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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: This data is held by the relevant Education and Training Boards following their establishment in 2013. I have asked the individual Education and Training Boards referred to by the Deputy to contact him directly with the relevant information. I have also asked SOLAS to contact the Deputy directly with historical data they would hold for the areas in question prior to the establishment of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Government recently committed, as part of the budget announcements made last year, to provide for 365 new Special Needs Assistant (SNA) posts to support children with special educational needs in schools in 2015, bringing the total number of SNAs available for allocation in 2015 to 11,330 posts. This is the highest level of SNA allocation that we have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions. The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of funding is then a matter for the individual institution. My Department, or the HEA, does not provide funding to the Union of Students in Ireland and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Primary Online Database (POD) may only be accessed through password controlled accounts. Only the school that the pupil attends and a small number of Department staff will have access to an account. No agency or other Government Department will have access to the Primary Online Database.The Department proposes in the future to share some of the personal data stored on POD with other State...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Cases (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As announced on 16th December last, the Government approved proposals to offer out of court settlements to those bringing cases of school sexual abuse against the State where the cases come within the terms of the European Court of Human Rights decision and meet certain other criteria. The State Claims Agency will be engaging with the solicitors involved. I can confirm that in cases where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) is responsible for processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports. SENOs also make recommendations to my Department where assistive technology is required. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school referred to by the Deputy is part of a new education campus comprising three new school buildings which has been devolved to Cork Education & Training Board for delivery. The project is at an advanced stage of architectural planning and subject to the planning process it is envisaged that construction of all three schools will commence in 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Officials from my Department have been working very closely with officials from Cork County Council to secure a site for the school referred to by the Deputy. I can confirm that a suitable site has been identified and the conveyancing process in relation to its acquisition is underway. In tandem with completion of the conveyancing process, the project is being progressed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Tyndall job evaluation exercise has been completed and the consultant's report was referred to the UCC Tyndall Job Evaluation Oversight Committee on the 22nd December for their consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Institutes of Technology are autonomous institutions within the meaning of the Institutes of Technology Act 2006. The management of their academic affairs, including issues surrounding the collection of examination fees and relevant action where there are outstanding debts, are matters for the Governing Authority of each institution. Neither I nor my Department have any involvement in such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Welfare Board Remit (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Education Welfare Act 2000 requires all schools to have in place a Code of Behaviour. The Act requires that a school Code of Behaviour shall, inter alia, specify the standards of behaviour that shall be observed by each student attending the school, the measures that may be taken when a student fails or refuses to observe those standards, the procedures to be followed before a student may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In the context of the necessary but difficult expenditure reduction measures announced in Budget 2012, new students entering postgraduate courses from the 2012/13 academic year onwards are not entitled to maintenance payments under the Student Grant Scheme. However, those who do meet the qualifying conditions for the special rate of grant under the Student Grant Scheme are eligible to have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that it is envisaged that the review of the configuration and development of post-primary provision for Limerick City and part of its environs which is currently being finalised will be made available in the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that children with special educational needs are eligible for school transport if they are attending the nearest recognised: mainstream school, special class, special school or a unit, that is or can be resourced, to meet their special educational needs under Department of Education and Skills' criteria. I understand that the child in question is availing of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Department has developed an individualised electronic database of primary school pupils (POD – the Primary Online Database). The primary purpose of POD will be to monitor the educational progress of primary pupils (in DES aided schools), throughout the primary system and onwards to post primary level and to help them develop their full educational potential. Once up and running...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is iad na príomhghráid sa Roinn atá gafa le seirbhísí a sheachadadh ar phobal na Gaeilge ná na gráid a bhaineann le cigireacht na scoileanna agus le soláthar na seirbhísí síceolaíochta oideachais a chuireann An tSeirbhís Náisiúnta Síceolaíochta Oideachais ar fáil do scoileanna i gceantair Ghaeltachta...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The following tabular statement contains details of expenditure on photography at the Department in the years requested by the Deputy. In addition to this a sum of approximately €7,400 was paid in July 2014 by my Department for the restoration, framing and installation of photographs in order to establish a photo gallery of Ministers and Secretaries General who have served in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Relations Contracts Data (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the response to questions 501 and 512 in December 2014. The information supplied at that time has not changed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) published its Report on a Proposed New Model for Allocating Teachers for Students with Special Educational Needs on 18th June 2014. The report recommends that a new allocation model should be developed, based on a school's educational profile, while providing a baseline allocation to every mainstream school to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The table that follows this reply outlines the information requested by the Deputy in respect of major building projects currently on site which have been awarded to the contractor in question by my Department or by bodies acting on behalf of my Department. Funding is also provided on a devolved basis to school management authorities under my Department's additional accommodation scheme for...