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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: An amendment has been proposed at the Committee Stage in the Seanad to the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Amendment Bill 2018 which would allow the college referred to in the details supplied to the Deputy’s question to use the title of university in the State. The Department has sought legal advice from the Office of the Attorney General on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school in question has recently submitted additional information in support of its application for additional school accommodation. This information is currently being considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority when this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible for allocating a quantum of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. The NCSE allocates SNA support to schools in accordance with the criteria set out in Department Circular 0030/2014, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school in question has recently submitted additional information in support of its application for additional school accommodation. This information is currently being considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority when this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has a statutory function to plan and co-ordinate the provision of education and support services to children with special educational needs including Autism, in consultation with the relevant education partners and the Health Service Executive (HSE). This includes the establishment of special class and special school placements in various...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: I am aware of the demand for additional special class and special school placements in the North Dublin area. I have asked the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) to provide my Department with a report on current and future identified need in the area so that evidence based decisions may be made on the development of the necessary placements in the area for the short, medium and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: Officials at my Department are aware of the accommodation requirements of the school to which the Deputy refers and work is ongoing to ensure that there will be sufficient suitable additional accommodation available to the school for September 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: In November 2018, I announced a plan to have one oral Irish examination for students seeking to gain entry to the primary post graduate programmes run in the four state funded providers DCU, Maynooth University, Marino Institute of Education and Mary Immaculate College. Until now, to apply under the post graduate entry route to primary teaching, applicants who had already satisfied the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: The State Examinations Commission (SEC) is the statutory body with responsibility for the operation of the State Certificate Examinations. The SEC has been working on plans to move from a paper-based to an on-line marking system for the examinations. On-line marking involves examiners viewing scanned images of candidate scripts on screen, (instead of looking at the original paper version)....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Catchment Areas (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: The question of enrolment in individual schools, including the setting of catchment areas, is the responsibility of the managerial authoritites of those schools and my Department does not seek to intervene in decisions made by schools in such matters. It is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act 1998...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: The mechanisms under which a Board of Management member may be removed are as follows: Section 16 of the Education Act, 1998, provides that a patron may, with the consent of the Minister, for good and valid reasons stated in writing to a member of a board of management remove that member from that office, or if satisfied that the functions of a board are not being effectively discharged,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department funds a number of music education organisations, both directly and through a number of initiatives including the Non-Mainstream Music Education Bursary scheme. The Non-Mainstream Music Education Bursary is a DES funded initiative to provide additional funding to non-mainstream educational initiatives. The purpose of the scheme is to provide support by way of a cash grant,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department funds a number of music education organisations, both directly and through a number of initiatives including the Non-Mainstream Music Education Bursary scheme. The Non-Mainstream Music Education Bursary is a DES funded initiative to provide additional funding to non-mainstream educational initiatives. The purpose of the scheme is to provide support by way of a cash grant, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: The Department's Capital Programme continues to address the challenges posed by the significant bulge in pupil enrolments going through our schools. This has seen a significant expansion in the rate of provision of new school places. The Capital Programme details the school projects that are being progressed through the architectural planning process. The Capital Programme also provides...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Contracts (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: There are supplementary panel arrangements in place to facilitate SNAs made redundant by one employer in filling SNA vacancies that may become available in another school / ETB. These arrangements were agreed between management and staff side representative bodies and are subject to annual reviews by these parties. The current SNA supplementary assignment panel arrangements for the 2018/19...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: The criteria used for the allocation of teaching posts is published annually 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 previous 30 September. The staffing schedule operates in a clear and transparent manner and treats all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department has been in contact with the school in question relating to the application for additional accommodation. The school has agreed to submit additional technical information in support of the application and this is awaited. The application can be considered further when this information has been received.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Eligibility (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department has introduced an objective, statistics based model for assessing which schools merit inclusion in the DEIS Programme, so that all stakeholders can have confidence that we are targeting extra resources at those schools with the highest levels of concentrated disadvantage. The key data sources used in the DEIS identification process are the DES Primary Online Database (POD) and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: In order to build a political consensus regarding a future approach to funding the higher education sector, the then Minister for Education and Skills referred the expert group report on future funding of higher education to the Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills for their consideration. The Committee requested that my Department undertake an economic examination of the three policy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (29 Jan 2019)

Joe McHugh: The public service agreements have allowed a programme of pay restoration for public servants to start. The starting salary for a new entrant teacher in 2012 was €30,702. As a result of the programme of pay restoration, the starting salary of a teacher is now €36,318 and from 1 October 2020 onwards will be €37,692. A teacher hired in September 2011 will see their salary...