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Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy submitted an updated application for capital funding towards the provision of a staff room in December last. All applications received in the Department are banded in accordance with the prioritisation criteria put in place following consultation with the education partners. Progression of projects within the school building and modernisation programme is...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: An application for capital funding towards the provision of an extension was received in December 2005 from the school referred to by the Deputy. The application is being assessed to determine the long term accommodation needs of the school. A decision will then be taken on how best to provide for the school's needs.

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Catchment boundaries have their origins in the establishment of free post-primary education in the late 1960s and were determined following consultation with local educational interests. For planning purposes the country was divided into geographic districts each with several primary schools feeding into a post-primary centre with one or more post-primary schools. The intention was and...

Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Discussions are still ongoing with the trustees of the schools to which the Deputy refers with regard to progressing the agreed amalgamation of the schools.

Written Answers — Capital Funding: Capital Funding (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: An application for capital funding towards the provision of an extension has been received from the school referred to by the Deputy. The project is being considered in the context of the school building and modernisation programme 2006-10. The Deputy will be aware that I have made a number of announcements already this year as regards the 2006 school building programme and will be make...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The proposed refurbishment and extension project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning. Following increased enrolments in the school, a revised schedule of overall accommodation issued to the school in early 2005. The school's design team was requested to submit a revised stage 1/2/3 based on this new brief. This documentation has been...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: An application for capital funding towards the provision of an extension has been received from the school referred to by the Deputy. The project is being considered in the context of the school building and modernisation programme 2006-10. The Deputy will be aware that I have made a number of announcements already this year in regard to the 2006 school building programme and will be making...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has received a further report from the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, on the application in question. This is currently being considered and my officials will revert to the NCSE if further information is required. My officials will notify all relevant parties when a decision on the application has been made. I am most anxious that all children, including children...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: My Department recently received correspondence from Cork City Council seeking advice on this candidate's application. As soon as my Department has made a decision on the case Cork City Council will be notified.

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The process of identifying primary schools for participation in the new school support programme under the DEIS, delivering equality of opportunity in school, programme, has now been completed, and schools are being notified of the results.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: A total of 296 people on the payroll of my Department are not working in the Department of Education and Science. Salaries of all but seven of these cases are recouped by my Department on a quarterly basis from the employing body. The remaining seven officers of my Department are on loan to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The majority of the 296 people concerned are...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department is in receipt of an application for additional accommodation from the school to which the Deputy refers. The school's application for capital funding has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects. Progress on the proposed works will be considered in the context of the school building...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Primary schools' running costs are met by my Department's scheme of capitation grants. These grants are intended to contribute towards the general operating costs of national schools which would include heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, painting, teaching aids and other miscellaneous charges. The capitation grant has been increased substantially in recent years. Since 1997 the standard...

Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The initiative to amalgamate the schools to which the Deputy refers was taken by the school planning section of my Department after consultation with the patron and following a review of educational provision in the area. This review highlighted that enrolments at the three schools concerned has declined by 40% over a ten year period to 2004-05. The drop in enrolments has resulted in...

Written Answers — Parent-Teacher Meetings: Parent-Teacher Meetings (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Best practice would suggest that parents should be able to meet their child's teachers at any point during the year at a mutually agreeable time to discuss the student's progress, without having to wait for a formal parent-teacher meeting. In regard to formal parent-teacher meetings, an agreement with the second level teacher unions has been in place since 2004-05. This agreement, which is...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware that the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, has been operational since 1 January 2005 and is responsible for processing applications for special educational needs supports. There are currently two special needs assistants, SNAs, employed in the school in question. I understand that the local special educational needs organiser, SENO, has considered an...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The summer works scheme was introduced in 2004 to provide capital grants for small scale improvement works to schools. A large number of applications were received and assessed during the first year of this scheme. In the intervening years the scheme has been modified and revised and it is now more specific in terms of the onus resting with the school authority to ensure that the consultant...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The proposed refurbishment and extension project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning. Following a site visit to the school by officials from my Department in October 2005, a letter issued to the VEC in November 2005 with copies of the revised schedules. This was with the intention that the VEC request its design team to amend the stage 1 —...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: An application for additional classroom accommodation from the school referred to by the Deputy has been received in school planning section and is under consideration. In addition, the overall accommodation needs of the school are being examined to ensure that any capital funding being provided is appropriate to meet the school's long term accommodation needs. When a decision is made on the...

Written Answers — Capitation Grants: Capitation Grants (28 Feb 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 477 and 478 together. Of the 59 fee-charging second level schools referred to by the Deputy, one is Jewish, 21 Protestant, two inter-denominational and the balance Catholic. The Protestant and Jewish schools receive funding by way of a block grant, which has its origins in the desire of the State to enable students of the Protestant and Jewish persuasions to...