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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 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 in the coming years. This process includes an examination of the Dublin 9 area. If it is determined that a new school is needed for this area, an open and objective patronage determination process will follow and existing and prospective...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (11 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school in question applied to my Department for major capital funding for the replacement of prefabricated accommodation with a permanent structure and for the provision of a General Purpose Room. My Department provided a total of €479,000 to the school to replace the prefabs under the 2012 Prefab Replacement Scheme and these works are now complete. In view...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (11 Dec 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: School Enrolments (11 Dec 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: State Examinations Oversight (11 Dec 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: School Curriculum (11 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Revised Leaving Certificate syllabi were submitted by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment in relation to the four Leaving Certificate technology subjects in 2004. Two of these subjects, Technology and Design and Graphic Communications were introduced in September 2007. The remaining two subjects, Leaving Certificate Engineering Technology and Architectural Technology are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (16 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: State Examinations Commission (16 Dec 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: Education and Training Provision (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy is available from the Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board and from Skillnets. I have asked the Education and Training Board and Skillnets to contact the Deputy directly with the information requested.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Property Transfers (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, the religious congregation that owns existing school properties in Ennistymon has offered to transfer the properties concerned to the State as part of its offer made in response to the publication of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (the Ryan Report). The land in question, which the Government has agreed to accept, together with the lands...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Where significant grant aid is provided by the Department for the development of school premises on property not owned by the State, it is the policy of this Department that the investment is secured by way of a legal agreement. Details in relation to these leases are generally held on individual property files. Therefore it is not possible to specify the number of such leases or the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Dec 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: Student Grant Scheme Applications (16 Dec 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: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school to which the Deputy refers to is to be delivered as part of the Schools Bundle 4 Public Private Partnership project. This bundle comprises four post primary schools. My Department expects Financial Close on the project to be finalised shortly. The PPP Company is expected to commence construction very soon afterwards. The school is on schedule for delivery early in 2016 in that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 49 of the Education and Training Boards Act, 2013, confers a power of borrowing on an Education and Training Board (ETB), subject to the submission of a proposal to the Board, and if approved in principle by the Board, to the Minister for Education and Skills for consent. My Department has issued Circular 0066/2014 to ETB, concerning the procedures to be followed where an ETB wishes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The national student grant awarding body, SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland), opened its online application system for the 2014/2015 academic year on 8 May, 2014 with the closing date further extended to 06 November 2014 It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that their application for a student grant is submitted before the deadline. Late applications may be accepted...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Education Review (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Special Education Support Service (SESS) develops and delivers a wide range of professional development supports for teachers working with students with special educational needs in mainstream primary and post-primary schools, special schools and special classes. Support, which may be informational, advisory or facilitative, is provided in response to identified continuing professional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has not made any application to my Department seeking capital funding for the purpose of developing a play space at the school. Any application received will be considered in the context of the funding available and having regard to other competing demands on the Department's capital budget. In recent weeks I announced that the Minor...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 561 and 562 together. My Department has a Management Advisory Committee (MAC) and a Ministerial MAC (MINMAC). The MAC, which meets on a weekly basis, is chaired by the Secretary General and is attended by the Department's Deputy Secretary, Assistant Secretaries, Chief Inspector and Director. Senior officials also attend as required. I am the chair of all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Circular letter 12/03 issued by my Department outlines the temporary exchange scheme for primary teachers. The teacher exchange scheme provides a facility for primary teachers to voluntarily exchange with a teacher in another school. The minimum period for which an exchange may occur is one year and the maximum is five years. The exchange scheme was agreed under the auspices of the...