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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 103 and 104 together. The current status of all projects on the school building programme, including those for County Kildare, may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie which is updated regularly throughout the year. The Deputy will be aware that the 5 Year Construction Plan, that I announced in March 2012, lists the individual school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that I published new anti-bullying procedures for all primary and post primary schools at the beginning of the 2013/14 school year. The purpose of these procedures is to give direction and guidance to school authorities and school personnel in preventing and tackling school-based bullying behaviour amongst its pupils. The procedures include specific requirements in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 106 to 109, inclusive, together. I wish to firstly explain to the Deputy that more resources than ever before are being provided to ensure that the educational requirements of children with special educational needs, including children with special educational needs in Co. Kildare, can continue to be met at primary and second level, and that as many children...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: SUSI processed over 90,000 grant applications in 2013 compared with 70,000 in 2012. The changes and improvements made in 2013 included additional staff, improved communications and information services, earlier opening dates and more efficient processing of applications. For 2014 SUSI will process in the region of 105,000 applications. SUSI has developed a programme of further changes and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has been working in conjunction with Cork County Council towards securing a permanent site to meet the needs of the school referred to by the Deputy. I can confirm that potential options have been identified and my Department is progressing the current preferred option. However the acquisition of the preferred site option is subject to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 112 and 113 together. The information sought is not readily available and will have to be extracted from my Department's Financial Management System and collated. The details requested will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as this has been done.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Training (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy is contained in the attached table. Staff engage in relevant third level and further education programmes in their own time to broaden and maintain their learning and competencies and to build capability to enable the Department meet current and future challenges. My Department also provides a range of targeted training courses annually in areas including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Training (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The training budget meets the cost of training and development for the Department's staff in administrative, professional, technical and service grades and aims to enhance the skills and knowledge of the staff to enable the Department to meet the current and future challenges and promote the personal development of staff. In 2008 The training budget at my Department was €1m. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department's travel and subsistence allocation for 2014 comprises €1.520 million in respect of Departmental staff and an allocation of €0.720 million for the National Educational Psychological Service, giving a total allocation of €2.240 million. This provision supports the delivery of key functions within my Department such as the provision of schools inspections,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 117 and 119 together. Projected net current expenditure on my Department's Vote of €3,719 million to the end of June 2014 is running €7 million or 0.2% behind the profiled expenditure position of €3,726 million. The full extent of the Department's end-2014 expenditure position will only become apparent in the final quarter of the year,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Programme Expenditure (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: At this stage of the year it is not possible to forecast with any degree of accuracy the likely outturn of the 2014 capital expenditure programme. The target of expending the entire allocation remains.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application for consideration by the Appeals Board for the June meeting. The Appeals Board determined that the appeal did not satisfy all of the published criteria as set out in Circular 0007/2014. The Appeal Board operates independently of the Minister and the Department and its decision is final.Day to day running of a school is a matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The requirement that teachers seeking to register under Regulation Five of the Teaching Council [Registration] Regulations 2009 and teach in the further education sector is designed to achieve consistent standards in the qualifications required to be a registered teacher across the three education sectors – Primary, Post-Primary and Further Education. It followed an extensive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The appeal of the student referred to by the deputy was heard by the independent Appeals Board on the 17th June 2014. The Board upheld the decision of the awarding authority and the appeals officer as the Board felt that the student was given ample opportunity to submit all documentation requested but failed to do so within the given timeframe. The student was advised of his options in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The following table provides a breakdown by category of the reasons the 1,484 students referred to by the Deputy were initially awarded a grant by SUSI and subsequently refused. This data has been provided to my Department by SUSI. Breakdown of Reasons for Refusal of 1484 2013-14 Grant Applications previously Awarded Category of Reasons No. of Students Repeating same year of course 668...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The following table made available to my Department by SUSI, provides details in relation to the 50 students referred to by the Deputy who received a payment from SUSI. SUSI has a flexible repayment policy whereby students are invited to propose a repayment plan in line with their ability to repay. The question of whether or not a student may proceed with their studies while repaying any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department has paid considerable monies to the Trustees of the school in question for the rental of the premises for a number of years to accommodate a primary school and more recently a post primary school. Considerable further refurbishment works including mechanical and electrical works were grant aided by my Department to accommodate the latter school which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: With the assistance of the Attorney General, I have sought further legal advice on the implications of the European Court of Human Rights judgement for outstanding school child abuse cases. The State Claims Agency has also been reviewing its day school abuse cases to identify those that come within the parameters of the judgement. I will be reporting back to Government on this matter and any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing Appeals Mechanism (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: 30 small schools were due to lose a classroom post in September 2014 as a result of the final phase of the Budget 2012 measure. 2 of these schools are closing, 1 is amalgamating and, following the appeals process, the number of schools losing is now reduced to 12 schools. Additionally, there are 48 small schools with a reduction in enrolments which means they are due to lose a teacher in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating a quantum of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support....