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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 249 and 250 together. My Department is in the process of acquiring 31 sites in respect of the schools’ listed on the 6-Year Construction Programme, as published on my Department’s website, dated 31stJanuary 2019. A further 6 sites is being acquired by the Patron bodies in respect of these schools’. In addition, my Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (19 Feb 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: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: A project to provide a new permanent new school building for the school referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department 6 Year Capital Programme and a site for the new school building has been identified and the process for the acquisition of this site is currently with my Department's Site Acquisition & Property Management Section. The Department expects to progress this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The project referred to by the Deputy has been devolved for delivery to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA). I can inform the Deputy that the NDFA has started preparations for the appointment of a design team for the project. This appointment will be a key first step in the design and construction stages. While at this early stage it is not possible to provide a timeline for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department anticipates that the planning application will be lodged with Dublin City Council not later that early March 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department anticipates that the additional temporary accommodation for the school will be in place for the coming September and that alternative arrangements will not be necessary. My officials will keep the matter under regular review and will keep the school authorities informed accordingly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The Teaching Council is the body with statutory responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession including the registration of teachers in Ireland. The Teaching Council's (Registration) Regulations 2016 (SI 444 of 2016) set out the requirements to be registered as a teacher in Ireland. Under these regulations there are four defined routes to registration, namely Route 1 Primary;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy may be aware, the Government recently announced plans for the establishment of 42 new schools over the next four years (2019 to 2022). This announcement follows nationwide demographic exercises carried out by my Department into the future need for primary and post-primary schools across the country and the 4-year horizon will enable increased lead-in times for planning and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Liúntais do Mhúinteoirí (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Tá na sonraí a d’iarr an Teachta leagtha amach sna táblaí atá ceangailte. Bunscoile Liúntas Gaeltachta Liúntas um Múineadh trí Ghaeilge Liúntas Teagaisc ar Oileán 1,752,020.13 2,359,371.90 54,346.20 1,776,741.88 2,441,778.64 51,662.28 1,692,316.97 2,439,437.14 47,279.39 1,611,248.03 2,375,702.31 38,943.62 1,594,336.27...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: School building projects in excess of €10m typically arise at post-primary level rather than at primary level. It can generally take quite a while for final accounts on projects to be submitted by contractors and then get finalised and agreed. Over the period since 2016 a total of five large-scale projects that delivered eight new school buildings had building contracts in excess of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I wish to advise the Deputy that the decision making authority for a school closure belongs to the Patron of a school, and this is subject to the agreement of my Department. Any proposal to close a school must involve consultation with all of the relevant stakeholders, parents, teachers, students and local communities and follow decisions taken at local level. My Department is engaging...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts Data (19 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I assume the Deputy’s question relates to building projects under my Department’s Capital Programme. The relevant school authority, as distinct from my Department, is the client and awarding authority for the vast bulk of projects delivered under the school building programme. However, the procurement approach for the delivery of all school building projects is set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The NCSE is responsible, through it's network of Special Needs Organisers, for the development and delivery and co-ordination of education services to children with Special Educational Needs, including the establishment of special class and special school placements. Since 2011, the NCSE has increased the number of special classes from 548 in 2011 to 1,459 across the country now, of which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (20 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Under the terms of the student grant scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students who meet the prescribed conditions of funding including those which relate to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. Article 32 (1) of the Student Grant Scheme 2018 provides for the possibility of a review of eligibility during the academic year where a change of circumstance has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (20 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, is my Department’s main policy initiative aimed at tackling educational disadvantage in primary and post primary schools and DEIS Plan 2017, launched in February 2017, sets out the vision for future interventions in the critical area of educational disadvantage policy. It builds on what has already been achieved by schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 and 110 together. The Schools Bundle 5 Public Private Partnership (PPP) programme comprises five school buildings, including the school referred to by the Deputy, and one further education college across four sites in Bray, Wexford, Carlow and Kells. Completion of these projects was delayed due to the liquidation of Carillion Construction Ltd in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (20 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Following a consultation process, in June 2018, the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht published the 5 year Action Plan for Irish, to provide a more cohesive and coherent framework in support of the 20-Year Strategy’s implementation, focusing on specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-specific actions to be implemented over the next five years to 2022. My...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (20 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The immigration regime which applies to non-EEA students seeking to have their children accompany them during their study period in Ireland is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality. I can confirm that this Department does not administer an immigration levy for non-EEA students attending state schools.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (20 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The major building project for the first school to which the Deputy refers is included on the 6 Year Programme 2016 – 2021. It was announced on 17thNovember 2015 to go to tender and construction. This project is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. All statutory approvals have been secured and a report on this stage of the process (stage 2B, detailed design) is expected in...