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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The attached table shows the data available in my Department for the percentage of Academic and Non-Academic staff employed in each of the seven universities and 14 institutes of technology at 31st March 2013 as reported by the institutions to the Higher Education Authority. The institutions are not required to provide a further breakdown of the data by grade or function. There is no generic...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 83 and 96 together. The Deputy will be aware of this Government's ongoing commitment to ensuring that all children with special educational needs, including children with Down syndrome, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs. The policy of my Department is to secure the maximum possible level of inclusion of students with special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The question of enrolment in individual schools is the responsibility of the managerial authority of those schools. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking places. It is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Private Schools (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Department does not fund any private primary schools or maintain a list of such schools.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Issues (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Tourism College Killybegs is a school of the Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) which is an autonomous statutory body. The management of the College is the responsibility of the Governing Body and the President of Letterkenny Institute of Technology. No specific proposals concerning the future of the Killybegs campus of the Institute have been received from Letterkenny Institute...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware of this Government's ongoing commitment to ensuring that all children with special educational needs, including children with Down syndrome, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs. The policy of my Department is to secure the maximum possible level of inclusion of students with special educational needs in mainstream primary and post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department understand from Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) that the student in question does not meet the terms and conditions of the student grant scheme for the special rate of grant. If an individual applicant considers that she/he has been unjustly refused a student grant, she/he may appeal, in the first instance, to SUSI. Where an individual applicant has had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland that further documentation was requested on 26th April , 2013 and is still outstanding. When the requested documentation is returned the student will be notified directly of the outcome. The Deputy will appreciate that in the absence of all of the relevant details that would be contained in an individual's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The school, referred to by the Deputy, has applied to my Department for large scale capital funding for a new school. The current status of all projects on the school building programme, including the school in question, may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie. and this is being updated regularly throughout the year. As the Deputy will be aware, the school is currently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: For the purposes of the Student Grant Scheme, compensation for a personal injury is an "income disregard" and is not included in calculating reckonable income. The list of payments, known for the purposes of the Student Grant Scheme 2012 as "income disregards" does not extend to compensation relating to time spent in industrial schools. The Deputy will appreciate that any decision in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: An official from the Primary Teacher Payroll Section of my Department has been in contact with the person concerned regarding the issues raised by the Deputy and outlined the current position.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Subject to planning permission. the intended temporary location for the proposed new primary school referred to by the Deputy is Garryduff Sports Grounds, Rochestown, Cork.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand from Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) that, as at close of business on 5 May 2013, it has received 69, 612 student grant applications. Of these 67,352 have been processed to completion. At total of 328 applications are currently with SUSI for processing. Some 1,932 students who have been requested to provide additional information have not done so. These students are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the completion contractor, Townlink Construction Limited, commenced on site on the 7th May 2013 on the school building project to which the Deputy referred. Subject to no issues arising, the work is anticipated to be completed by the summer.

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (7 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter, as it gives me an opportunity to outline to the House the progress made in recent years by my Department in reducing the number of prefabricated classrooms in use in both primary and post-primary schools. When in opposition, I raised the fact that approximately 80,000 pupils were in prefabricated classrooms. The overall policy goal of my...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (7 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Deputy for giving me the opportunity to outline to the House the work done to reduce the number of prefabricated classrooms in both primary and post-primary schools. I will continue to use the resources available to me to reduce further the use of prefabricated classrooms in all schools. I am aware of the problems in the Deputy's constituency, particularly Lucan. The matter has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (7 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand from Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) that, as at close of business on 6th May 2013, it has received 69,612 student grant applications nationally for attendance at both further and higher education. Some 37,936 students have been paid their maintenance or have had their entitlement to fee confirmed (where awarded a "fees only" grant). Some 20,027 applications have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (7 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm to the Deputy that the matter to which he refers is currently under consideration and officials from SUSI will be in contact with the student shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (7 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware of this Government's ongoing commitment to ensuring that all children with special educational needs, including children with Down syndrome, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs. The policy of my Department is to secure the maximum possible level of inclusion of students with special educational needs in mainstream primary and post-primary...