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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (7 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with SUSI, the new centralised grant awarding authority, that the student referred to by the Deputy has been awarded a grant and an award letter has issued to the student.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (7 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: There are currently seven amalgamated schools comprising DEIS and non-DEIS schools, one at primary level in Sligo and six at post-primary level in counties Galway, Wicklow, Laois, Limerick, Mayo and Kildare. In the case of an amalgamation involving DEIS and non-DEIS schools, while DEIS status does not transfer to the newly amalgamated school, it is the practice of the Department to continue...

Estimates for Public Services 2012 (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I move the following Supplementary Estimate:

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132, 133 and 140 together. My Department does not generally hold information relating to the salaries of individual VEC employees, who are paid by the VECs and, accordingly, the information requested by the Deputy is not readily available. Officials of my Department have requested from the VECs information relating to gross salaries of the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) aim on an on-going basis to improve the technology, policies and procedures with a view to an improved service for the student and a more dynamic approach to communication with all stakeholders. High on SUSI's list is the integration of technologies so that it can allow students to submit documentation by means of scanning services. This has been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with SUSI, the new centralised grant awarding authority, that the decision on the application referred to by the Deputy is currently under review by SUSI and the student will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: In total, SUSI has received just over 66,000 applications for student grants this year. Some 18,000 applications are now complete. This includes some 9,000 applications which have been refused and some 9,000 which have been awarded, or awarded pending submission of final course details by the student. SUSI is awaiting documentation on some 21,000 applications. The remaining some 27,000 are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy may be aware, the Home Tuition scheme is intended to provide a compensatory educational service to children with a significant medical condition which is likely to cause major disruption to their attendance at school on an ongoing basis. Eligibility of children applying on medical grounds is determined with to reference to medical reports and their attendance details. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Home Tuition scheme provides funding to parents to provide education at home for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend school. The scheme was extended in recent years to facilitate tuition for children awaiting a suitable educational placement. Parents engage tutors directly and the grant is paid to the parent either on a monthly basis in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Redundancy Payments (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to inform the Deputy that, following the conclusion of the consultation process with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, my Department has given sanction to Co. Laois VEC to offer this person the terms of the recently announced Collective Agreement on enhanced redundancy payments to public servants.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) are allocated to schools by the National Council for Special Education in order to provide for the care needs of children with special educational needs attending such schools. The policy of my Department in relation to the SNA scheme is set out in Circular 07/02, which also provides details regarding the role and duties of an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Provisional recognition was initially awarded in 2008 to the school referred to by the Deputy and has been extended each year since. The school is seeking to have permanent recognition granted and a process is in place under which the issue of recognition is being assessed. This process is based on ten undertakings committed to by the school's Patron in 2007 in accordance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Schools with vacancies are required to fill them from the list of surplus permanent teachers on the redeployment panels. At primary level, there are a number of redeployment panels - most of which are organised on a Diocesan basis. The redeployment arrangements include provision for flexibility of movement between panels in order to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 145 to 148, inclusive, together. The following table provides a breakdown on a county basis of the status of the student grant applications received by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), the new centralised grant awarding authority. The tables includes those currently under appeal to SUSI. It gives the position for student grant applications for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The major building project referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. Following an appeal to An Bord Pleanala, planning permission was granted in August 2012. The design team are currently working on the completion of Stage 2(b) which includes all statutory approvals and tender documents. Due to competing demands on my Department's capital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Under the ceilings set as part of last year's Comprehensive Expenditure Review, my Department is required to secure savings on current expenditure of €77 million in 2013. In addition, there are likely to be upward pressures in some areas of pay and non-pay expenditure and in relation to reduced Appropriations-in-Aid receipts. The full extent and management of these pressures is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Under the Education (Welfare) Act 2000, all schools are required to have in place a Code of Behaviour and this code must be drawn up in accordance with the guidelines of the National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB). The NEWB guidelines were issued to schools in 2008 and make it clear that each school must have policies to prevent or address bullying and harassment and schools must make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: People who were first employed in a teaching post (qualified or unqualified) in the public sector on or before 4 December 2011 and who have completed a course of study which commenced on or prior to 4 December 2011 only will be eligible to apply for allowances for that course of study. Additional allowances are not payable for qualifications acquired following a course of study which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Details of agencies under the remit of my Department can be downloaded from the Departments website, this information is updated when any relevant changes occur. www.education.ie The Deputy should note that no agency under the aegis of my Department has been abolished since March, 2011. With regard to the rationalisation of State agencies the Deputy may wish to note the following: - - On...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The information requested by the Deputy is not centrally collated and would involve a very significant amount of administrative time to compile. However, details of public funding disbursements are made available in a range of publications on an annual basis. The Revised Estimates Volume, published annually by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, contains a significant level of...