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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are 11,000 learning support/resource teacher posts, including those provided under the General Allocation model, in mainstream primary and post primary schools providing additional teaching support to pupils with special educational needs this year as well as 11,110 Special Needs Assistant (SNA) posts providing support for children with significant care needs. I recently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question has submitted a proposal to relocate the school to alternative permanent accommodation in the area concerned to meet it's long term requirements. My Department has been in contact with the school Patron seeking further information in respect of the proposal. When the further information concerned is received, the proposal will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Major School Building Project referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning. The Stage 2b Detailed Design Submission was recently approved by my Department. Due to competing demands on my Department's capital budget, imposed by the need to prioritise the limited funding available for the provision of additional school accommodation to meet increasing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Expenditure (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I assume the Deputy is referring to an outstanding balance in respect of an emergency works grant allocated to the school in question. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the outstanding balance in respect of this grant has recently been issued to the school management authority

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Parents' Council (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy for both National Parents Councils', primary and post-primary, is available in the attached tables. Table 1: National Parents Council (primary), Department of Education and Skills funding 2009 to 2014. Year Core Grant Outturn Training Grant Outturn Total 2014 €326,000 €197,465 €523,465 2013 €330,000 €136,682...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department provides funding to the Irish Second Level Student Union (ISSU) as follows: For the 2013/14 academic year a sum of €18,000 was allocated. This was paid in two instalments. For the 2014/15 academic year a sum of €40,000 has been sanctioned. One instalment has been allocated. In addition my Department allocated €10,335 to the ISSU to fund a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 28 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2000 (as amended by section 34 of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Amendment Act 2005) prohibits the disclosure of information provided to the Redress Board and Review Committee other than in specified circumstances. It also prohibits any person from publishing any information concerning an application or an award made under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently analysing the latest demographic data on a nationwide basis to determine where additional school accommodation might be needed from 2015 onwards. This process includes an examination of the Pelletstown area. When this exercise has been completed arrangements will be made to make additional accommodation available where it is needed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Completion Programme (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: In 2011, under the National Education Welfare Board (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 2011 responsibility for the School Completion Programme (SCP) transferred to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. The full budget allocation for SCP, in 2011, was €30.3m. This funding transferred to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in 2011....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Completion Programme (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: In 2011, under the National Education Welfare Board (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 2011 responsibility for the School Completion Programme (SCP) transferred to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. Since January 2014 the School Completion Programme has been administered by TUSLA on behalf of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that all schools have been allocated additional teaching resources to cater for children with high incidence special educational needs, including Specific Learning Disability (SLD), of which dyslexia is one such Specific Learning Disability. All mainstream Primary schools have been allocated additional teaching resources under the General Allocation Model (GAM) to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 394 and 401 together. The next step in the architectural planning process for the school building project referred to by the Deputy is to appoint a full design team to complete the design of the extension and refurbishment works required. The tender process to appoint the design team will commence early in the new year. The project will provide for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Teacher allocations are approved annually in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. Reforms introduced in the 2012/13 school year created a single simplified allocation process for both learning and language support. At primary level, learning/language support hours are allocated on the basis of mainstream classroom teaching posts in the school. At...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Statistic's Section of my Department's website i.e. www.education/statistics.ie contains extensive data at individual school level in County order. The most recent published information relates to the 2013/2014 school year. The National School Annual Census is generally returned by schools to the Department by end October. Data relating to the 2014/15 school year will be published...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing arrangements also includes an appeals mechanism for schools to submit an appeal under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The total estimated savings arising from the one day of industrial action by teachers in voluntary secondary, community/comprehensive and ETB schools is 4.8 million euros. This includes employers PRSI and substitution costs.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Data (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are no plans to change staff numbers in the State Examinations Commission. I have put a revised proposal on the table which is different from that originally proposed. This has not been accepted by the teacher unions. What is clear is that reform will be introduced gradually over a period of time and will only be fully implemented in September 2019 (for terminal examination in June...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Data (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I understand from data released by the HEA that women represent 43% of academic staff in the universities and institutes of technology. 21% of professors and associate professors in Irish universities are female, with the national average at 19%. This is not a problem that is unique to Ireland. The European Commission's 2012 report, Gender in Research and Innovation, showed that, across the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Marketing English in Ireland (MEI) is an association of 54 recognised English-language schools in Ireland. All MEI schools have ACELS (Accreditation and Co-ordination of English Language Services) recognition. On the basis of MEI's involvement with the Task Force on Students Affected by the Closure of Private Colleges, MEI schools have been assisting genuine displaced students in completing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools Closures (9 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: MEI schools have agreed to provide course places to genuine displaced students at a fee of €60 per week. This fee, which was calculated on a cost provision basis, represents a significant discount of 70% on the standard fees for an MEI school in acknowledgement that a fee has already been paid to the closed college. The other variable is the number of weeks outstanding for each...