John Paul Phelan, TD

Garda recruitment programme; the extent to which the numbers of the force have fluctuated

procedures put in place in respect of the imposition of penalty points and any subsequent deletion are sufficient

prison places remain available for juvenile offenders

educational/rehabilitative training remains available to all prisoners in the various prisons

quality and standard accommodation available to refugee/asylum seekers

satisfied regarding the manner in which complaints within An Garda Síochana continue to be dealt with

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site have been identified for the Educate Together School, Stepaside, County Dublin; when construction will begin?

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason primary teachers who qualified in 2012 and entered the pay scale in that year are on a signicantly higher salary than primary teachers who qualified in 2012 but had been undertaking substitution work in 2011 and therefore entered the pay scale in 2011?

To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of the negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership; his views regarding concerns expressed about the possible undue influence which could be exercised by multinationals; if he will support the current proposals?

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection given recent statistics on the large number of young people unemployed, her plans to allow young people who are ineligible for jobseeker's allowance by virtue of their parents' income participate in the JobBridge scheme from age 22 years rather than 24 years by which time they may be considered long term unemployed?