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- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: The decision to approve job-sharing and career-break applications is a matter for the authorities of the employing school. In the case of schools that have over-quota teachers, vacancies do not arise as a result of teachers approved for job-sharing or career break. This position is no different from that pertaining in previous years. In these schools that have over-quota teachers,...
- Written Answers — Commercial Product Testing: Commercial Product Testing (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: As the Deputy will be aware, under Section 15 of the Education Act 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school and is therefore responsible for making decisions as to the types of activities in which the school gets involved. So the decision as to whether to accept sponsorship, partake in promotions or engage with research is one for the Board...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: Details held by this Department of the schools in Co. Clare renting prefabricated units are given in the following tabular statement. As the Deputy will see from the details provided, there are 26 schools renting a total of 70 prefab units. The average annual rental cost per prefab unit in Co. Clare is â¬11,210. As the Deputy will appreciate the cost per unit will vary depending on the...
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: The decision on eligibility for student maintenance grants is a matter for the relevant assessing authority, either the local authority or VEC, as appropriate. These bodies do not refer individual applications to my Department, except in exceptional circumstances. If an individual applicant considers that she/he has been unjustly refused a maintenance grant, or that the rate of...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: My Department holds data on temporary accommodation on a county basis rather than a constituency basis. Details held by this Department of the schools in Dublin City and County renting prefabricated units are given in the following tabular statement. As the Deputy will see from the details provided, there are 103 schools renting a total of 279 prefab units. The average annual rental cost...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 479 and 481 together. As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for allocating resource teachers and special needs assistants to schools to support children with special needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: My Department has approved the Stage 1 submission (i.e. Site Suitability, Site Report and Initial Sketch Scheme) for the school to which the Deputy refers and gave authorisation to progress to the next stage of architectural planning, which is Stage 2A (Developed Sketch Scheme). The progression of all large scale building projects from initial design stage through to tender and...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: My Department holds data on temporary accommodation on a county basis rather than a constituency basis. Details held by this Department of the schools in Cork City and County renting prefabricated units are given in the following tabular statement. As the Deputy will see from the details provided, there are 116 schools renting a total of 282 prefab units. The average annual rental cost...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 483, 485 and 504 together. The school to which the Deputies refer has applied to my Department for an extension project. As the Deputies will be aware, last week, I announced details of 43 major building projects to proceed to tender and construction and 25 high priority projects to commence architectural planning. The project to which the Deputies refer...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: I take it that the Deputy is referring to the proposed Centre of Excellence for Visually Impaired at St. Joseph's School, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. The Deputy may be aware that a decision was taken in 2003 that the Centre as originally proposed should not proceed having regard to the low and declining pupil numbers in the school for the visually impaired and the development costs involved,...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: Details held by this Department of the schools in Co Leitrim renting prefabricated units are given in the following tabular statement. As the Deputy will see from the details provided, there are 3 schools renting a total of 9 prefab units. The average annual rental cost per prefab unit in Co Leitrim is â¬17,967. As the Deputy will appreciate the cost per unit will vary depending on the...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: Details of the schools in Co. Sligo renting temporary accommodation are given in the following tabular statement. The average annual rental cost per unit in 2007 was â¬10,815. From the information provided the Deputy will see that there were a total of 25 prefabricated units rented in 2007 by 11 schools. As the Deputy will appreciate the cost per unit will vary depending on the size, type...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: Details held by this Department of the schools in Co Roscommon renting prefabricated units are given in the following tabular statement. As the Deputy will see from the details provided, there are 13 schools renting a total of 20 prefab units. The average annual rental cost per prefab unit in Co Roscommon is â¬8,276. As the Deputy will appreciate the cost per unit will vary depending on the...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: The proposed building project for the school to which the Deputy refers is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. As the Deputy will be aware, last week, I announced details of 43 major building projects to proceed to tender and construction and 25 high priority projects to commence architectural planning. The project to which the Deputy refers was not included in this announcement....
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: The person in question is in receipt of a pension from my Department under the National School Teachers Spouses' and Children's Pension Scheme, as the spouse of a deceased teacher. Pension is not payable in respect of the person's granddaughter notwithstanding that the person is the child's guardian. Eligibility for children's pension under the scheme of which the deceased was a member is...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: Details of the schools in Waterford renting temporary accommodation are given in the following tabular statement. As the Deputy will see from the details provided, there are 19 schools renting a total of 96 prefab units. The average annual rental cost per prefab unit in Waterford is â¬12,960. As the Deputy will appreciate the cost per unit will vary depending on the size, type and age of...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: As part of the modernisation agenda for teachers under the Social Partnership Agreement Towards 2016 it was agreed to address the issue of redeployment of surplus teachers. Discussions on the arrangements that would apply in the case of second level schools commenced under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council in March 2007. It was initially agreed that the discussions would take...
- Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: Draft legislation to put in place a legal framework which will facilitate the involvement of Vocational Education Committees (VECs) in the provision of primary education is currently in preparation in my Department. No order has been made under Section 10 of the Vocational Education (Amendment) Act 2001. Having considered the matter it has been decided that it is proper that the role and...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: My Department holds data on temporary accommodation on a county basis rather than a constituency basis. Details held by this Department of the schools in Cork City and County renting prefabricated units are given in the following tabular statement. As the Deputy will see from the details provided, there are 116 schools renting a total of 282 prefab units. The average annual rental cost per...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Feb 2009)
Batt O'Keeffe: The information requested by the Deputy follows: