Results 10,081-10,100 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: St Francis of Assisi NS was deemed to not have a sufficient concentration of disadvantage among its pupils to warrant its inclusion in DEIS. Assessment of schools for inclusion in DEIS was undertaken as an independent process on behalf of the Department by the Educational Research Centre. My key priority at present is to continue to target resources in schools with the most concentrated...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission for the proposed Memorial, which was to be integrated with the Garden of Remembrance, in November 2013. Subsequently, the Memorial Committee advised that the Journey of Light proposal was not transferable to another site as it is inextricably linked with the Garden of Remembrance. Neither did it consider that the Board's decision should be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 provides that those former residents who received awards from the Residential Institutions Redress Board or equivalent Court awards or settlements are eligible to apply to Caranua. This approach was taken having regard to the maximum funds available of €110 million and a potential pool of some 15,000 applicants. As the Deputy may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Institutions Redress Board has completed almost all of the applications received and is finalising the remaining legal costs associated with applications. Apart from this, there are a number of applications on appeal to the Review Committee and there are a number of judicial reviews before the High and Supreme Courts. There is also the issue of the retention of the Board's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 9 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 addresses a range of scenarios where a survivor dies. It provides for applications to be brought by the spouse or children of survivors who would have qualified as applicants and who died after 11th May 1999. It also provides that where an applicant dies after making an application but before the Board has made a determination, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Regulations (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has produced a suite of technical guidance documents, which are available on my Department's website, www.education.ie, to assist design teams in best practice in the design and development of schools in green field site situations. These documents cover all aspects of the development of a building project for both internal and external works....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Payments (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Data (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has a designated Data Protection/Freedom of Information/Records Management Officer who is responsible for implementing data protection legislation in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. There are 3.25 (whole time equivalent) staff in this office. The DES has published a 'Data Protection Code of Practice' which outlines the steps taken when processing personal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Relationship and Sexuality Education is embedded within Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) at Junior Cycle level. Schools are also required to provide an Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) programme in Senior Cycle. The SPHE curriculum aims to provide a range of generic skills such as communicating, making decisions, knowing where to find reliable data, belonging and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (20 Nov 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 in the amount of €28m, states "the grant will only be paid in future years as funding permits". At this time there is no funding available within my Department's 2014 financial allocation for the payment of the 2014/2015 Minor Works Grant. On the announcement of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (25 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to oversee the use of the cash contributions of up to €110 million, pledged by the religious congregations, to support the needs of survivors of institutional child abuse. The processing of individual applications is a...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: It is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998. In this regard a Board of Management may find it necessary to restrict enrolment to children from a particular area or a particular age group or on the basis of some other criterion. The criteria to be applied by schools in such circumstances are a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (25 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's Planning and Building Unit has no record of receiving an application for funding from the school referred to by the Deputy for repair works. If the school in question considers that there are works of an emergency nature requiring attention it is open to the school authority to submit an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme. The main purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (25 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Extension Refurbishment Project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning - Stage 2b - Detailed Design. All statutory approvals have been obtained and the Stage 2b Detailed Design Submission is currently under review by my Department. Due to competing demands on the Department's capital budget imposed by the need to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (25 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am aware of an issue at the school site referred to by the Deputy and I would encourage all parties involved to use the appropriate industrial relations channels to resolve this current matter. As the Deputy is aware school building projects which are funded from public monies, including the school project in question, are required to use the forms of contract provided under the Capital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (25 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have an assessment carried out by a member of the panel of...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: 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: International Education (25 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: A number of reforms which I announced together with the Minister for Justice and Equality on 2nd September are currently being implemented to strengthen the regulation of international education in Ireland. The policy document Regulatory Reform of the International Education Sector and the Student Immigration Regime, which explains the rationale for these reforms, was published in September...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (25 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that my Department is aware of the Patron's proposal to amalgamate the schools referred to by the Deputy. As the Deputy will be aware, the decision making authority for any amalgamation belongs to the Patron of a school, subject to the approval of the Minister for Education and Skills. Amalgamation proposals must first involve consultation with all of the relevant...