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Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides a mechanism whereby additional institutions may be considered for inclusion in the Schedule to the Act. Since the enactment of the legislation my Department has received correspondence from both individuals and survivor groups identifying a number of additional institutions that may be eligible for inclusion. Consultations...

Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department welcomes the proposal from the boards of management of the schools in question to amalgamate. To progress the matter, a technical examination of the existing school buildings was carried out to ascertain if either would be suitable to act as a host for the newly emerging school. Unfortunately, neither was deemed suitable and my Department now intends to proceed by way of...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The project at the school has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria, which were revised following consultation with the education partners. The assessment made by the school in December last was taken into consideration in this procedure. The project will be considered under the 2005 school building programme. I recently announced the first phase of the 2005...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The school submitted an application for grant aid under the summer works scheme 2005 for alteration works to the school entrance, secretary's office and general purpose hall. All summer works scheme applications are being assessed in the school planning section of my Department. I intend to publish the list of successful applicants shortly.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The school submitted an application for grant aid under the summer works scheme 2005 for security works to the school building. All summer works scheme applications are being assessed in the school planning section of my Department. I intend to publish the list of successful applicants shortly.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has not conducted any specific studies into the applied behaviour analysis method of teaching children with autism. However, my inspectorate has conducted an evaluation of provision for pupils with autism, using a sample of schools across various settings. Centres supported by my Department and using an applied behaviour analysis approach, but generally not exclusively so, were...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Construction work is under way on the new school and it is envisaged that it will be completed in the latter half of 2005.

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I am not aware of any proposal being developed within my Department to introduce guidelines for UK qualified primary school teachers in regard to religious education training. The position regarding religious education in primary schools is governed by paragraphs 68 and 69 in the rules and regulations for primary schools. A deed of variation was agreed between the education partners in 1997...

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The application for provisional recognition referred to by the Deputy was submitted to my Department in November, 2004 and received consideration within the primary administration section and the inspectorate. The documentation required of applicants, as outlined in circular 25/00, includes a request for detailed information on course content, normally provided by the teacher education...

Written Answers — Employment Appeals Tribunal: Employment Appeals Tribunal (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: These matters are the subject of proceedings brought by the person concerned before the Employment Appeals Tribunal in which the school authority and my Department have been named. They are being dealt with through the legal representatives engaged by both sides. The hearing into his claim is continuing and it would be inappropriate for me to comment further on the matters before the tribunal.

Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Under the terms of the third level student support schemes — clause 7.6 of the higher education grants scheme — maintenance grants are not payable to candidates who already hold an undergraduate degree and are pursuing a second undergraduate degree. Similarly tuition fees are not payable in respect of a second period of college attendance at the same level. As the student referred to by...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The decision on eligibility for third level grants is a matter for the relevant local authority or vocational education committee who administer the terms of the various student maintenance grant schemes under the aegis of my Department. These bodies do not refer individual applications to my Department except, in exceptional cases, where, for example, advice or instruction regarding a...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Learning support is not allocated on the basis of applications in respect of individual pupils. Accordingly the information sought by the Deputy is not available. In general, schools are advised to consult the learning support guidelines which have issued from my Department. The Deputy will be aware of the new system for resource teacher allocation which involves a general allocation for all...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Provision of individual psychological assessments is part of the work of the educational psychologists in the national educational psychological service. The psychologists do not keep waiting lists of children requiring assessment in the sense of lists of names that are dealt with in chronological order. School authorities refer children for assessment and discuss the relative urgency of each...

Written Answers — Student Unions: Student Unions (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has received a business plan from the Union of Secondary Students. This is being considered in the context of a request from the Union of Secondary Students for my Department to fund its operation. A response will be issued to the union in due course.

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: A whole school evaluation was conducted by my Department's inspectorate on Kilkenny city vocational school during the last school term. Following an oral presentation of the findings to the chief executive officer of the vocational education committee, boards of management in the school and the staff a written report was sent to the chief executive, the boards of management of the school and...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has approved an additional teaching post and three special needs assistant posts at the school concerned to support the additional pupil intake. The school authorities were notified on 10 January 2005.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department does not have an active application for additional classrooms from the school to which the Deputy refers. However, it is understood that an extension comprising classrooms was recently built at the school which is a private, fee-paying facility.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The provision of a PE hall at the school to which the Deputy refers has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria, which were revised following consultation with the education partners. Progress on this project is being considered in the context of the school building programme. The first phase of the 2005 school building programme was recently announced,...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Capital funding is provided from the annual second level capital allocation for the refurbishment of science laboratories undertaken as part of an overall refurbishment programme of a second level school, for the upgrading of science facilities exclusively or by provision of new facilities in the case of new or extended schools. I have also provided for class materials, basic general...