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- Seanad: Student Enrolment. (14 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: Absolutely.
- Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: In-service courses.
- Appropriation Bill 2005: Order for Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
- Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Financial Resolution. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I move: That provision be made in the Act giving effect to this resolution for the charging in accordance with the Act of certain fees, being fees for the granting, amendment or renewal by the Irish Medicines Board of licences, authorisations or certificates.
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The home tuition scheme is primarily intended to provide compensatory instruction for pupils who have a medical ailment that is likely to cause major disruption to their attendance at school. My Department provides home tuition grants in respect of pupils who cannot attend school at all, or who are absent for a significant proportion of the school year. The Department also sanctions home...
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: Deputy Crowe has raised several issues. Irrespective of whether the child moved from one school to another the tuition grant would have been stopped for the first school because we hold the view that school-based education provision is the most appropriate intervention for all children, including those with special educational needs. Where a child is attending full-time education, there is no...
- Multi-Denominational Schools. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: There is an open and transparent process in place for the recognition of new primary schools. A central element of this process is that patron bodies wishing to establish new schools must identify the level of demand for the provision of education under the ethos proposed and that potential enrolment will meet certain minimum targets. Under this process all patron bodies are treated on an...
- Multi-Denominational Schools. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The sector in question is the fastest growing category in the primary school area. In 1997, there were only 18 multi-denominational schools, while now the figure has more than doubled to 39. When one sees the census returns and the growing multiculturalism of our society, this demand will continue to grow. The first priority for the Department of Education and Science is to ensure a...
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The general allocation of learning support-resource teachers to schools is intended to cater for children with learning support and high incidence special educational needs. Learning support-resource teacher allocations are based on pupil numbers, taking into account the differing needs of the most disadvantaged schools and the evidence that boys have greater difficulties than girls in this...
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I have already met some of the principals, boards of management and other relevant individuals from some of the schools in the north inner city to which the Deputy referred.
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The Deputy stated the schools in question are losing numbers. I note these schools have pupil-teacher ratios of 10.5:1, 10:1, 8:1ââ
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: It is not irrelevant because the Deputy asked whether I accept the areas he mentioned are disadvantaged.
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The Department accepts they are disadvantaged which is the reason they have secured such high teacher-pupil ratios. Our objective is to encourage participation in the education system. The pupil-teacher ratio in one of the schools referred to is 6.9 to one. In light of the requests received, the Department asked the schools to submit details of individual cases. These have not yet been...
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The Department is awaiting details from the schools and as soon as these are receivedââ
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: All the Department is asking for is details from the schools regarding who the children are and what they need. That information has not been received and as soon as it comesââ
- Special Educational Needs. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I have met some of the relevant principals already.
- Schools Building Projects. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The Deputy appears to have gone to Mayo. He will be aware, however, from responses to previous parliamentary questions that my Department has been actively pursuing the acquisition of a suitable site for the school referred to and I am pleased to inform the House that the property management section of the Office of Public Works, which acts on behalf of my Department regarding site purchase,...
- Schools Building Projects. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: Obviously we must wait until the site is legally tied down. The first priority for Deputy Cowley was to ensure we secured a site, a process which has been under way for some time. I am pleased to note a site has been identified and the only remaining issue is the exchange of contracts. Once this has been finalised, it will be possible to consider moving the school.
- Adult Education. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I do not give preference to my own constituency.
- Educational Disadvantage. (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 9 and 96 together. The information sought by the Deputy regarding participation for the identified areas is not collected by my Department. Since the introduction of free second level education, the average national participation in third level education among second level school leavers has grown from 11% to a current average of approximately 54%. The gap...