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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 452 to 454, inclusive, together. My Department's policies focus on ensuring that all children can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. A range of placement options for pupils with special educational needs is provided, in order to ensure that all pupils...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently considering the options available to it in light of the refusal of planning permission by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for the access road to the site in question. My Department is in the process of engaging with the key stakeholders in the matter. It remains my intention to progress the development of the new school buildings as part of the Bundle 5...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department's policies focus on ensuring that all children can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. A range of placement options for pupils with special educational needs is provided, in order to ensure that all pupils can receive a school placement. Many...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The needs of the College will be considered in the context of budgetary resources and having regard to competing demands.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Breaks Standardisation (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: While standardised arrangements for the breaks to be taken by schools at Christmas, Easter and midterm apply to all schools, it is not a requirement of these agreed arrangements that the commencement or end of the school year either at primary or post-primary level should be standardised. Individual schools may therefore determine the precise start and end of the school year subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Design Team for the project referred to by the Deputy is currently finalizing the tender documentation and the prequalification of contractors list with a view to proceeding to re-tender shortly. The project remains on the Department's Construction Programme and will be progressed through a new tender process over the coming months. The new tender process will provide both the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Designation (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 460 and 461 together. I have not removed the rural category of school from the DEIS programme. Accordingly the matter of its reinstatement does not arise. The Deputy may wish to note my recent announcement in relation to the DEIS programme in the context of the publication of the ESRI "Learning from DEIS" report. Details of same are available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has been liaising with Cork Education and Training Board and the School Patron with a view to agreeing an accommodation solution for the gaelscoil referred to by the Deputy. I am pleased to confirm a suitable site (subject to planning permission) has been identified by Cork Education and Training Board in respect of the development of a permanent building for the school in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Personal Public Service Numbers (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The PPS number will be used as the unique pupil identifier on the Departments Primary Online Database POD and on the Departments Post Primary Online Database (P-POD). This will allow for a child's educational history to be maintained accurately as they move school, as well as ensuring that there are no duplicate enrolments in the system. The PPS number will be obtained from the school and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently carrying out a nationwide demographic exercise to determine where additional post-primary school places might be needed from 2017 onwards. This includes an examination of the area in County Meath referred to by the Deputy. On foot of this review, arrangements will be made to provide additional post-primary accommodation where this is needed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The total gross allocations for the Education & Skills Vote for the years 2010 - 2015 and the Office of the Minister for Education and Science as it was known in 2009 are set out in the table. Year Total Allocation €000 2009 €9,491,702 2010 €9,295,100 2011 €8,888,352 2012 €8,671,643 2013 €8,507,333 2014 €8,505,877 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The table provides details of the projected yield from current expenditure savings measures announced for my Department in respect of each of the Budgets 2010 to 2015, excluding savings measures resulting from central pay policy decisions. The net amount of adjustment year on year in my Department's expenditure allocation is determined by the impact of any savings measures announced and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can inform the Deputy that psychologists employed by my Department in the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) have been recruited on the basis that they hold the relevant qualification as educational psychologists, currently demanded at masters level. NEPS psychologists undergo CPD (Continual Professional Development) to ensure that their competency in the field is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools is published annually on the Department's website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing arrangements for the coming school year 2015/16 are set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has made an application to my Department for capital funding to replace classroom accommodation. The application is currently being considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Current policy in relation to Traveller education is underpinned by the Report and Recommendations for a Traveller Education Strategy which was developed following wide ranging consultation with relevant stakeholders including Traveller representative groups. The principle of inclusion is at the core of the Strategy and, accordingly, the focus of current provision is on the development of a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In the recently completed census conducted at the end of 2013 the use of online tools and/or applications to support teaching and learning was the ICT use most frequently reported to be used regularly. Over half of post-primary principals and over one third of primary and special school principals reported that their schools regularly used content and resources on the local school server to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My officials met with the publishing industry in October to consult with them on the forthcoming Digital Strategy. It was agreed that further engagement with the Department and the publishers will take place over the lifetime of the Digital Strategy. A number of the publishers contributed to the public consultation process for Strategy.