Results 9,601-9,620 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The position in relation to the school to which the Deputy refers has not changed since I replied to the parliamentary questions on 27 March 2012. The number of mainstream classroom teachers allocated to primary schools is based on the enrolment of the previous 30th September. The number of such posts allocated from year to year changes due to a number of factors including increasing or...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The position in relation to the school to which the Deputy refers has not changed since I replied to the parliamentary questions on 27 March 2012. The number of mainstream classroom teachers allocated to primary schools is based on the enrolment of the previous 30th September. The number of such posts allocated from year to year changes due to a number of factors including increasing or...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The person is question applied for a statement of pension benefits. This request was received in the Pension Unit of my Department on 8 March 2012. The information sought was issued to the person in question on 29 March 2012, well within the timeframe outlined in my Department's Business Plan for the provision of such information.
- Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I am aware of the views expressed in the correspondence supplied. The cost of the response to residential institutional abuse was estimated to exceed â¬1.36 billion and it is likely that this estimate will be exceeded as the actual expenditure on the Redress Scheme and associated litigation was almost at the projected final provision of â¬1.1 billion at end 2011. The Government believes...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at an early stage of architectural planning. This project will be provided on the existing school site and was included on the 5 year capital investment programme which I announced on 12th March 2012, to proceed to tender and construction in 2014/2015.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: In June 2011, I announced the establishment of 40 new schools nationally within the next six years, comprising of twenty new primary schools and twenty new post-primary schools including a new post primary school for Claregalway which will be established from September 2013. My Department will be in communication with all those schools on the programme at the appropriate time in relation...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 293, 328 and 332 together. My Department has published Circular 0009/2012 to inform all post primary school management and staff of the staffing arrangements for post-primary schools for the 2012/13 school year, including in particular, the requirements to manage guidance from within the standard allocation. The circular is available on the Department...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The redundancy payment for the person referenced by the Deputy was issued on the 12th April 2012.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy may be aware, in June 2011, I announced the establishment of 20 new primary schools to cater for increased demographics across a number of locations up to 2017, including Kildare Town. I recently announced that the new primary school to commence operation in Kildare Town in 2012 will be under the patronage of Educate Together. I also announced that subject to confirmation of...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 296, 297 and 347 together. The Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011, which provides for the amalgamation, was introduced in Seanad Ãireann. The Bill passed Seanad Committee Stage on 29 March 2012. I intend that the Bill will be enacted in the current term and Qualifications and Quality Assurance Ireland (QQAAI) will be...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy 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, which now...
- Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The question of enrolment in individual schools is the responsibility of the managerial authority of those schools. It is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of schools that are not in a position to admit all pupils seeking entry to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act 1998. In this regard a board of management may deem it necessary to restrict...
- Written Answers — Student Support Schemes: Student Support Schemes (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Universities are autonomous institutions within the meaning of the Universities Act 1997 and my Department does not have any function in relation to their academic affairs, including the conduct of examinations and assessments, decisions concerning examination results or the processing of appeals. The university in question has a formal appeals procedure in place under its Examination...
- Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that my Department recently approved emergency funding for roof repairs at the school in question.
- Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 304, 306 and 307 together. The information sought by the Deputy is provided in the tables set out below. Circular 3/2012 which is available on my Department website provides that allowances are not payable to new beneficiaries; i.e. those who become eligible for receipt of the allowance in question on or after 1 February 2012. The only exceptions to this...
- Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 305, 310, 311 and 313 together. A teacher can hold a range of allowances. However, only one Degree allowance is payable at any one time, with the rate of the allowance being determined by the level of the Degree achieved. Where a particular allowance is regarded as a post-based allowance then the allowance is conditional on having the qualifications...
- Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 308, 309 and 312 together. The 35 year allowance is payable to teachers who have been on the maximum point of the common basic scale for a minimum period of ten years. The Children's Allowance is payable to teachers recruited before the 1st January 1980 who have an eligible child or children. An eligible child is defined as a child, stepchild or legally...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: There are 32,030 teaching posts at primary level and 27,870 teaching posts at post primary level.
- Written Answers — School Patronage: School Patronage (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: As outlined in the Parliamentary Question referred to above, in June of last year I announced that 20 new second level schools would be established across a number of locations up to 2017 to meet increasing demographics. These included new second level schools in both Dundalk and Drogheda, each to commence operation in 2014. Applications for patronage of the new second level schools to be...
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (18 Apr 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The responsibility for deciding on eligibility for a student grant is a matter for the relevant grant awarding authority, in this case County Wexford VEC. My Department understands that the student in question was awarded a grant on 3 April last.