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- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The project referred to by the Deputy is listed among the 122 large scale projects on the current school building programme announced in January for moving to tender and construction over a 12 to 15-month period. The Department's building unit is currently awaiting revised plans from the school and its design team on this project. When these plans are received, the project can be progressed...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The project referred to by the Deputy is listed among the 122 large scale projects on the current school building programme announced in January for moving to tender and construction over a 12 to 15-month period. The Department's building unit is currently reviewing plans received from the school and its design team. When the review is completed, it is hoped that the project can be progressed...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The project referred to by the Deputy is listed among the 122 large scale projects on the current school building programme announced in January for moving to tender and construction over a 12 to 15-month period. The Department's building unit is currently reviewing plans received from the school and its design team. When the review is completed it is hoped that the project can be progressed...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The project referred to by the Deputy is listed among the 122 large scale projects on the current school building programme announced in January for moving to tender and construction over a 12 to 15-month period. The Department's building unit is currently reviewing plans received from the school and its design team. When the review is completed, it is hoped that the project can be progressed...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The advertisement seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified consultants to form the design team for the school in question was placed on the public procurement portal, www.etenders.gov.ie, on 4 May 2005. This is a two-stage selection process in which the board of management are the client and the closing date for receipt of expressions by the board was the 25 May 2005. When a...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The building project for the school in question was included in the recently announced list of school projects to be progressed through architectural planning in 2005. The building project is at early architectural planning stage 1, site suitability, briefing and site report. The stage submission is currently with the Department and will be assessed by the Department's staff in due course....
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The building project for the school in question is included in the recently announced list of school projects to be progressed through architectural planning in 2005. The building project is at an early stage of architectural planning stage 1-2, developed sketches received. The stage submission is currently with the Department and will be assessed by the Department's staff in due course. When...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The building project for the school in question is included in the recently announced list of school projects to be progressed through architectural planning in 2005. The building project is at an early stage of architectural planning stage 3, detail plans-costs received. The stage submission is currently with the Department and will be assessed by the Department's staff in due course. When...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 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 building project is at early architectural planning stage 2, outline sketch scheme. My Department's officials recently wrote to the school authorities requesting a revised stage two submission and a response is awaited....
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 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 refurbishment project at the school is at an early stage of architectural planning. A condition report has been received and will be assessed by the Department's staff in due course. When this analysis is complete the...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 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 building project is at an early stage of architectural planning, stage 3, detail plans-costs received. The stage submission is with the Department and will be assessed by the Department's staff in due course. When this...
- Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The allocation for the 2004 summer works scheme was â¬31 million. The allocation for 2005 is â¬70.5 million. This includes an extra allocation of â¬8.5 million which I recently announced to enable projects in lower priority categories to be carried out. The scheme covers necessary small scale works in schools, such as gas works, electrical works, mechanical works, projects to facilitate...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: A new general allocation scheme has been announced under which schools will be provided with resource teaching hours, based on their enrolment figures, to cater for children with high incidence special needs such as dyslexia and those with learning support needs. The local special educational needs organiser has determined that the special educational needs of the pupil in question fall...
- Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The vocational training opportunities scheme is managed by the vocational education committees. Teachers who deliver the programme are employees of the relevant vocational education committees. Accordingly, questions relating to the pay of an individual teacher in the scheme should be addressed to the employing vocational education committee.
- Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The legislation which prohibits dual local authority and parliamentary membership is the Local Government Act 2001, as amended by the Local Government (No. 2) Act 2003. This legislation is the responsibility of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Under the 2001 Act, a local authority, for these purposes, is defined as meaning a county council, city council or town...
- Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: School facilities should be available to the community outside of school hours â whether for child care, adult education courses or as somewhere for local community groups to meet â provided this is feasible. My Department issued a circular to the trustees, boards of management and principals of primary and voluntary secondary schools in March encouraging them to make their facilities...
- Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: Third level institutions are autonomous bodies and can determine the level of tuition fees to be charged for postgraduate courses. My Department does not have a role in determining the level of these fees. It should be remembered that students on maintenance grants are eligible to carry their grants through to postgraduate level.
- Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: Significant improvements have been made in the pupil-teacher ratio and in average class size in recent years. The average class size at primary level is now 23:9, down from 26:6 in 1996-97. The pupil-teacher ratio, which includes all the teachers including resource teachers, has fallen from 22.2:1 in the 1996-97 school year to 17.44:1 in 2003-04. Over 4,000 additional teachers have been...
- Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: In recent years, many improvements have been made to enable principal teachers in primary schools to perform their administrative duties. Until the 1999-2000 school year, principals were released from teaching duties to become administrative principals where the school had a staffing of eight or more mainstream class teachers. From the commencement of the 2000-01 school year, administrative...
- Written Answers — School Completion Programme: School Completion Programme (29 Jun 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The new action plan for educational inclusion, Delivering Equality Of Opportunity In Schools, which I launched recently provides for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and a new integrated school support programme which will bring together and build upon several existing interventions for schools with a concentrated level of disadvantage. The new action plan will be...