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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department allocates significant resources to ensure that students can participate fully in their academic courses and are not disadvantaged by reason of a disability. The Fund for Students with Disabilities (FSD) is managed by the HEA on behalf of my department and provides funding to both further and higher education institutions for the provision of services and supports for full-time...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Four new multi-denominational primary schools are to open in September 2015 under the patronage divestment process. Three of these schools will operate under the patronage of Educate Together. The fourth school will be a Gaelscoil operating under the patronage of An Foras Patrúnachta. This development will bring to nine the number of new schools opened under the patronage divesting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: A follow-up paper to the Forum Report entitled 'Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Progress to Date and Future Directions' was published on 1 July 2014. The paper gives an update on the progress made to date on implementing the Forum's recommendations on new schools, divesting of patronage, enrolment legislation and the development of programmes on Education about...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) is developing a curriculum for Education about Religion and Beliefs (ERB) and Ethics for all primary schools, in line with the recommendations of the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary sector The NCCA has developed a Consultation Paper which will form the basis of consultation with stakeholders. The consultation will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Budget 2012 provided for the phased withdrawal of approximately 428 posts allocated to some schools under disadvantage programmes prior to the introduction of DEIS in 2005. Due to conflicting reports of posts being lost in these schools, my Department produced a report on the impact of the withdrawal of these legacy posts from DEIS Band 1 and Band 2 Schools. Following the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Budget 2012 provided for the phased withdrawal of approximately 428 posts allocated to some schools under disadvantage programmes prior to the introduction of DEIS in 2005. Due to conflicting reports of posts being lost in these schools, my Department produced a report on the impact of the withdrawal of these legacy posts from DEIS Band 1 and Band 2 Schools. Following the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Some 31 disadvantaged legacy posts were subsumed into mainstream staffing in the 2012/13 school year, 7 posts were subsumed in the 2013/14 school year and a further 7 were subsumed into mainstream staffing in the 2014/15 school year.Budget 2012 provided for the phased withdrawal of approximately 428 posts allocated to some schools under disadvantage programmes prior to the introduction of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is my understanding that a response has now issued from the State Examinations Commission.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Recipients of grant funding and other payments from my Department are not mainly indexed by whether the recipients have Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) status. It is not, therefore, possible to provide a fully definitive listing of payments to NGOs over the past five years, without assigning very significant administrative resources to this task. However, the table attached, produced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Data (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the table. Amount of Funding paid to Irish and UK Survivor Groups from 2001 to 2013. Converted from £IR Irish Groups 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total Right of Place 1 €269,971.71 €149,423 €135,381 €124,783 €127,904 €52,690...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers submitted a major application for a new school building in November 2013. The current status of all applications, including for the school in question, may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie To facilitate the provision of a new school for the school in question a greenfield site will be required. In that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The building project referred to by the Deputy is included in the Five Year Construction Programme to proceed to Tender and Construction. The original design team appointed to the project had reached completion of Stage 1 of Architectural Planning. As part of that work and following an assessment of the current accommodation, it was agreed by the Department that extensive additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: On 16th December 2014, I announced details of the Government's decision to authorise the State Claims Agency (SCA) to seek to settle claims of school child sexual abuse that come within the parameters of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgment and satisfy the Statue of Limitations. At that time I noted that there was a group of school abuse cases which had not been progressed for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Transfer of School Infrastructure (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is continuing to engage with the congregations in relation to their property offers made in the aftermath of the publication of the Ryan Report. The transfer of the properties offered thus far are being progressed. Whilst progress is being made in this matter, no properties have as yet been fully transferred. The Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 included...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy (2011), the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment was asked to issue guidance on a revised time allocation for subjects in the primary school curriculum that would provide increased time for literacy and numeracy advice. That advice is due in 2016. More generally, I have asked my officials to bring forward the review the Literacy and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: All schools are required (Circulars 0039/2012 primary and 0040/2012 post-primary) to engage in planning for improvement in the areas of literacy and numeracy as part of the school self-evaluation process. This planning requires schools to gather information about current outcomes and to use this evidence to set targets for improvement. This is done on a whole-school basis with a focus on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Levels (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department participates in a number of surveys at primary and second level both at a national and international level. The 2014 National Assessments of English Reading and Mathematics were the eighth in a series which began in 1972. These, and the 2009 assessments involve the parallel testing of mathematics and English reading achievement of Second and Sixth Class pupils. Achievement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 560 and 561 together. A report on Learning from the Evaluation of DEIS commissioned in 2014 is currently nearing completion and I expect to receive the report shortly. I understand that this report will incorporate information in relation to the various inputs, processes and educational outcomes contained in the findings from the DEIS research and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Process (31 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has published a Plan for the Implementation the Education of Persons with Special Educational Needs (EPSEN) Act. This report, which was published in 2006, and which is available at www.ncse.ie, made recommendations which suggested that additional investment over a period of years of up to €235m per annum, across the education and...