by gender; if the number of minors in each centre could be identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06- 24a.1129 Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (24 Jun 2014) Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent) To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 546 of 17 June 2014, her proposals for dealing with those in the direct provision system in view of the fact that the single procedure would not benefit these people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-24a.1147 Education: including special needs, ECCE, minorities, disadvantage, literacy and numeracy, school buildings, school patronage Seanad: Adjournment Matters: School Completion Programme (24 Jun 2014) http://www.kildarestreet.com/sendebates/?id=2014-06-24a.254 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (24 Jun 2014) Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Independent) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of early child care providers that have closed due to financial constraints in each of the past five years and to date in 2014; the number of child care places this represents; and if he will provide a tabular breakdown of these details by area and date of closure. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-24a.1789 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (24 Jun 2014) Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in relation to policy underlining his Department's remit to develop policy in relation to mainstream pre-school and after-school care for children, any research or studies have been conducted to establish the effects of transferring children with special needs from ABA environments to mainstream non-ABA environments; if any policy guidelines have been developed to cover such transfers or if not, if guidelines are currently being developed; if he is aware of any desire among parents generally to retain State support for continuing ABA where it is shown to be beneficial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06- 24a.1774 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (24 Jun 2014) Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a list of child care providers who are in receipt of a grant under the early childhood care and education scheme from his Department; the amount paid to each of them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-24a.1796 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (26 Jun 2014) Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will introduce an appeals process to be adjudicated upon on an individual basis for primary schools adversely affected by the 2010 changes to school bus catchment areas; if this process will give particular consideration to isolated rural schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-26a.222 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (24 Jun 2014) Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the tendering system introduced by Bus Éireann for its school routes works; if there has been any consultation with smaller bus operators regarding this system; the measures in place to ensure all bus routes are divided equally among bus operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-24a.317 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration (26 Jun 2014) Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills where special needs assistants are being made redundant in a school, whether the years of service in situations where they worked as SNAs in two separate schools that were ultimately amalgamated will include the years when they worked in the previous schools or whether these years are lost; and whether they will be entitled to having years of service counted only in respect of the period after the amalgamation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-26a.219 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Jun 2014) Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Special Education has included any recommendations stating that girls in an all-girls primary school should get less learning support than girls in a mixed primary school as part of its recent review; if not, the reason he allocates less learning support to an all-girls primary school compared to a mixed school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-25a.194 Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 Jun 2014) http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2014-06-24a.388 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 Jun 2014) Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the policy underlining his Department's remit to provide specialist preschool and after- school care for children if any research or studies have been conducted to establish the value of applied behavioural analysis, ABA, to certain children with special needs; if there are any findings on the effects of transferring children from ABA environments to mainstream non-ABA environments; if any policy guidelines have been developed to cover such transfers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-06-24a.314 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (24 Jun 2014) Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, due to Circular 22/2012, there is an obligation on special needs assistants to take a career break if undertaking a distance or online course in education or other subject areas, including a postgraduate diploma in education, formerly the HDip; and if so, the reasons for same stipulation in view of the hardship that it places on SNAs attempting to upskill.
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