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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Department officials have checked records relating to board appointments of former TD’s since the Public Appointments Service (PAS) process for board appointments came on stream in 2011. I am advised that one former TD, Mr Brian Fleming was appointed to the Board of the State Examinations Commission through the PAS process. Mr Fleming’s term of office as a Commissioner was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Redundancy Payments (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The person in question was paid a redundancy lump sum based on her regular weekly earnings for the 12 months prior to the date of redundancy in respect of her employment for the period 4th October 2004 to 31st August 2015 in line with the provisions of the Redundancy Acts 1967 - 2016. Prior to the post being made redundant the number of hours allocated to the post had decreased from 32 to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department has no record of an Emergency Works Grant application from the school to which the Deputy refers.  The school should contact the Devolved Projects Section of my Department's Planning and Building Unit in Tullamore to discuss this, or alternatively, it may submit a copy of its application to that Section for consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: In early May, the Christian Brothers congregation wrote to me on the wider issue of the transfer of ownership of its playing fields to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, ERST. The correspondence also noted the proposal to dispose of part of the lands at the school to which the Deputy refers, a post-primary school under the patronage of ERST, and it states that contracts have already been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commemorative Events (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department is keen to support Famine commemoration where it is feasible and practicable to do so. My officials will seek further clarification regarding the project in question. This will include seeking copies of the literature being proposed for issue to schools, clarification regarding how the project would work during the period when schools are closed (i.e. holiday times),...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7th March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of the new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation process replaces the generalised allocation process at primary and post primary school level for learning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that my Department has approved a grant for the school to which he refers to carry out access for all works.  The school has been notified accordingly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) programme is one of a number of options made available by my Department for Senior Cycle students which schools can choose from, based on the education needs and interests of their student.   It is the responsibility and choice of each individual school to decide to put in place the LCA programme, based on the educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) programme is one of a number of options made available by my Department for Senior Cycle students which schools can choose from, based on the education needs and interests of their student.   It is the responsibility and choice of each individual school to decide to put in place the LCA programme, based on the educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I assume that the Deputy is referring to the transition of English-medium schools to Irish-medium schools in the context of the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme.  Under the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme, which is a key component of my Department’s Policy on Gaeltacht Education 2017-2022, schools located in Gaeltacht language-planning areas can apply to seek recognition as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Expulsions (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The position is my Department does not hold statistics for individual counties for section 29 appeals, this protects the privacy of individuals taking appeals on behalf of their children.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Caranua is an independent statutory body established under the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to oversee the use of cash contributions of up to €110 million, pledged by religious congregations, to support the needs of survivors of institutional child abuse. The legislation provides that supports may be available in the areas of health and personal social services,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Career Breaks (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: In the 2016/17 school year there are one thousand five hundred and seventy teachers in primary schools availing of the career break scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: SUSI operates a comprehensive set of processes and controls to manage the assessment process and to minimise the risk of incorrectly awarding grants. However, the nature of the assessment process undertaken by SUSI means that there is a risk that some students may be awarded maintenance grants and/or fee grants for which they are not eligible. Where overpayments do occur, SUSI treats the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The core function of the redeployment arrangements at Primary level is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus full-time permanent/CID holding teachers to schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent/CID holding teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers.  Thereafter, vacancies...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Contracts (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7th March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of the new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation model replaces the generalised allocation process at primary and post primary school level for learning support...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Where a requirement for additional schools has been identified, details including proposed timelines related to the opening of the schools, are made known by a Ministerial announcement following which a patronage assessment process is carried out to determine who will operate such schools. As the Deputy may be aware, the Irish Greyhound Board has accepted an offer of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Speech and Language Therapy Services are under the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Health and the service is provided by the Health Service Executive (HSE).  The Programme for a Partnership Government includes a commitment to introduce a new in-school Speech and Language Therapy service, creating stronger linkages between parents, teachers and Speech and Language...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware the project in respect of the education campus in Buncrana is included on my Department's capital programme. At the recent meeting with the Council the preferred site option was confirmed and the next steps to progress an acquisition were identified and initiated.  In that context, officials from the Council, on behalf of my Department, have engaged...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: On 1 July 2013 the 33 Vocational Education Committees (VECs) were dissolved and replaced with 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs). My Department is responsible for the disbursement of pay and non-pay grants to each of the 16 ETBs in respect of a range of school and non-school based services.   Details of funding provided by my Department to the ETB Sector for the period 2009 to 2017...