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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: Junior Cycle Implementation of the new framework is proceeding. Implementation commenced in September 2014 with the introduction of English, for first year students. Subjects are being introduced on a phased basis up to 2019 and are being supported by a comprehensive CPD programme for teachers. The new Junior Cycle gives schools greater flexibility to design programmes that are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Records (2 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: There were 129,500 P60s and end of year statements issued to staff paid on payrolls operated by my Department for the 2017 financial year. P60s are issued after the P35 returns are completed, submitted and accepted by Revenue. The P35 returns for the financial year 2017 were submitted to Revenue by the specified deadline date of the 23rd February. P60s were issued in March 2018. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (2 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, I convened the first meeting of the Teacher Supply Steering Group, which is chaired by the Secretary General of my Department, on 26th March 2018. The Group met again last week. The Steering Group is considering the issues that impact on teacher supply, including: data/research requirements; policies and arrangements for schools and teachers that impact on teacher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (2 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: The school referred to by the Deputy was established in September 2014 under patronage divesting. In order to facilitate the opening of the school, its initial establishment, as with most new schools, has been in interim start-up accommodation, pending a permanent school becoming available. In order to cater for the school’s growing enrolment numbers, additional interim...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: Primary Curriculum Financial literacy is mainly explored through mathematics though there are some elements of it in SESE. Examples of other resources available on Scoilnet include: In Mathematics in primary level, students learn to calculate length, area, weight, capacity, time and money in the Measures strand of the curriculum. The Number strand includes computational skills such as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (2 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that my Department has received an application for additional accommodation from the school referred to by the Deputy. My Department has discussed the matter with the school and I understand that the school is providing certain confirmations to my Department. The application will be considered further following receipt of the school’s response.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (2 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware of the Programme for Government commitment to commission an independent review to identify the supports and barriers to lone parents in accessing higher education and to examine measures to increase participation. The report was published in August 2017 together with details of an additional €16.5m for new initiatives to widen access to higher education....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Planning Issues (2 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: In relation to the particular application referred to by the Deputy, I wish to advise that the Department of Education and Skills has not made a submission to An Bord Pleanála in this matter. When requested, the Department provides information to a local authority on the impact a proposed development might have on the need for school places in a particular area. The Department made...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 74 and 76 together. The criteria used for the allocation of teaching posts is published annually on the Department website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The criteria for the appointment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Status (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 75 and 98 together. Schools are not required to make an application for inclusion in the DEIS programme, as all schools are assessed using a new uniform identification model. We have, for the first time, introduced an objective, statistics based model for deciding which schools merit inclusion in the DEIS Programme, so that all stakeholders can have confidence...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Training (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: My Department has not incurred expenditure in facilitating officials to attend conferences in relation to social media training or other related events.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: The criteria used for the allocation of teaching posts is published annually on the Department website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing schedule also includes an appeals mechanism for schools to submit an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: Teacher allocations to all schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. The criteria for the allocation of posts are communicated to school managements annually and are available on the Department website. Each 1 point adjustment to the pupil teacher ratio at post primary level is estimated to cost in the region of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: Budget 2018 marked the second year of major reinvestment in the education sector, as we continue to implement the Action Plan for Education, which has the central aim to make the Irish Education and training service the best in Europe within a decade. Budget 2018 provides for an additional 1280 teaching posts in the 2018/19 school year. This includes a one point improvement in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 81, 85 and 87 together. The estimated cost of restoring capitation funding is provided in the following tables. Estimated cost of restoring Capitation Funding to pre-2011 levels Schools Primary Schools €17.6m Post-Primary Schools €18.0m Estimated full year cost of % Increases in Capitation Funding Schools Primary Schools – 10%...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: Circular 12/2016, which is available on the Department website, outlines the number of days that teaching principals may take as release time in a school year in order to assist them fulfilling their principal duties. Under these arrangements my Department pays for a substitute teacher to be employed by a school to facilitate administrative functions to be undertaken by the teaching...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides an educational psychological service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. The Programme for a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (3 May 2018)

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 new Special Education Teaching allocation provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: Measures announced by my Department as part of Budgets 2016, 2017 and 2018 mean that 500 of the 600 guidance posts that were withdrawn in Budget 2012, will be restored to schools from September 2018. These 500 posts are allocated separately and transparently on each school's staffing schedule. These posts have been ring-fenced so they can only be used for guidance activities and to meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (3 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: As a consequence of the economic crisis, there was a need to enact a number of measures to reduce public expenditure so as to stabilise the country's public finances. The Government approved a number of measures relating to public service allowances following a public service-wide review of allowances and premium payments conducted by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. As a...