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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (5 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department, either directly or through the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), provides for a range of supports in schools to enable them cater for students with special educational needs including additional teachers, Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) and specialist equipment. The precise model of provision made will depend on the pupil's...

Written Answers — Ministerial Meetings: Ministerial Meetings (5 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: I meet with individual members of my Management Advisory Committee (MAC) on a regular basis to discuss various policy and strategic issues. I am also regularly briefed by members of the MAC as necessary by phone and through written submissions. There are also occasions when I need to meet with the collective MAC to discuss issues that affect the Department as a whole. Since my arrival in...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (5 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: The detailed information requested by the Deputy is an administrative matter for each agency and is not readily available in my Department. My Department recently undertook to collate information regarding rent paid by agencies in respect of 2010 and this information is set out below. The Deputy may also wish to note that the location details for the offices of the agencies under the aegis...

Written Answers — Departmental Estimates: Departmental Estimates (5 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: The following table contains comparable expenditure figures for my Vote for the years 2007-2011. You will note that it also includes a breakdown of expenditure on the Skills Development and Nurses Education Programmes in 2010 and 2011 as a result of: (a) the transfer in 2010 of certain functions in relation to Skills Development from the former Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment...

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (5 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: I set out below two tables for the information of the Deputy. Table No. 1. sets out details in relation to numbers of second level pupils, places funded by my Department in Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses, Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS), Youthreach, Senior Traveller Training Centres and participants in Back to Education Initiative, Adult Literacy and Community...

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (5 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: The new VEC structure fits with the Government's policy of reducing the number of agencies and is consistent with the strategic objectives of the transforming public service agenda through service delivery by a smaller number of agencies, each benefiting from efficiencies of greater scale. This change will better position the sector for future development and will facilitate the required...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department's Secretary General is not a member of any State Agency Board.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: Punch and Judy.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: You guys certainly filled them.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy should ask the guys in front of him.

Business of Dáil (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: On a point of information, I understand there is a motion of referral of the Estimates to select committees which I have been requested to move. Are there other committees which have yet to deal with Estimates and does a formal motion need to be moved?

Presentation of Estimates: Motion (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 159(1) or (2) of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business, Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2011, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members on 6th July, 2011, being a date later than that prescribed for the presentation of Estimates and that the Revised Estimates be...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers applied to my Department for large scale capital funding for an extension/refurbishment including a GP Room, toilets and ancillary accommodation. In accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects, the project for this school has been assigned a Band 3 rating. Information in respect of the...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: This allowance is payable to teachers with specified qualifications working in designated special needs positions. An application from the teacher concerned for payment of this allowance has not been received by my Department. An application form may be obtained by contacting the Teacher/SNA Terms and Conditions Section of my Department.

Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 and 93 together. Chaplain posts are allocated in respect of Community and Comprehensive Schools and designated Community Colleges. The breakdown requested on a county basis is set out below. There are currently 147 whole time equivalent posts allocated in respect of chaplaincy services at a cost of almost €9 million for the 2010/2011 school year. ...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: I regret that the economic circumstances of the country are such that I am not in a position to reverse or alter any of the changes to the student grant measures announced in Budget 2011 by the previous Fianna Fáil - Green Party Government. These changes included an increase in the qualifying distance criterion for the non-adjacent rate of grant. I understand the concerns of students with...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to inform the Deputy that 10,575 whole time equivalent (WTE) posts are being provided for SNA support for the coming school year. This is a significant number of posts and unlike other areas of the public sector vacancies are being filled up to this number. It is considered that with equitable and careful management and distribution of these resources that there should be sufficient...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department has been in correspondence with the schools referred to by the Deputy regarding the staffing requirements for 2011/12. I understand the concerns raised by the board of management and the principal have now been addressed.

Written Answers — National Framework of Qualifications: National Framework of Qualifications (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: Awards made by the provider referred to by the Deputy are not recognised by my Department, whether as equivalent to a particular level of the National Framework of Qualifications or otherwise, and never have been recognised by my Department. Furthermore I am not aware of any contact or correspondence between my Department and the provider concerned regarding the equivalence of their awards....

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (6 Jul 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: Academic matters including the admissions criteria for entry to higher education institutions are legally a matter for the institutions themselves. However, I have been informed that the following universities and Institutes of Technology operate a second chance examination aimed at students who do not fulfil the matriculation requirements in Mathematics through their Leaving Certificate...