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Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (5 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: The Programme for Government includes a commitment to review the school transport system, including catchment boundaries. The Department is currently developing proposals to advance this commitment.

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (5 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: Towards 2016, the Social Partnership Agreement 2006-2015, provides for consideration to be given to the need for a further plan following a review in 2008 of the National Youth Work Development Plan 2003-2007. The Programme for Government commits to supporting a new Youth Work Development Plan for the period 2008 – 2012. In that context my Department will commence the process of reviewing...

Written Answers — Education Schemes: Education Schemes (5 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: The Back to Education Initiative commenced in October 2002 to provide for flexible part-time options across Further Education. Its priority is to those adults with less than upper second level education. The programme's aim is to give adults who wish to return to education an opportunity to combine their return to learning with family, work and other responsibilities. Programmes are offered...

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (7 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: A survey of the accommodation needs in the Further Education Sector was initiated in May 2007. This involved sending a questionnaire to all VECs asking them to provide the following information An outline of the capital funding requirements in the Further Education area of their VEC A list the funding requirements in order of priority A note on whether the proposed projects were of immediate...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (7 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: Bus Éireann, which operates the school transport scheme, has informed my Department that the children referred by the Deputy, in the details supplied, are not eligible for transport to the school in question. It is open to pupils who are not attending their nearest school to apply for concessionary transport to the school which they are attending. Parents of the pupils should liaise with...

Written Answers — Voluntary Sector Funding: Voluntary Sector Funding (12 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 442 and 465 together. In assessing applications for funding, consideration is given to Department supported interventions already in place in the areas concerned so as to avoid duplication of effort and resource. My Department currently supports the educational element of eight Teenage Parenting Support Projects under the Health Services Executive's Teenage...

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (12 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: My Department has received an application for funding in 2008 from the centre in question. Pending completion of the 2008 funding allocations process and owing to budgetary constraints and the high level of existing commitments in the sector, I am not in a position to make any commitments with regard to funding for new Youth Information Centres.

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (13 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: The School Transport Section of my Department has no record of an application for school transport for the pupil, referred to by the Deputy, in the details supplied. The National Council for Special Education has responsibility, through its network of Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for the establishment of special education facilities and for allocating resource teachers and...

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (14 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: Six (6) special projects for youth in Co. Kildare that operate under the aegis of Kildare Youth Service are currently in receipt of annual grant-in-aid funding under my Department's Special Projects for Youth Scheme. Details of these projects are outlined hereunder in tabular form: Project 2007 Grant € Athy Youth Project 89,494 Ballycane-Sarto (Naas) 105,000 Leixlip Youth Project...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (14 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: My Department has requested a report from Bus Éireann on the background to this case. The matter will be given further consideration as soon as the report is received.

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (19 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: I recently met a delegation on behalf of the project in question. According to my Department's records, applications were submitted annually on behalf of the project in question for funding under the Special Projects for Youth Scheme from 2005 to 2008. There is a large demand each year for financial assistance under my Department's Special Projects for Youth Scheme and a large proportion of...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: My Department has asked Bus Éireann, which operates the School Transport Scheme, to submit a report on the background to the case referred to by the Deputy, in the details supplied. The case will be considered on receipt of this report.

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: The pupils referred to by the Deputy, in the details supplied, are not eligible for school transport to the school in question as they reside in a 'closed school area'. In the case of amalgamations, pupils residing in a 'closed school area' are eligible to the school of amalgamation only.

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (20 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: Bus Éireann operates the school transport services on behalf of my Department. It is a major logistical operation which involves the planning of bus routes in such a way as to ensure that, as far as possible, eligible pupils have a reasonable level of service while, at the same time, ensuring that school transport vehicles are fully utilised in an efficient and effective manner. As a rule,...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: The Minister, Deputy Mary Hanafin, regrets she could not be present for the entire debate, but she is preparing for the Student Support Bill which is scheduled to be taken in the Dáil this afternoon. Senators will appreciate that it is an important Bill which is being welcomed across the board by students generally. I have listened to the debate for the past hour and to the discussion on...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: ——and to help them become as independent as possible and to have as full a life as possible when they are adults. This is as true for children with autism as for any other child.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: The Government has worked hard to put in place a continuum of educational provision for all children with autism. This continuum has at its core a child-centred approach. The education provided for each child must be highly structured and individualised to meet that child's needs. Children with autism need to be taught how to learn which the rest of us take for granted. The network of...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (26 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: The Deputy will be aware, from my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 19 February, 2008, that the pupils referred to, in the details supplied, are not eligible for free school transport. In that regard, the payment of a grant does not arise.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (26 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: I thank the Senator for raising this matter as it provides me with the opportunity to outline the Government's strategy for capital investment in education projects and the current position in regard to the future plans for Gaelscoil Bharra in Cabra. Modernising facilities in our 3,300 primary and 731 post-primary schools is not an easy task given the legacy of decades of under-investment in...

Written Answers — Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (27 Feb 2008)

Seán Haughey: The Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS) is a second — chance education initiative, which is funded by my Department, for unemployed persons who are at least 21 years of age and in receipt of certain social welfare payments for at least six months. It is operated through the Vocational Education Committees. The aim of the Scheme is to give unemployed people education and training...