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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (31 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that my Department received an application from the school in question for significant capital funding to construct a replacement PE Hall and classroom accommodation.  As my Department's priority is the provision of essential classroom accommodation to meet demographic need, the element of the school's application relating to classroom accommodation was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (31 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: My Department is currently awaiting the return of the completed tender report and when this is received and considered my Department will revert directly to the school regarding progression of the project to the next stage. Subject to no issues arising with the tender report or the supplementary tender report which will follow, it is anticipated that construction should commence in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (31 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: Primary school liability and personal injury claims are a matter for the board of management of each primary school. The Governance Manual for Primary Schools 2015-2019 requires each board of management of a primary school to put in place comprehensive insurance cover to safeguard the school, the Board and the Trustees. Claims arising under such insurance policies are processed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (31 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: I recognise the need to improve capitation funding for schools having regard to the reductions that were necessary over recent years. Restoring capitation funding as resources permit is one of the actions included in the Action Plan for Education. Budget 2018 marked the second year of major reinvestment in the education sector, as we continue to implement the Action Plan for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (31 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, the project to which he refers was announced as part of my Department's Six Year Capital Programme in 2015. Officials in my Department are working closely with officials from the relevant Local Authority under the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the acquisition of a suitable permanent location for the school in question. A number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (31 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school in question recently wrote to my Department advising that it expects enrolments to increase in the coming academic year 2018/2019. My Department contacted the school and advised the Principal that should enrolment increase to a level that would warrant the appointment of an additional teacher, it is then open to the school to submit an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (31 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating a quantum of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school.  The NCSE allocates SNA support to schools in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Seirbhísí Oideachais trí Ghaeilge (31 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: Mar is eol don Teachta, cheadaigh mo Roinnse deontas suntasach cineachta i Meán Fómhair 2014 don scoil i dtrácht le haghaidh leathnú buan agus oibreacha athchumraíochta a d’fhágfadh go bhféadfaí gach cóiríocht réamhdhéanta a bhaint de shuíomh na scoile. Beidh a fhios agat go bhfuil an plean costais athcheartaithe, a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (31 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that building projects for the schools referred to by the Deputy are included in my Department's 6 Year Capital Programme. The development of the project brief must have regard to the continuance of the existing schools whilst construction is underway. Due to the complexities of the schools existing site, issues to be considered in the development of the project brief...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 285, 286 and 440 together. Circular 0040/2018, which is available on my Department’s 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I recognise the need to improve capitation funding for schools having regard to the reductions that were necessary over recent years. Restoring capitation funding as resources permit is one of the actions included in the Action Plan for Education. Budget 2018 marked the second year of major reinvestment in the education sector, as we continue to implement the Action Plan for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, in order to qualify for funding towards tuition fees, students must be first-time undergraduates, hold inter alia EU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss state for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level course. Where undergraduate students do not qualify for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defibrillators in Schools Provision (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: The position is that under the provisions of the Education Act 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school. The decision to install a defibrillator is made at local school level and is a matter for the Board of Management of each individual school. I understand that a National Steering Group on Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: The allocation referred to by the Deputy is the increase in funding for the Special Needs Assistant (SNA) Scheme in 2018. My Department’s policy is to ensure that every child who is assessed as needing SNA support will receive access to such support. I secured an additional €30 million in Budget 2018 to fund the continued development of the SNA scheme with some 1,010...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: In 2018, in the region of €1.75 billion will be invested in Special Education, nearly one fifth of the overall Education budget, and up 43% since 2011. This funding includes provision for up to 13,400 Special Education Teaching posts in mainstream primary and post primary schools, providing additional teaching support to pupils with special educational needs, and over 1,440 special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: Budget 2018 made provision to support my Department's significant programme of curriculum reform, including the roll out of Junior Cycle Reform with Home Economics, History, Music, Geography and Mathematics commencing in September 2018. €13 million of new and reallocated funding was provided to deliver continued implementation of Junior Cycle reform and delivery of a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Jun 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 included a one point improvement in the staffing schedule in primary schools which brings the position to the most favourable...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Therapy Services (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I recently announced that a demonstration project to provide in-school and pre-school therapy services will be introduced for the 2018/19 school year. The project will be managed and co-ordinated by the National Council for Special Education The model has been developed by the Departments of Education, Children and Youth Affairs, Health, and the Health Service Executive, and is part...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Expenditure (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: The additional funding provided in Budget 2018 is supporting the implementation of the various actions contained in DEIS Plan 2017 and the extension of supports to schools new to the DEIS programme. 902 schools now avail of supports under the DEIS programme and from 1stSeptember 2017, 79 new schools were included in DEIS for the first time and a further 30 schools were upgraded from Band 2...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: Following Budget 2018, the equivalent of 100 additional guidance posts have been allocated to our second-level schools with effect from September 2018. The annual cost of restoring these 100 posts is in the region of €6m. 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...