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- Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The staffing of a primary school is determined by reference to the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year and by reference to a staffing schedule. This staffing schedule is outlined in primary circular 15/05 which was issued to all primary schools recently. This is in line with guidelines agreed between my Department and the education partners. In the current...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: My Department has no record of an application from the school to which the Deputy refers. However, it is open to the management authority to make an application for inclusion in the school building programme.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: My Department is moving towards a model of devolving the responsibility for building projects to school management authorities where appropriate. The devolving of funding to local level will accommodate school authorities to take responsibility and ownership of their building projects and will assist in moving projects in a specific timeframe through the design process, to tender action and...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The Deputy is aware that my Department has completed its review of the general allocation system of resource teaching support. The new model replaces that which was notified to schools in June 2004, which has been reviewed to take account of the difficulties it may have caused for smaller schools. The introduction of the new system will involve the provision of an estimated additional 340...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The school in question progressed a capital project without the approval or agreement of the Department of Education and Science, for which retrospective funding of â¬127,000 was sought. Since the introduction of the school building programme, under which all projects to be funded from the allocation are listed, it is not possible to consider applications for retrospective funding....
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department has assessed the application from the school to which the Deputy refers in accordance with the revised prioritisation criteria, and its progress will be considered in the context of the school building programme from 2005 onwards.
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The Deputy is aware that my Department has now completed its review of the general allocation system of resource teaching support. The new model replaces that which was notified to schools in June 2004, which has been reviewed to take account of the difficulties it may have caused for smaller schools. The introduction of the new system will involve the provision of an estimated additional 340...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the school in question has accepted the grant for the provision of an extension under the 2005 small schools initiative which I announced recently. The school authority is managing this project on a devolved basis and I understand the project is scheduled to go on-site in late 2005.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The school to which the Deputy refers was extended and refurbished, and handed over to the school authorities in 2002. There is no new application on hand from the school authorities.
- Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department is assessing the rationalisation of national schools in Cahir, including the school to which the Deputy refers. My Department has requested the local inspector to provide long-term projections for both the boys' and girls' schools to establish the extent of accommodation needed to facilitate the amalgamation. In addition, a technical inspection has...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the school in question has accepted the grant for the provision of an extension under the 2005 small schools initiative which I announced recently. The school authority is managing this project on a devolved basis and I understand works commenced on-site last week. My Department's school building section expects to be in a position to pay out the initial...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: On 20 April 2005, I outlined details of 124 capital projects that are being authorised to progress through the architectural planning process, including the project for the school referred to by the Deputy. The projects allowed to progress through the planning process have been assessed as priority projects. They are in areas where demand for school places is increasing or where current...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department has assessed the application for additional accommodation from the school to which the Deputy refers in accordance with the revised prioritisation criteria and its progress is being considered in the context of the school building programme from 2005 onwards.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department has assessed the application for additional accommodation from the school to which the Deputy refers in accordance with the revised prioritisation criteria and its progress is being considered in the context of the school building programme from 2005 onwards.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department has assessed the application for additional accommodation from the school to which the Deputy refers in accordance with the revised prioritisation criteria and its progress is being considered in the context of the school building programme from 2005 onwards.
- Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (25 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 201 and 202 together. The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department for the school year 2004-05. If the Deputy has a query about a particular school for 2003-04, I will be happy to answer it.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (25 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: All applications for temporary accommodation for the next school year have been considered in the school planning section of my Department. The application for a resource room for the school in question was not successful on this occasion. The school authority has been advised accordingly.
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (25 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The report of the action group on access to third level education, which was launched in July 2001, made detailed recommendations concerning the target group of "those most in need" which has been defined in terms of the child dependants of people receiving long-term welfare payments, where the necessary conditions are fulfilled. The action group recommended the introduction of special rates...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (25 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I have included the building project for the school in question in my recently announced list of school projects to be progressed through architectural planning in 2005. The extension refurbishment project at the school includes the provision of a language disorder unit. My Department has been in contact with the school recently to progress the design process and is now awaiting a revised...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (25 May 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I can confirm that the special educational needs organiser, SENO, received an application for special needs assistant, SNA, support for the pupil in question. The SENO's decision was that this pupil's needs could be catered for from within existing provision within the school.