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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 461 and 481 together. The capital funding issued to schools in the primary and post-primary sectors in County Galway in the years 2011 to 2014 is as follows: PRIMARY 2011 - €12.6m 2012 - €8.5m 2013 - €12.8m 2014 - €13.7m POST-PRIMARY 2011 - €4.5m 2012 - €5.2m 2013 - €14m 2014 - €11.6m If...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Caranua is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012. Caranua provides regular updates on its website (www.caranua.ie) in regard to the number of applications received and related matters. I understand that by 31st December 2014, Caranua had made payments worth €8,935,624 to 1,062 persons who had applied to it. That...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Regulations (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department's Technical Guidance Documents – TGD-020 section 8, sets out the general principles of Universal Design in schools, which all design and construction professionals engaged on school building projects are obliged to follow. In addition all new school building projects are subject to compliance with the Building Regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Staff (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The total number of Permanent Whole Time Equivalent Core Staff in the Institutes of Technology Sector is 4,567.53 and total Whole Time Equivalent Contracts of Indefinite Duration is 1,594.82 The following table shows the breakdown of these figures by Institute. Institutes of Technology Core StaffPermanent and CID - December 2014 Institute Permanent CID Athlone IT 243.20 130.40 IT...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy, is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning. The schools Design Team is currently working on Stage 2b - Detailed Design, which involves obtaining planning permission, fire certificate and disability access certificate and the completion of tender documents. Final Grant of Planning was received in January...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major building project for the school in Roscommon referred to by the Deputy, is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning Stage 2b – Detailed Design which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire Cert and Disability Access Cert and the preparation of Tender Documents. All relevant statutory approvals have been obtained and the Design Team is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that none of the schools on the campus in question has raised this matter with my Department. I understand that the street lights referred to by the Deputy may be on the access road to the school campus. However, this road is outside the campus site boundary and is not under the ownership of my Department. The lights internal to the respective schools' site...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The supervision of pupils in classrooms is an integral part of a teacher's professional duties and contract of employment with his or her school. The teacher is expected to take all reasonable steps in relation to the care of those pupils to ensure their safety and welfare. That responsibility remains with the teacher when an inspector, or any other visitor, is in the classroom. The work...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In 2012 a public service-wide review of allowances was carried out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. As a result of the review, qualification allowances were abolished with effect from 1st February 2012. Department of Education and Skills Circular 0008/2013 outlines the effect of this decision on teachers. In Paragraph 12 of Circular 0008/2013 an exception is made in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Reform of the Junior Cycle is important and is a policy priority. The current dispute with the teacher unions will not be resolved on the picket line. It will be resolved through meaningful negotiation. Dr. Pauric Travers has contacted the teacher unions and myself to propose further talks this week. I welcome this initiative and my Department will engage in these talks in a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The delivery of a new 16 classroom school to facilitate this amalgamation has been devolved to the Office of Public Works and is at an early stage of architectural planning. A Stage 2a submission from the OPW is currently with my Department for review. Once the review is complete, subject to no issues arising, the project will progress to Stage 2b which includes applications for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can inform the Deputy that Kildare Wicklow ETB is in the process of advertising for modular turnkey accommodation to provide temporary accommodation for the school in question. The application for planning permission will be addressed as part of this process. The school is scheduled to open in temporary accommodation in September 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that architectural planning to provide a new replacement school in the area in question has commenced. My Department met with the school and its Design Team last November and is awaiting submission of an addendum report by the Board of Management to address several design issues. Upon satisfactory completion of this report and subject to no issues arising, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In 2012 a public service-wide review of allowances was carried out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. As a result of the review, qualification allowances were abolished with effect from 1st February 2012. Department of Education and Skills Circular 0008/2013 outlines the effect of this decision on teachers. In Paragraph 12 of Circular 0008/2013 an exception is made...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (27 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 education 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: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is aware of the circumstances of the school referred to by the Deputy. In this regard, my Department will continue to liaise with the school in the context of addressing their accommodation needs.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am currently leading a higher education reform programme. As part of the reform and modernisation of the system, Government policy is to consolidate the institute of technology sector to create institutes of scale and significance operating in regional clusters with other higher education institutions. This is in line with the system configuration approved by my predecessor and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The last Budget included an increase in spending on education for the first time in recent years, amounting to additional funding of €60m during 2015. As I have mentioned in response to previous parliamentary questions, that increase has provided funding for 1,700 additional teachers and SNAs to be recruited for our schools, as well as funding important reforms. However, it was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Advertisements in Schools (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school and is therefore responsible for making decisions as to the types of activities in which the school gets involved.The decision as to whether to participate in activities, enter competitions or partake in any promotions is one for each Board of Management to take. In making...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The delivery of a replacement 20-classroom school plus Special Needs Unit for the school referred to by the Deputy has been devolved to the school authority. Galway/Roscommon Education & Training Board has agreed to provide assistance to the school in progressing the project. In August 2014, approval was given by my Department to proceed with Phase 1 of this 2-phase project....