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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the terms of the student grant scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students who meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those relating to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. The Deputy will appreciate that, in the absence of all of the relevant details that would be contained in an individual's application form and supporting documentation,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is currently considering an application for additional accommodation from the school to which he refers. A decision on the application will be conveyed to the school management as soon as this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm for the Deputy that my Department is currently assessing the schools' accommodation needs and expects to be in a position to share its proposals with both schools shortly. My officials have been in contact with the schools and they are aware of the current position.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The process of analysing demographic data at primary level has been completed. This resulted in the announcement last month that seven new primary schools are to be established in the next two years to meet demographic needs in different areas of the country. This announcement did not include a new school for the area to which the Deputy refers. Where the demographic exercise identified...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Reform (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Following discussions with my Department, with support and advice from the National Treasury Management Agency, a specific loan initiative was introduced by Bank of Ireland in 2012 to provide finance for fees and living costs for postgraduate students. While developed in conjunction with the Department of Education and Skills, it is a Bank of Ireland product and further information on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware of the challenge that we have in ensuring that our school system is in a position to cope with increasing pupil numbers and the need to ensure that every child will have access to a physical school place. To meet this challenge, almost €2 billion in funding is being invested by the Department under the current 5 Year capital plan, announced in 2012. Due to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The staffing arrangements for primary schools for the 2015/16 school year are set out in Department Circular 0005/2015 which is available on my Department's website at www.education.gov.ie. The circular sets out the improvements to the staffing schedule for the 2015/16 school year for small schools. These improvements are improved retention thresholds for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th classroom...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Following Government approval I have published the draft General Scheme for a Retention of Records Bill, 2015, and have referred it to the Joint Oireachtas Committee of Education and Social Protection for Pre-Legislative Scrutiny. The draft General Scheme proposals relate to the records of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Details on the total funding for higher education and the total number of students enrolled in higher education are set out in the tables. Year Student Numbers (full-time) Student Numbers (part-time) 2010/11 160,972 32,208 2011/12 162,786 33,512 2012/13 164,498 34,257 2013/14 168,986 35,147 2014/15 (provisional) 169,402 28,468 The above numbers include undergraduate and postgraduate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Guarantee (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The European Union's Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) provides co-funding to projects in the Member States that are designed to implement the EU Youth Guarantee and other projects designed to get unemployed young people back to work, education or training. The YEI is being delivered in Ireland through the European Social Fund (ESF) Programme for Education, Inclusion and Learning 2014-2020...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Employment Initiative (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The European Union's Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) provides co-funding to projects in the Member States that are designed to implement the EU Youth Guarantee and other projects designed to get unemployed young people back to work, education or training. The YEI is being delivered in Ireland through the European Social Fund (ESF) Programme for Education, Inclusion and Learning 2014-2020...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school to which the Deputy refers is a recognised primary school under the Patronage of the Archbishop of Dublin. Existing equality legislation, which outlaws discrimination in relation to the admission of a student, makes provision for exemptions to apply in the case of single sex schools and in the case of schools where the objective is to provide education in an environment that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Good communication between the leadership of any institute of technology entering into a merger and the staff and students of that higher education institution is extremely important so that a shared vision and understanding of the new institution can be developed. That message has been conveyed by the HEA and by my Department from the outset and I understand that consultation has taken...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: This Government is committed to ensuring that all children with Special Educational Needs, including those with autism, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. Such placements facilitate access to individualised education programmes which may draw from a range of appropriate educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school to which the Deputy refers is one of nine community national schools that have been established in recent years. Pending the transfer of patronage of the community national schools to the relevant Education and Training Boards, I as Minister for Education and Skills am acting as patron of these schools. Under the provisions of the Education Act 1998, a Patron may appoint a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In February, 2012 the school referred to by the Deputy was approved devolved funding under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme for the provision of mainstream classrooms. The school authorities have sought additional funding for a new waste water treatment system on the basis that the existing septic tank at the school is non-compliant with Environmental Protection Agency...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The number of pupils in classes over 30 for the years requested is available by individual primary school on the Department's website at the following link . This list includes the county council of the school. Due to the moveable nature of classes at post-primary level depending on subject choices, class size data is not available at post-primary level.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I established the Apprenticeship Council last year. In considering the membership of the Council, I had to balance the requirement to have input from a broad range of employers and other stakeholders with the need for a tight and effective working structure. In that context, I asked the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, which represents a range of company types and sizes through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Modern Language Teaching (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I understand that the Deputy is referring to part of a discussion paper from the Irish Universities Association task group on the selection and entry into higher education. This paper does not contain concrete proposals by the NUI but is intended to stimulate debate in the university sector on a whole range of issues around selection and entry into higher education. The Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the General Allocation Model (GAM), which provides additional resource teaching, learning support, and English Additional Language support for all primary schools, is now updated annually based on the number of mainstream teaching posts in each school and in order to take account of updated enrolments. Details of the GAM allocation process, and of GAM...