Results 7,801-7,820 of 8,873 for speaker:Batt O'Keeffe
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (9 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 716 and 717 together. My Department provides funding for thirty eight projects in Local Drugs Task Force areas, including the project specifically referred to by Deputy Flanagan. Allocations for this project over the past five years, and for 2010, are as follows: - 2005 â â¬166,363 2006 â â¬175,036 2007 â â¬182,038 2008 â â¬182,038 2009 â...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (9 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: I understand that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) expects to be in a position shortly to send me a copy of the research it has commissioned concerning the role of special schools and special classes. While the NCSE has funded this research, it states clearly on its website, and the final research item will state, that the views and opinions contained in such research...
- Written Answers — Information Technology in Schools: Information Technology in Schools (9 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: The "Smart Schools = Smart Economy Report", published late last year, builds on the 2008 ICT Strategy Group Report "Investing Effectively in Information and Communications Technology in Schools" which was produced by a Strategy Group comprised in the main of education professionals who were working on a daily basis in schools and colleges; in addition the group consulted widely. This Strategy...
- Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (9 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: My Department introduced the Cycle to Work Scheme in July 2009 and to date 37 staff members have participated in the scheme. The administrative cost to my Department is minimal having regard to the number of participants in the scheme and the fact that payment to the suppliers and salary deductions are performed electronically. Information in relation to applications received from teaching...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: All applications received in my Department for large scale capital funding are assessed against published prioritisation criteria. Following this assessment, individual projects are assigned a Band rating which reflects the type of work needed and the urgency attaching to it. There are four Band ratings in all with Band 1 being the highest and Band 4 the lowest. Projects are progressed in...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: The project to which the Deputy refers is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning. Representatives from the school and its design team recently attended a briefing by my Department on the requirements for completing stage 2(b) of architectural planning, following which the project was approved to progress to stage 2(b). The proposed building project will be considered in...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: I assume the Deputy is referring to the posts recently allocated under the renewed Programme for Government which provides for 500 teaching posts to schools over the next three years over and above additional posts that will arise due to demographic increases. One hundred posts have been allocated to each sector, primary and post-primary in the current school year. At primary level posts...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: The project to which the Deputy refers is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning. The progression of all large scale building projects, including this project, from initial design stage through to construction is dependent on the prioritisation of competing demands on the funding available under the Department's capital budget. The proposed building project will be...
- Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations including organising the holding of examinations and determining procedures in places where examinations are conducted including the supervision of examinations. I can inform the Deputy that the Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the...
- Written Answers — Educational Projects: Educational Projects (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: My Department provides funding for thirty eight projects in Local Drugs Task Force areas, including the two projects specifically referred to by Deputy McGrath. These projects, through a variety of programmes and activities, seek, in the main, to encourage young people not to engage in drug-taking. My Department originally took on responsibility for funding these projects through a...
- Written Answers — Educational Projects: Educational Projects (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: I wish to advise that a request from the local drugs task force has been received by the Department in relation to the property referred to by the Deputy. This request is currently being considered by the Department. Any decision in relation to this property will in the first instance be in the context of considering the potential future educational use of the property.
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for allocating resource teachers and Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. All schools...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 294 and 295 together. The school to which the Deputy refers has made an application to my Department for large scale capital funding. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects and assigned a Band 2 rating. Due to the level of demand on my Department's capital budget, it is not...
- Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: To date, 36 employees of my Department have availed of the Cycle to Work Scheme. The Scheme remains available to staff and there are no changes to the scheme being planned in my Department.
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Under the terms of the student grant schemes, a student is not eligible for grant assistance in respect of a second period of study at the same level, irrespective of whether or not a grant was paid previously. The decision on eligibility for student grants is a matter for the relevant assessing authority, i.e. the Local Authority or VEC. These bodies do not refer individual applications to...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (10 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: My Department has not received an application for home tuition on behalf of the child in question. I have arranged for an application form to issue to his parents at the address supplied by the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Car Scrappage Scheme: Car Scrappage Scheme (11 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) will qualify under the motor scrappage scheme. [7403/10]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 231, 247 and 294 together. The Deputies will be aware that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for allocating resource teachers and Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (11 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school to which he refers has made an application to my Department for large scale capital funding. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects and assigned a Band 2 rating. Information in respect of the current school building programme along with all assessed applications...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Arrangements are being made to have the special needs assistant employed by the Board of Management of the school referred to, from September 2009 to December 2009 paid retrospectively on my Department's payroll. The refund of any money paid by the school to the special needs assistant is a matter for the school to recoup directly from the person in question.