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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: Schemes were initiated in 1978 and 1979 for the employment of clerical officers and caretakers in schools.  The schemes were withdrawn completely in 2008.  These schemes have been superseded by the capitation grant schemes.  The current grant scheme was agreed in the context of the Programme for Economic and Social Progress, published in 1991.  The majority of primary and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Recruitment (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: I can confirm that neither the Minister of State with special responsibility for Higher Education at my Department, Mary Mitchell O'Connor T.D., nor her officials, have canvassed the President of a higher education institution on behalf of a job applicant. My Department respects the autonomy of the institutions with regard to their day to day operations, including the filling of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions Governance (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: A report setting out a number of alleged shortfalls in governance and oversight in the Institute referred to by the Deputy was submitted to the Department in December 2018. Issues such as those raised in the report are, in the first instance, subject to assessment and examination by the Department, working closely with the Higher Education Authority (HEA). In that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: The building project for the school in question is included in my Department’s Construction Programme which is being delivered under the National Development Plan. This project is one of the school building projects on my Department’s ADAPT 2 (Accelerated Delivery of Architectural Planning & Tendering) Programme. My Department has completed the process of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department received an application for capital funding from the school referred to by the Deputy in 2017 for the provision of four SET rooms.  The application was unsuccessful at that time as it was deemed that the school had sufficient accommodation. My Department will now review the school's long term accommodation requirements and will be in contact with the school authority shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fire Safety (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 199 and 200 together. My Department has recently approved funding for a Fire Safety Assessment to be carried out at the school to which the Deputy refers. My Department will consider the outcome of this assessment as soon as it is received.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: The Deputy will be aware that a building project for the school to which he refers is included in my Department's Capital Programme to be delivered as part of the National Development Plan. The school authority has recently advised my Department that the legal elements associated with the site portfolio have now been executed and are ready for lodgement with the Property...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: The building project referred to by the deputy is included in my Department’s Construction Programme which is being delivered under the National Development Plan. The project is currently working through the architectural planning process at Stage 2a (Developed Design) where the preferred option design is developed to a stage where the project is fully cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: A building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department's Construction Programme which is being delivered under the National Development Plan. The project is currently out to tender, with tenders due back in mid December. Once the tenders are returned the Design Team will prepare and submit a tender report to my Department for assessment. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: The school referred to by the Deputy has been approved funding for a project, under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme 2019, for one special education teaching room.  A separate project, approved under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme, to extend the GP room and allow for roof repairs has been incorporated into this project.  The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: The major building project for the school referred to by the deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning, Stage 2b (Detailed Design).  The Stage 2(b) submission has been reviewed by my Department and comments have issued to the school and its Design Team. At the end of September the project was authorised to commence the pre-qualification of contractors’...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: DES Circulars 0007/2019 for primary schools and 0008/2019 for post primary schools provide details of how the allocations of Special Education Teachers have been updated for schools from September 2019, based on updated profile data. All schools have now received revised allocations for September 2019.  Under the allocation model, schools have been provided with a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department and I have received correspondence in relation to the Retention of Records Bill from a number of former residents and it is clear that there are conflicting views as to how to procced in regard to the records. I am aware that some former residents have called for the current legislation to be implemented, i.e., that the bulk of the records would be disposed of, while other have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: I wish to advise the Deputy that the grant awarding authority has advised my officials that they have no record of an application from the student in question for the 2019/20 academic year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: The Deputy will be aware that a demonstration project to provide in-school and pre-school therapy services was introduced for the 2018/19 school year and has been continuing as part of a wider pilot of a new School Inclusion Model for children with special educational and additional care needs over the course of the 2019/20 school year. The demonstration project has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 211 and 212 together. On 27thMarch I announced the trialling of the School Inclusion Model, a new model of support for students with special educational and additional care needs, which is being piloted in 75 schools in the Kildare/Wicklow/South Dublin region. The pilot commenced at the start of the 2019/20 school year. The School Inclusion Model aims to build...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: This building project referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department’s Construction Programme which is being delivered under the National Development Plan.   The major building project is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning Stage 2b – Detailed Design, which includes securing Planning Permission, Fire Certificate and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: Under the Assistive Technology scheme, as set out in my Department’s Circular 0010/2013, funding is provided to schools towards the cost of computers and specialist equipment, which are required for educational purposes. Equipment is provided under this scheme for children with more complex disabilities who, in order to access the school curriculum, require essential specialist...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Functions (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: A sub-committee, under the National Strategy for Women and Girls (NWSG) Committee, on period poverty has been established and is chaired by a Department of Health official.  My Department is participating on the sub-committee. The  work of the sub-committee involves the examination of available evidence to establish the prevalence of period poverty in Ireland,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department is in receipt of an application, for capital funding, for the provision of additional school accommodation from the school referred to by the Deputy.  The assessment process is nearing completion and a decision will issue to the school authority shortly.