Results 201-220 of 20,682 for speaker:Mary Hanafin
- Special Educational Needs: Motion. (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: Was that the question? Nothing in the Act will restrict the right of recourse to the courts, rather it will simplify the process of enforcing the right to an appropriate education through the appeals board and the introduction of a mediation process prior to full-scale litigation if the parents remain dissatisfied with the appeal board's findings. The rights of the parents are protected the...
- Special Educational Needs: Motion. (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: Six years.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion. (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: No, 1998.
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: My Department has sanctioned a special needs assistant to cater for the care needs of the pupil in question. The school authorities were informed of this decision recently.
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: The school currently has the services of one full-time resource teacher and two full-time learning support teachers. Under my Department's weighted system of allocation, the appropriate level of special needs teaching support is determined by a schools' enrolment figures and based on the following criteria. In the most disadvantaged schools, as per the urban dimension of Giving Children an...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: Details of a streamlined application process for schools requiring temporary school accommodation for September 2005 were published recently. The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 5 November 2004. The streamlining of the application process for temporary accommodation will ensure that schools which are being allocated funding for accommodation for the start of the school...
- Written Answers — Post-Leaving Certificate Courses: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: Vocational education committees and individual schools and colleges outside the VEC system have been given an allocation of post-leaving certificate places for 2004-05 equivalent to their 2003-04 allocation, except where the application by an individual school or college was for a lesser number. Nationally, a total of 28,588 places have been approved for post-leaving certificate courses for...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: Under current arrangements, my Department makes a specific ex-quota allocation of teaching posts in respect of guidance to schools in the second level system. In the case of schools in the free education scheme, the level of allocation ranges from eight hours per week in the case of schools with enrolments below 200 pupils to 44 hours per week, that is two whole-time posts, in the case of...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: My Department's expenditure on grants towards the cost of specialised equipment and materials for special needs pupils, including information technology equipment, is as follows. The total expenditure for 2003 for the primary and post-primary sectors was â¬3,562,819. The total expenditure for 2004 to date for both sectors is â¬889,980. The annual grant for equipment and task materials to...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: The property management section of the Office of Public Works, which acts on behalf of my Department in site acquisitions generally, is in the process of acquiring a site for the provision of a school to serve the area in question. Due to the commercial sensitivities of site acquisitions, it is not proposed at this stage to provide details of the site being acquired. However, this information...
- Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department is examining all building projects in line with the project prioritisation criteria that were recently revised in consultation with the education partners. The application for an extension, including a physical education hall, will be included in the review. I expect to provide an update on the progress of individual projects later this year. The...
- Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: For the purposes of post-primary education provision, the country is divided into catchment areas, each of which has its own post-primary education centre. The catchment boundaries were determined following consultation with local educational interests and the intention was that certain primary schools would feed exclusively into each centre. My Department provides accommodation to meet the...
- Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: For the purposes of post-primary education provision, the country is divided into catchment areas, each of which has its own post-primary education centre. The catchment boundaries were determined following consultation with local educational interests and the intention was that certain primary schools would feed exclusively into each centre. My Department provides accommodation to meet...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: The pupils to whom the Deputy refers are eligible for catchment boundary transport only to the post-primary centre in question. My Department has no plans to review the catchment boundary lines at this time.
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: The pupils to whom the Deputy refers are eligible for catchment boundary transport only to Clonmel post-primary centre. My Department has been advised by Bus Ãireann that the local transport contractor, who resided in the area and operated the service to Clonmel, collected the children on a personal basis locally on the light running of the service to the catchment boundary line. This was an...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: The pupils to whom the Deputy refers are eligible for catchment boundary transport only to Carlow town post-primary centre, as they are not attending the post-primary centre of the catchment area in which they live. Transport may be allowed to catchment boundary pupils, subject to there being room available on a service after all fully eligible children have been accommodated and provided...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department is examining all building projects in line with the project prioritisation criteria that were recently revised in consultation with the education partners. The proposed project for the school referred to by the Deputy is included in this review. I expect to be in a position to provide an update on the progress of individual projects later this year.
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: The appeal submitted by the families referred to in the details supplied will be forwarded to the independent school transport appeals board as soon as my Department has completed its examination into the background to the case.
- Written Answers — Research Funding: Research Funding (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: My colleague, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, has separately provided the Deputy with detail of the overall State expenditure on research and development and its distribution across the economic sectors. The programme for research in third level institutions, PRTLI, is the main vehicle for research in my Department. There have been three cycles of expenditure. The main...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Hanafin: Under action 43 of the national drugs strategy, guidelines for developing a substance abuse policy were drawn up by my Department in consultation with the Department of Health and Children and the health boards. These guidelines were issued to all schools in October 2002 to assist them in the development of appropriate substance abuse policies. The guidelines do not make reference to asthma...