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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: Budget 2012 increased the appointment and retention ratios for small schools (i.e., schools with up to four classroom teachers). Improvements to the staffing of these schools were announced for the 2015/16 school year. These improvements are improved retention thresholds for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th classroom teacher and also the improved appointment and retention thresholds for one-teacher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 74 to 76, inclusive, together. This government is committed to ensuring every child with special educational needs has the opportunity to fulfil their full potential. In 2018, almost €1.8 billion will be invested in Special Education, nearly one fifth of the overall Education budget, and up 43% since 2011. The Department's policy is to provide for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (20 Sep 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: Third Level Charges (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: Based on the number of students that qualified for free fees funding in the academic year 2016/17, and taking into account overall projected increases in student numbers, it is estimated that the net cost to my Department of reducing the Student Contribution by each €100 per student per annum is €6.7 million It should be noted that the figures presented incorporate the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: The cost of reversing the change to the distance criterion from the existing 45kms to 24kms, is estimated to be in the region of €26m. The above costing assumes that a change to the distance criterion would result in a similar percentage of students qualifying for the higher non-adjacent grant support, as existed pre Budget 2011.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: The outturn for Student Grants and Related Costs in 2017 was €375m. Therefore, the estimated cost for each 1% of extra funding would be approximately €3.75m.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: The estimated cost of a new entrant Special Need Assistant in 2019 is €27,200. This is inclusive of employers PRSI.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: The project to provide a new building for the school to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to the local County Council. The project is currently at stage 2 b of the architectural planning process which is the detailed design stage. This stage also involves obtaining the necessary statutory planning permission approvals. The project will proceed to tender and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: Information on the retirement of primary teachers in each of the years 2015-2017 is outlined in Table 1. The information sets out the total number of teachers and from those teachers, the number of principal teachers who retired each year. Table 2 shows the number of teachers and principals who retired on a per county basis. Information distinguishing teaching principals from other category...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the current status of large-scale projects being delivered under the school building programme may be viewed on my Department’s website, and this is updated monthly. A list of large scale projects completed from 2010 to date may also be viewed on the website. In addition, the following major building projects have recently been completed and these will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: My Department's means of analysing demographic trends and data have changed considerably since the report to which the Deputy refers was completed in 2005. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: The Department received a submission from the National Principals' Forum in September 2018. Building on measures in previous budgets to enhance school leadership, Budget 2018 made €0.4 million available to fund almost 4600 additional release days for teaching principals in primary schools. This additional funding will see an increase in the number of release days available to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware my Department is committed to a PE Hall build and modernisation programme, starting in the second half of the Project Ireland 2040 period, that will ensure that students in all post-primary schools have access to state of the art facilities to support PE provision, particularly in the context of the roll-out of P.E. as a leaving certificate subject.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: Student Universal Support Ireland [SUSI], the grant awarding authority, opened for grant applications for the 2018/19 academic year, last April. SUSI has advised that it has no record of an application from the student in question. SUSI is still accepting applications for the current academic year. The student in question should submit an application as soon as possible to SUSI to have his...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: I will say brutally honestly that the solution to this problem will take five years. We said that at the outset.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: We have never had a more innovative Minister than Deputy Eoghan Murphy tackling this issue. I have seen Sinn Féin behave like this before. When I declared we would create 100,000 jobs, Sinn Féin ridiculed us every step of the way and relentlessly opposed every measure we introduced. It pretended to lament unemployment and emigration but offered only hollow solutions. It ignored...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: We now have a programme that will deliver for people and Sinn Féin wants to undermine it.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: The truth is the failure of our housing strategy was caused by the debt-fuelled model that is not sustainable. It has to be rebuilt from scratch as the Minister is doing.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: That is what he is doing and I am four-square behind him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Bruton: The appointment of a Board of Management of a primary school is a matter for the relevant school patron in accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1998. The procedures for the election, nomination and appointment of members of Boards of management of primary schools and the rules under which these Boards operate are set out in my Department’s publication the...