Results 6,081-6,100 of 13,291 for speaker:Joe McHugh

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter for SUSI to determine. In assessing an application for the 2018/19 academic year, SUSI will have regard to the following qualifying criteria for the special rate of maintenance grant: 1. The student must qualify for the standard rate of grant; 2. Total reckonable income, after income disregards and Child Dependant Increase(s) are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Expenditure (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: Education and Training Boards (ETBs) are separate legal entities provided for under the Education and Training Board Act 2013. Each ETB is responsible for legal matters, including legal costs arising in that ETB. Legal costs are managed directly by ETBs from within financial allocations available to them. Accordingly my Department is not directly involved in expenditure on legal fees in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: Details of consultancy payments made by my Department for the years 2013 to 2017 inclusive are available on the Department's website www.education.ie/en/Publications/Corporate-Reports/Financial -Reports/Expenditure-on-Consultancy. Information in relation to consultancy expenditure is compiled annually in respect of theprevious year. The data in respect of 2018 will not be available until...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: Details of the total amounts paid to retired Department inspectors for the years 2013-2017 inclusive are set out in the table below having regard to data protection legislation. Information in relation to these engagements is compiled annually in respect of the previous year. The data in respect of 2018 will be available in early 2019. The retired inspectors were engaged to perform a variety...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: Administrative Leave is a temporary leave of absence, with pay, which may be granted where it is necessary for a teacher to be absented from work in order to carry out an investigation. It may only be granted in limited situations where the continued presence of a teacher has the potential to present an on-going risk such as situations concerning child protection, serious misconduct or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 260 together. I wish to advise the Deputies that my Department has not received any correspondence from the Patron of the school concerned relating to plans to close the school. I also wish to advise the Deputies that my Department is very aware of the importance of small schools to rural communities and particularly the most dispersed and remote...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: The number of financial settlements and the cost of these settlements, reached by the Department of Education and Skills with staff in schools over the past five years is included in the following table. Year The number of financial settlements reached by the Department of Education and Skills in the last five years with staff in Schools. The cost of these settlements. 2014 0 2015 0 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: The number of financial settlements and the cost of these settlements reached by the Department of Education & Skills with students in schools over the past five years is included in the following table. Year The number of financial settlements reached by the Department of Education & Skills in the last five years. The Cost of these settlements (Legal costs and Ex-Gratia)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: The number of financial settlements reached by the Department of Education and Skills which included confidentiality clauses in the last five years is included in the following table. Year The number of financial settlements reached by the Department of Education & Skills which included confidentiality clauses. 2014 1 2015 1 2016 3 2017 1 2018 2 Total 8

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question submitted an application for major capital funding to my Department. The Deputy will be aware that the National Development Plan (NDP) provides for an €8.4 billion investment in school buildings over the period 2018 to 2027 to deliver on NDP and National Planning Framework objectives through addressing the twin priorities of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: While my Department understands that the pre-qualification process for the project to which the Deputy refers is well advanced, a pre-qualification report is still awaited in my Department. This is expected shortly. Once this has been received and reviewed, my Department expects to be in a position to firm up approval for the project to proceed to tender to the short listed contractors. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: I understand that the school in question is located in a property provided by the patron. The Deputy will be aware that the immediate priority of my Department is providing 20,000 new and replacement school places each year, to ensure that every child has a school place. The National Development Plan (NDP) provides for an €8.4 billion investment in school buildings over the period...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: University Governance (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: A university will regularly host visiting academics from other higher education institutions contributing to the university’s teaching, research and professional activities. An Adjunct Professor may be an eminent leader in their field and a person of distinction and high achievement. They may possess industry, business, science, academic or professional qualifications and expertise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: The Report of the Action Group on Access to Third Level Education made detailed recommendations concerning the introduction of special rates of maintenance grants for disadvantaged students. The target group of "those most in need" was defined in terms of the dependants of people receiving long-term welfare payments, where the necessary conditions are fulfilled. The decision on eligibility...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. With this information, my Department carries out nationwide demographic exercises to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: I can confirm that none of my officials or Ministers in their capacity as representatives of the Department of Education and Skills, have met with the company referred to by the Deputy in the past three years.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff Appeals Mechanism (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: The criteria used for the allocation of teaching posts for the 2018/2019 school year is set out in Circular 0010/2018, which is available on the Department website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the 30 September 2017. The staffing arrangements...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: I wish to advise the Deputy that arrangements have been put in place by the School to accommodate all students affected as a result of the decision to close Phase 1 of the school building. Transition Year students will be accommodated within the school, while the adjacent Community Centre has made its premises available to the School while the issues with the Phase 1 building are being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy may be aware, the current focus for my Department is to prioritise the 17 schools due to be established in 2019 so that patrons can be appointed and accommodation solutions put in place as soon as possible. My Department has appointed a Project Manager to assist with this work and potential interim accommodation options have been identified for the majority of the 17 schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that funding was recently approved to enable the school in question to build six classrooms, a Home Economics room, a Science Laboratory, a Science room preparation area, additional toilets and to refurbish the existing plant room. The project has been devolved for delivery to the school's Patron which is the local Education and Training Board.