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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The overall cost arising from the public consultation process is €760,142.20. This is broken down as follows: Carr Communications — advice, assistance with publicity and practical support at events — €114,574.31; printing, launch and distribution of discussion document Your Education System — €109,051.53; all costs associated with 17 public meetings, this includes cost publicising...

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department allocates funding on an overall basis to youth work organisations. It is a matter then for each national organisation to allocate funding on a regional basis as it considers appropriate. As a member organisation of the National Youth Federation the organisation in question receives funding from the national office. In addition, it receives grant-in-aid from the youth affairs...

Written Answers — School Discipline: School Discipline (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The task force on student behaviour will present a final report and recommendations later this year. Since the task force was established early this year, it has come to grips with the breadth and complexity of this vitally important area. In tackling its job, it has consulted widely and built upon submissions, research and its own analysis to define sharply the areas where in, its final...

Written Answers — Computerisation Programme: Computerisation Programme (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Since the introduction of the ICT in schools initiative in 1998, with the schools IT2000 programme, there has been significant progress in the development of the ICT infrastructure in our schools, in the enhancement of teachers' skills and pedagogical practice and in the development of curriculum and learning resources. My Department has provided capital grants to schools to enable them to...

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I am arranging to have my officials collate the information sought by the Deputy and will have it sent on to him as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The academic requirements for entry to the postgraduate primary teacher training programme is set at honours bachelors degree or level 8 in the national framework of qualifications. The entry requirement for the programme is set at this level to maintain and enhance the quality of teaching and learning in our schools into the future. This entry requirement, together with other criteria, is...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The person in question does not hold relevant teacher qualifications and is employed as an unqualified regular part-time teacher in a secondary school. It has for many years been a condition for membership of the secondary teachers' superannuation scheme that the teacher should be fully qualified. The admission of unqualified teachers to membership of the scheme is being addressed by my...

Written Answers — Educational Projects: Educational Projects (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The project to which the Deputy is referring was established in 2001 as a pilot project to provide assessments for children between the ages of 12 and 16 years from the Finglas and Ballymun areas of the northside of Dublin who had been referred by the courts. The project was a co-operative venture between my Department and the probation and welfare service of the Department of Justice,...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The information which the Deputy has sought is being collated and will be forwarded to him as soon as it becomes available.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The correspondence to which the Deputy refers relates to legal proceedings taken against my Department. In that context, I cannot comment on the individual circumstances of the case other than to say that the letter in question was sent by the Chief State Solicitor's office on the instructions of my officials in response to a letter from the plaintiff's solicitors.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department operates two bonus or merit schemes for all staff — a performance-related awards scheme for posts at the level of assistant Secretaries General and a merit scheme that recognises exceptional performance for all other grades up to and including principal officer and equivalent in the Department. Civil Service posts at the levels of assistant secretary and deputy secretary are...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (12 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The following consultancy contracts were awarded to Deloitte & Touche since 1 July 1997 in my Department. All were fixed price contracts: Year Project Cost 2001 Initial phases of the Management Information Framework (MIF) incorporating Financial Management System (FMS) â'¬88,853.73* 2001 2001 To specify and select a FMS system â'¬42,409.25, excl VAT. ...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (13 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The cost of employing a newly qualified primary school teacher with a pass degree allowance is €34,276.29. The cost of a newly qualified primary school teacher with an honours degree allowance is €38,485.75. These costs are inclusive of employer's PRSI and are based on the current pay rates applicable from 1 June 2005. Details of basic pay and allowances for teachers are set out in...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (13 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Arts education, including visual arts, music and drama, is one of the seven subject areas that comprise the primary curriculum, which was revised in 1999 and is being implemented on a phased basis. The primary curriculum support programme, PCSP, provides professional development support to teachers to assist them in implementing the curriculum. The PSCP is engaged in a wide-range of support...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (13 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Bus Éireann, which operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department, has confirmed that applications in respect of a number of pupils attending the school referred to by the Deputy were received by the relevant local office. However, as the pupils do not reside at least two miles from the school concerned, as required under the terms of the primary school transport scheme,...

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (13 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department allocates funding under the youth service grant scheme on an overall national basis to youth work organisations. It is then a matter for each national organisation to allocate funding on a regional basis as it considers appropriate. Many of these organisations are active in Cork and include the YMCA, Macra na Feirme, EIL Intercultural Learning, Scouting Ireland and the Catholic...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (13 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The decision on eligibility for third level grants is a matter for the relevant local authority or VEC. These bodies do not refer individual applications to my Department except, in exceptional cases, where, for example, advice or instruction regarding a particular clause in the relevant scheme is desired. No such advice or instruction has, to date, been sought in the case of the student...

Written Answers — Physical Education Facilities: Physical Education Facilities (13 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: An application for a new PE hall at the school to which the Deputy refers has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects. The project has been assigned a band four rating and its progress will be considered in the context of the school building and modernisation programme from 2006 onwards.

Written Answers — Schools Funding: Schools Funding (13 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 159 and 172 together. The funding my Department provides to Educate Together as a school management body is on a par with that provided to Foras Patrúnachta na Gaelscoileanna, the Church of Ireland Board of Education, the Islamic Board of Education and the National Association of Boards of Management in Special Education. However, following discussions with...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (13 Oct 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The specific details requested by the Deputy are not available as my Department does not have an aggregate record of the number of complaints it has received regarding the new general allocation system. While it has received many inquiries from both schools and parents, the vast majority of these inquiries would not have been complaining about the new system but rather seeking clarification...