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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy 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 Department's criteria in allocating such support. This now...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that a number of sections of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs (EPSEN) Act have already been commenced. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) made recommendations which suggested that additional investment over a period of years of up to €235m per annum, across the education and health sectors, would be required to fully implement...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy is aware, approval has been given for the opening of a new primary school under the patronage of Educate Together in September 2012 in the area concerned. Arrangements for accommodation for this school are currently being advanced by my Department, in liaison with the Patron Body.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The new simplified approach to the General Allocation Model of support for schools will make it easier to automatically update it annually in line with the changes in the number of classroom teachers in each school. Schools will also have autonomy on how to deploy the resource between language support and learning support depending on their specific needs. The arrangements for the staffing...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 80 and 81 together. As announced in the house on the 11th January, I have asked my Department for a report on the impact of the withdrawal of certain posts allocated under previous disadvantaged schemes in DEIS Band 1 and Band 2 primary schools. This report, which is currently being finalised, will detail the facts for each individual school affected by this...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) published its policy advice on The Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Ireland on 3 February, 2012. This paper provides a comprehensive blueprint for the development of Deaf and hearing impaired educational services. An implementation group will now be established to consider and implement the recommendations of this report. The...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 83 and 84 together. Under Circular 70/2011 teachers who have been engaged in a public sector teaching post on or before 4 December 2011 are eligible to retain the allowances they were entitled to be in receipt of on that date. Existing teachers will not be paid any additional allowance where they acquire any further qualification on or after 5 December 2011....

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Under Circular 70/2011 teachers who have been engaged in a public sector teaching post on or before 4 December 2011 are eligible to retain the allowances they were entitled to be in receipt of on that date. Existing teachers will not be paid any additional allowance where they acquire any further qualification on or after 5 December 2011. The position of existing teachers who, on 5 December...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy is not compiled in the format sought. Officials in the Pension Unit of my Department are currently fully occupied addressing the pension benefit entitlements for those who are retiring at this time. The number of teachers in Primary Secondary, Community and Comprehensive schools who have applied to retire in the period 1 January to 29 February 2012 is...

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: There are currently 37 teachers carrying out their probationary period in Limerick City and 54 in Limerick County which means there are 91 in total carrying out their probationary period in Limerick. There are 2,132 teachers carrying out their probationary period nationally and of these 16 are carrying out their probationary period through the national internship programmes - FÁS Work...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Work on the drafting of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill is at an advanced stage and I hope to be in a position to publish the Bill in the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to teachers in Primary, Secondary, Community and Comprehensive Schools is being compiled and will be forwarded directly to him. My Department does not pay allowances to other staff in these schools. My Department does not hold information on payments other than basic salary to employees of vocational education committees (VECs). Each VEC is...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (9 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The following have been established since my appointment as Minister for Education and Skills: (1) Advisory Group to convene the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector. In addition to convening the Forum, the Advisory Group was required to receive and distil the various views and perspectives of participants and thereafter to provide the Minister with policy advice having...

Written Answers — Ministerial Correspondence: Ministerial Correspondence (14 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department is in receipt of separate correspondence from the company referred to by the Deputy. My officials have made contact with the company and will respond to the company in due course.

Written Answers — European Globalisation Fund: European Globalisation Fund (14 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 188 and 200 together. On foot of an application made by the Irish authorities in October 2009 in support of workers made redundant in 2009 at the S R Technics aircraft maintenance facility at Dublin Airport, EU funding of €7.45m was subsequently received from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in December 2010. Including required matching...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (14 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am informed that the FÁS Training Centre located in Baldoyle has responsibility for the operation and administration of contracted training in North Dublin which includes the Balbriggan area. In 2011, FÁS Baldoyle Training Centre conducted a performance review of its training portfolio and provision provided over the previous two years. This review in conjunction with the FÁS training...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (14 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190, 239 and 243 together. All schools must continue to provide guidance to their pupils. However, from September 2012 guidance provision will be managed by schools from within their standard staffing allocation. As things currently stand and before any changes are made, 42% of second level schools do not presently have a full-time guidance counsellor....

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The purpose of the Remote Area Boarding Grant is to give pupils who are educationally disadvantaged because of their remoteness from schools an opportunity to attend school on the same basis as other pupils not so disadvantaged. A list of boarding schools providing free second-level education is available on my Department's website.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (14 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Information on rented prefabricated accommodation is recorded by my Department on a county by county basis. Attached is a list of schools where prefab accommodation is currently being rented in Dublin City and County. My Department does not hold information on the numbers of pupils in individual schools who currently occupy temporary accommodation; this depends on the organisation of class...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 193 and 194 together. The information sought by the Deputy from 2008 to 2012 is set out in the table. Shared-full-time teaching posts and travel between schools is a long standing feature of the primary system. The cost of this travel in 2011 was just over €1.3m. My Department does not anticipate any significant increase in these costs in 2012. The...