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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 129 to 132, inclusive, together. Following amalgamations and/or closures of schools in 2012, there are currently 860 schools included in DEIS providing education for 165,350 children. The breakdown is as follows: 197 DEIS Band 1 and 144 DEIS Band 2 Primary Schools with total enrolment of 76,845.324 DEIS Rural schools – with enrolment of 23,750.195...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 133 to 136, inclusive, together. The data for the numbers of schools with 1, 2, 3 and 4 teaching teachers is provided in the table below. No. of Full Time Equivalent Teaching Teachers 2011/12 Number of teaching teachers in school Number of Schools 1 11 2 564 3 472 4 503

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 137 and 138 together. There is detailed historical information contained in the Statistics Section of my Department's website relating to the number of pupils and teaching posts in schools. The most recent published information relates to the 2011/2012 school year. There were circa 6,700 resource and learning support (General Allocation Model) posts in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports including Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support, to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Enhanced rates of capitation funding are paid in respect of children with special educational needs who attend special schools or special classes attached to mainstream schools. The following table outlines these rates and the total expenditure in recent years. Information going back to the introduction of special needs funding many decades ago is not readily available and would involve an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: There are currently 141 Special Schools in the State.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: In 2011/2012, the most recent year for which data is available, there were 254 mainstream schools with special classes in the State.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The day to day management of how teaching resources are used in schools is done at local school level. It is established policy that guidance is a whole school activity and under existing arrangements each school develops a school guidance plan as a means of supporting the needs of its students. I am confident schools will act in the best interest of students. I acknowledge that the reduction...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 144 and 145 together. My Department provides capitation funding to all recognised primary schools and post primary schools within the free education scheme. My Department provide funding to primary schools by way of per capita grants, subject to a minimum grant equivalent to 60 pupils and a maximum grant equivalent to 500 pupils. The funding arrangements made...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Since 2010 funding to schools towards the provision of school books has been allocated to all schools on a per capita basis. The rates for 2012 are as follows: Primary DEIS - €21 Primary non-DEIS - €11 Post-primary DEIS - €39 Post-primary non-DEIS - €24 Funding for book grants was withdrawn in 2009, except in the case of DEIS schools. Funding was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the school to which he refers has been allocated a devolved grant to provide a two classroom ASD Unit with ancillary accommodation. The school authorities have been notified of this decision in a letter dated 4th October 2012. My Department has since received a further application for additional funding. This application is currently being considered...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The teacher referred to by the Deputy is currently on the supplementary special panel. Special schools with vacancies and primary schools with special class and resource post vacancies are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from the supplementary special panel when the main and subsidiary special panels are clear. The core function of the redeployment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The school to which the Deputy refers is a fee-charging school and therefore, the question of the extent and payment of any fees is a matter between the school and parents involved.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Internet Safety Issues (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Office for Internet Safety has been established by the Government to take a lead responsibility for internet safety in Ireland, particularly as it relates to children. However, it is important for all of us to be vigilant and alert to the potential risks associated with the use and misuse of modern technologies. In this context, individual schools have the capacity to filter the content...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 114 to 117, inclusive, together. The most recent information on the cost of a pupil attending a national school is for the 2011 financial year. The Department of Education and Skills current expenditure per first level pupil for 2011 was €6,368. Current expenditure per student by the Department of Education and Skills broken down by second level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I assume the Deputy is referring to the fee-charging second level schools. Grants are not paid by my Department in respect of pupils enrolled in fee-charging schools. The most recent statistics show that a total of over 25,600 pupils attend fee-charging schools. The Department of Education and Skills spends approximately €100 million on current expenditure in these schools and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Department publishes all current circulars on its website at www.education.ie. An e-mail issued to the CEO of County Cork VEC on the 29 June 2009 which advised that the music provision provided by Cork County School of Music was not part of the VEC's Further Education remit and that the appropriate teacher qualifications were those pertaining to primary and second level provision. This...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As previously outlined to the Deputy on 9th October 2012, the priority in the education capital budget sector is to focus on major school projects and smaller projects devolved to schools to meet demographic demands over the next five years. Given the necessity to concentrate on meeting the need for additional school places it is unlikely that funding will be available for a minor works grant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The school building referred to by the Deputy is currently the subject of a major extension and refurbishment project. This project when complete will provide appropriate accommodation to facilitate the amalgamation of the two nearby primary schools and additional school accommodation to meet additional pupil enrolments in the area. A design team was appointed in September of this year to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Grants (18 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The waiting time for processing a student grant application by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) varies, depending on a number of factors including the volume of applications received at any given time, the complexity of the grant applicants circumstances, and time taken by the applicant to submit all the required documentary evidence to enable a final decision to be made on an...