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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy is among eight schools constituting the third bundle of school projects that are earmarked for delivery as part of the Department's overall Schools Public Private Partnership programme of works. Unfortunately, unanticipated difficulties associated with the current fiscal situation have led to delays in achieving financial close. As a consequence, it has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning. My Department recently authorised the project to proceed to Stage 2(b) which includes planning permission, Fire Cert, Disability Access Cert (DAC) and the preparation of tender documents. To ensure that every child has access to a school place, the delivery of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Circular 31/2011 details a cascade of measures for recruitment of teachers, prioritising unemployed registered teachers over retired registered teachers and registered teachers over unregistered persons. Each principal must report to his or her board of management on a regular basis on the fact that a list of unemployed registered teachers is being maintained, and the circumstances in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Numbers (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand the Deputy has clarified that her question is exclusively in relation to career breaks of one year duration or more. It is open to an official of my Department to submit an application for a career break in order to rear a child, other domestic purposes (eg care of a sick relative), educational courses, travel abroad or to establish their own business in accordance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Redundancy Payments (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: P45s are currently being processed for all Special Needs Assistants whose posts ceased on 31st August 2012. The person referred to by the Deputy will receive her P45 this week (i.e. the week commencing Monday 24th September). A redundancy application in respect of the person referred to by the Deputy has been received by my Department and is currently being processed. It is expected that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought is being compiled and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: In the document, Towards a Future Higher Education Landscape, published by the HEA in February last, a clear four stage process and criteria was laid out for institutes of technology who wish to apply for designation as a technological university. Having regard to the process that has been put in place to assess proposals for designation as technological universities I do not propose to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy may be aware that an Anti-Bullying Forum was held on Thursday 17th May bringing together a range of experts, support groups and representatives of the schools sector including parents and students. I was very pleased to open this important Forum and to provide an opportunity to explore with all the relevant stakeholders how best to tackle bullying in schools and to consider what...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes Issues (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The allocation of the Student Assistance Fund to approved third level institutions is made by the Higher Education Authority, generally in two instalments. Allocations are based on a combination of Equal Access data and total full-time enrolments in the previous academic year (rather than inclusively on full-time enrolment data as in previous years). All registered full-time undergraduate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is currently considering the position relating to the accommodation needs of the school to which he refers and my officials will be in further contact with the school authority as soon as this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (25 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Each main redeployment panel is created for permanent and CID holding teachers in order to ensure that vacancies in permanent and fixed-term posts are offered in the first instance to these teachers. A secondary and discrete subsidiary of each main redeployment panel, the subsidiary main panel, is created for eligible teachers in fixed term, substitute and part-time posts who meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (26 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy may be aware that an Anti-Bullying Forum was held on Thursday 17th May bringing together a range of experts, support groups and representatives of the schools sector including parents and students.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (26 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: On 19 June last, my Department published Circular 24/2012 which detailed the categorisation of the new Education and Training Boards (ETBs), once established, for the purposes of the pay scales applicable to Chief Executive Officers of these Boards. The categorisation of each ETB, including the Board encompassing County Tipperary, is based on a proposal set out by the Labour Relations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Reform (26 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Disability Access Route (D.A.R.E) to education is a college and university admissions scheme which offers places on a reduced points basis to school leavers with disabilities. The scheme is operated by a number of higher education institutions and not by my Department. Admissions to the institutions under this programme are regulated by the institutions themselves. Further details are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Responsibilities (26 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: There is one Delegation of Functions Order currently in force in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Reform (26 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The entry requirements for third level education courses are determined by individual higher education institutions and the processing of applications is administered by the CAO on their behalf. My Department does not have any role in relation to the operation of the CAO or the timing of offers of places on courses.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Closed Circuit Television Systems (26 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 70 to 72, inclusive, together.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (26 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: In relation to the use of CCTV, all use of CCTV by schools must be undertaken in compliance with the requirements of the Data Protection Acts which require, inter alia, that its use must be proportionate and for a specific purpose. Extensive guidance in this regard is available from the office of the Data Protection Commissioner or on their website www.dataprotection.ie. Under the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (26 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy may be aware that an Anti-Bullying Forum was held on Thursday 17th May bringing together a range of experts, support groups and representatives of the schools sector including parents and students. I was very pleased to open this important Forum and to provide an opportunity to explore with all the relevant stakeholders how best to tackle bullying in schools and to consider what...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (26 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The person referred to by the Deputy will receive her superannuation payments on 27th September 2012.