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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: There has been extra.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The analysis would be available, and is being done. However, we get a five-year capital envelope. That is the way the accounting system works and we must operate with that as it stands. I wish to signal the following. We must deal with demographics in terms of new schools. However, a number of existing schools are in fairly bad condition and we need to look at them in the next programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is a good idea. When a couple of issues were raised today I suggested a more detailed discussion would be very useful for all of us. I welcome the Deputy's suggestion and I shall speak to the Chairman and clerk to the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The approach to teaching and learning in schools is that teachers use differentiation to address different rates of learning to reflect the educational needs and in particular the learning skills and abilities of their pupils. My Department supports the holistic development of the young person and, other than in the case of Irish (which is under review), exempting pupils from a key...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Property Purchases (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will note that the primary school and Pobalscoil Rosmini post-primary school buildings are not included in the land which is on the market. In addition I wish to advise the Deputy that officials from my Department have sought and have been provided with assurances from the Rosminians (Institute of Charity) in relation to the future use of the campus and securing the interests of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has been in contact with the school referred to by the Deputy and has clarified the staffing arrangements for the 2014/15 school year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The delivery of a new school building for Coláiste Mhuire, Buttevant, Co. Cork has been devolved to Cork Education and Training Board. The project went to construction on 21st July 2014. As part of the conditions of planning, Cork County Council requested an Archaeologist to be on site during the initial stage of construction. An archaeological dig resulted in findings related to a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware my Department appointed Contractors Administration Services (CAS), to conduct random audits on school building projects. CAS have been requested to carry out a full monitoring service for the duration of the contract at the school in question. Should irregularities be uncovered in terms of non-compliance with relevant employment law, enforcement and prosecution falls...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Suspension (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Circular Letter 0062/2013 which was published as the Minor Works Grant for the school year 2013/2014 issued last November states "the grant will only be paid in future years as funding permits". The focus under the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme 2012-2016 is on meeting the demand for additional school places. Consequently, there is no funding provided at this time in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that the establishment of a network of autism-specific special classes in schools across the country to cater for children with autism has been a key educational priority in recent years. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: A key recommendation of the Report and Recommendations on a Traveller Education Strategy is the phasing out of segregated education provision for travellers and, while significant progress has been made across the country generally, traveller-only provision continues in two schools in the Dublin area. My Department's Traveller Consultative Forum whose membership includes representatives of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department provides capitation funding to all recognised primary schools. The amount of grant paid to an individual primary school for capitation and ancillary services is determined by the school's enrolment, subject to a minimum grant for both capitation and ancillary services in respect of schools with enrolments up to 60, and a maximum ancillary services grant in the case of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can inform the Deputy that my Department is aware of the situation and circumstances pertaining in the school detailed in his question and can inform him that a NEPS psychologist is this week completing assessment work on the pupils concerned for submission to the school and onwards to the NCSE where they will be given the appropriate consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Training Programmes Data (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: This information requested by the Deputy is held by SOLAS and I have asked them to contact the Deputy directly with this information.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Training Programmes Data (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy is held by SOLAS and I have asked them to contact the Deputy directly with this information.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Statistics (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 236 and 237 together. The information in the following table is taken from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Retention reports by the Department of Education and Skills, on school retention in Ireland. It is based on a detailed analysis of the records held in the Department's Post-Primary Pupils Database (PPPDB) for the cohort of entrants to the first year of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Participation (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 238 and 239 together. My Department's data indicate that, on average, 50% of students who finish second level education progress directly on to higher education in the year they complete school. In addition, a further 28% of school leavers progress directly on to a PLC or other further/second level course. Generally speaking, over 64% of any final year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Administration (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The minutes of the meetings of Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board requested by the Deputy are not provided to my Department. Consequently, I am not in a position to provide them to the Deputy. Education and Training Boards (ETBs) are required in accordance with paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 of the Education and Training Boards Act, 2013, to ensure that minutes of each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Administration (25 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 47 of the Education and Training Boards Act 2013 (the Act) requires that, following the receipt of provisional expenditure limits from the Minister, the chief executive of an ETB will prepare and submit to the board a service plan setting out the services that the board proposes to provide, and an estimate of income and expenditure of the board during the financial year commencing on...