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Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has not provided two or more phone lines to any member of staff at their homes.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: A sum of €1,180.34 was paid to the Training Officer in 2006 in respect of travel and subsistence. A total of 3,588 training days were organised in the 2006 calendar year. I understand the decentralisation of the Civil Service Training & Development Centre to Tullamore has not had any negative impact in relation to the Training Officer at my Department.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy has not specified a period in the question tabled I assume he is referring to the 2006 financial year. In 2006 four officials at my Department attended pre-retirement courses administered by the Centre for Management & Organisation Development (C.M.O.D.). The total amount of travel and subsistence expenses amounted to €626 prior to July 2006. One person has attended the course...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (3 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: To date 2 members of staff who transferred into my Department under the CAF scheme have transferred to a second section within my Department within 6 months of the original transfer. In one case, this happened because a combination of circumstances made it possible to offer the officer a move to their first preference location under the CAF in advance of the relocation of the section to...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Funding was allocated to the Life Centre, Pearse Square in December 2006 through the Fund for the Development of Targeted Educational Responses to Certain Children at Risk (CAR Fund) to provide a programme for young people between the ages of 12 and 16 who are out of the mainstream school system. The objective of the Fund is to develop preventative and supportive programmes, which are...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The mainstream staffing of a primary school is determined by reference to the enrolment of the school on 30th September of the previous school year. The actual number of mainstream posts sanctioned is determined by reference to a staffing schedule which is issued to all primary schools each year. Data submitted to my Department by the Board of Management of the school referred to by the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The need for a replacement school on a greenfield site for Blennerville National School has been determined by the Department. A suitable site has been acquired for that purpose. The building project required to deliver the new school will be progressed in the context of the multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme.

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information sought by the Deputy is being compiled by officials in my Department and will be forwarded to her as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Higher Education & Training Awards Council (HETAC) is to decentralise to Edenderry. The overall number of posts involved is in the region of 32. HETAC has produced an implementation report for the Decentralisation Implementation Group (DIG) and recruitment takes place on the basis that the body will decentralise. I understand that OPW has acquired a site for the proposed decentralisation...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware of my commitment to ensuring that all children, icluding those with autism, receive an education appropriate to their needs, preferably through the primary and post primary school network. My Department's preferred approach to the provision of appropriate education for children with autism, is through the primary and post primary school network, whether through...

Written Answers — Legal Costs: Legal Costs (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy should be advised that the full judgment in the matter referred to has not actually been delivered yet. Mr. Justice Peart has already indicated what will be contained in part of his judgement and that he intends to deliver a full written judgment on the 27th April 2007. In circumstances where the full judgment is not yet delivered it would be inappropriate for me to comment on any...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I can confirm that the Department is in receipt of an application for major capital funding from the management authority of the school to which the Deputy refers. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale works and was assigned a band 2 rating. Progress on the project is being considered in the context of the multi annual...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy is given in the following table. In appointing persons to State boards, State bodies or other like entities I will follow the guidelines set out in the Cabinet Handbook regarding eligibility, transparency and gender balance. DES Appointments to State Boards 29 March 2007 to 4 July 2007 Board No. of Appointments Notes National council for Curriculum...

Written Answers — School Closures: School Closures (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 245 to 248, inclusive, 250 and 251 together. A decision was taken by the Trustees of the school to which the Deputy refers that it will close in June 2007. This decision was taken because, in line with demographic changes in the area, the school has experienced a steady decline in enrolments in recent years. Current enrolments in feeder primary schools...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: In accordance with the terms of Towards 2016, my Department is actively engaged with the education partners to agree new arrangements in relation to the redeployment of teachers. The new arrangements will provide for redeployment of all teachers within an agreed distance on terms to be agreed. When the Department sought to include this matter in Towards 2016 it was particularly mindful of...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Under DEIS, (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), the new Action Plan for Educational Inclusion, which is currently being implemented by my Department, 80 additional posts have been allocated in order to extend Home School Community Liaison services to all 338 urban/town primary and 203 second level schools participating in DEIS that do not currently have a HSCL service, in...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I can confirm for the Deputy that there are currently four staff from NEPS accommodated in the offices in Friars Mill Road, Mullingar. Two staff from the National Council for Special Education are also accommodated within these offices but currently none from the National Education Welfare Board. There are no plans at present to accommodate NEPS staff in the new decentralised Departmental...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The mainstream staffing of a primary school is determined by reference to the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year. The actual number of mainstream posts sanctioned is determined by reference to a staffing schedule which is issued to all primary schools each year. Data submitted to my Department by the Board of Management of the school referred to by the Deputy,...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy applied and was approved for funding under the devolved Permanent Accommodation Scheme for 2007. The Permanent Accommodation Scheme (PAS) was originally introduced in 2003 on a pilot basis and due to the positive feedback from schools was extended to cover more schools in subsequent years. The Scheme is not structured on the basis that the Department...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 257 to 265, inclusive, together. Enrolment in individual schools is the responsibility of the managerial authority of those schools and the Department does not seek to intervene in decisions made by schools in such matters. The Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking places. This may...