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1. This Week in the Oireachtas (07 May - 10 May 2013) 2 Oireachtas Monitor Published: 07 May 2013 Contents 1. This Week in the Houses of the Oireachtas 07 May - 10 May 2013 http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=23399&&CatID=60 2. Oireachtas Questions and Debate 29 April 03 May 2013 Education: including special needs, 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 Asylum/Immigration Family: including adoption Child Abuse/Child Protection: including vetting, child abduction Health and Wellbeing: including disability, mental health, substance misuse, primary care, health services, hospital services, obesity Child Benefit/Social Welfare/Poverty/Housing Justice Issues/ Human Rights/Equality 1. This week in the Oireachtas (07 May - 10 May 2013) http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=23399&&CatID=60 2. Oireachtas Questions and Debate (29 April -03 May 2013) Education: including special needs, ECCE and childminding, minorities, disadvantage, literacy and and numeracy, school staffing, school buildings, school patronage, curriculum Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services Provision (30 Apr 2013) Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael) To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures that will be put in place to assist lone parents that do not get one of the 6,000 childcare places made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.705 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (2 May 2013) Pádraig MacLochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any secondary school here, funded by the Exchequer can refuse the placing of an information poster to support LGBT students from an organisation also funded by the Exchequer, in the notice board space of that school; and if he will advise of his Department's policy on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-05-02a.236 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (30 Apr 2013) John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of the total amount of funding paid directly to vocational education committees to cover the cost of administering local youth work funding including the total pay of VEC youth officers and the total non-pay element of direct assistance to VECs. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.1210 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (1 May 2013) James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his pland to review the secondary school bus routes in view of new regulations regarding school boundaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-05-01a.308 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (2 May 2013) Patrick Nulty (Dublin West, Labour) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any training or education opportunities available for young persons with hearing difficulties in the Dublin area; if he will outline details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-05-02a.227 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (1 May 2013) Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael) 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide support services to children with Down Syndrome. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-05-01a.284 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (30 Apr 2013) Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour) 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the outcome of the recently completed surveys of primary school patronage, in which parents in 20 of the locations surveyed expressed a preference for the establishment of a primary school under the patronage ofEducate Together, he intends to carry out a similar survey for post primary schools, in order that the growing demand for post primary schools under the patronage of Educate Together can be assessed and provided for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.365 Child Services/ Children in Care: including foster care and social work services, HSE staffing, youth services Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Work Projects Funding (2 May 2013) Sandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein) 217. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason she at a recent Irish Presidency Conference where the theme was Quality Youth Work and Social Inclusion gave a commitment to youth work at the European level, while at the same time she cut funding to Quality Youth Work projects at the national level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-05-02a.619 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (30 Apr 2013) Micheál Martin (Leader of the Opposition; Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) 505. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocations to all youth projects in Dublin funded by her Department and administered by the City of Dublin Youth Services Board for the current year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.1200 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Cafés (30 Apr 2013) Micheál Martin (Leader of the Opposition; Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of youth cafes that will be provided as a result of the one million euro capital funding being made available by her Department for this purpose; the location of these cafes; the criteria that will be used in selecting these locations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04- 30a.1177 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Voluntary Youth Work (30 Apr 2013) Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour) 508. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to any concerns that voluntary organisations within the youth sector which her Department oversees may no longer be considered as charitable bodies for tax purposes in view of the fact that they are now regulated and funded by her Department instead of the Department of Education and Skills; if she has discussed these concerns with the bodies involved; if she had discussed these concerns with the Department of Justice and Equality; the steps she proposes to take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.1206 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (30 Apr 2013) Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for not recognising Down Syndrome pupils for resource hours; and if he will end this discrimination such as in the Special Education Circular 02/05. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.368 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (30 Apr 2013) Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 479 of 16 April 2013, if he has a timeline for when he will receive the report from the National Council for Special Education; if its recommendations will be implemented by the start of the academic year 2013/14; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.396 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (30 Apr 2013) Micheál Martin (Leader of the Opposition; Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants in Dublin schools for the academic years 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.414 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Issues (30 Apr 2013) Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Down syndrome children in mainstream primary education; the classification of these children in the intellectual disability spectrum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.439 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Issues (30 Apr 2013) Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has done a study that tracks a student who needs the assistance of a SENO or resource teaching hours from primary school through to the completion of the leaving certificate and the number of those that go on to third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-04-30a.459 Asylum/Immigration Tuesday, 30 April 2013 Written answers: Asylum Seeker Accommodation Deputy Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) asked the Minister, for Justice, Equality and Defence several questions on the Direct provision system. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013- 04-30a.969 Family: Including adoption Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility (2 May 2013) Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) 171.
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