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Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Education and Skills

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in cases of clear inability to pay, payment of the 3rd level registration fee can be postponed pending receipt of the grant which does not come for some months after the registration payment deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Education and Skills

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify when the special schools (details supplied) in County Dublin will go to construction in view of the fact that the principals were under the impression that they would go to construction at the end of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

Parliamentary question addressed to the Minister for Health

To ask the Minister for Health if he has received an interim report from the group reviewing the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant as payments under both of these heads terminate in June; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Clear out of bank boards is almost complete

Fine Gael Kerry Senator and Seanad Chief Whip, Paul Coghlan, has said that significant progress has been made on introducing fresh blood onto the boards of our State-supported banks.