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

Jan O'Sullivan: The Major Building Project for the school referred to by the Deputy, is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning, Stage 2b Detailed Design, which includes obtaining the necessary statutory approvals and the preparation of tender documents. In February of this year, the appointment of a replacement design team to the building project was completed and the school authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: New arrangements for the restoration to my Department of delegated sanction for recruiting and promoting certain public sector staff are currently being finalised with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. These new arrangements are expected to be shortly finalised. In the meantime the existing arrangements continue to apply. As part of this Government's commitment to protect...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that funding has been approved for universal access works at the school in question and the school authority has been notified.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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 allocating a quantum of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. Where children have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department, through the teacher support services and education centres, engages teachers on a full time basis annually for the provision of continuing professional development (CPD) through secondment from their schools. These secondments are subject to annual review. The arrangements provide flexibility and ensure that the in-service needs of teachers and other support priorities of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department administers a Home Tuition Scheme which provides a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons including chronic illness such as Cystic Fibrosis, are unable to attend school or absent for a significant proportion of the school year and where the degree of absence is such that without supplementary instruction the pupil is unlikely to be able to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Budget 2014 provided funding of €5 million per annum for three years to support the establishment of book rental schemes in primary schools that did not operate such schemes. DEIS schools will receive €150 per child and non-DEIS schools will receive €100 per child in seed capital to establish book rental schemes. The schools which qualified for funding under this scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (7 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: Home-School Liaison Scheme (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) Scheme operates in Urban and Post Primary Schools included in DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), my Department's Action Plan for educational inclusion. Participating schools are allocated additional teaching posts through the assignment of HSCL Coordinators to individual schools or clusters of schools. Circular 0058/2013...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department calculates the staffing and grant allocations for primary and post primary schools on the basis of the total number of 'recognised' pupils enrolled in the school on 30th September of the previous year. The Rules and Programmes for Secondary Schools define a "recognised pupil" as a pupil who is not less than 12 years of age on the 1st day of January of the school year; who as a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware, the Department of Education and Skills has worked in partnership with Fingal County Council under the Fingal School Model Agreement to acquire sites for educational provision in the Fingal area. The Fingal Model Agreement was signed into effect in July 2006. It represented the first attempt at formalising the interactions between the Department and a local...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved a devolved grant in March 2013 to build four additional classrooms to cater for demographic growth. This project, when completed, will provide accommodation for a staffing level of 24 mainstream teachers in the school. The school is recognised as a 3-stream school by my Department i.e. with capacity for 24 mainstream classes. The school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (7 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 Kildare South area. On foot of this review, arrangements will be made to provide additional post-primary accommodation where this is needed. In the meantime, as previously advised, a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: At primary level I have prioritized work in mathematics. At post primary, I have prioritised work in both mathematics and science. I will summarise the work that is currently in hand. In fact, this year at primary level, the NCCA is developing draft components of a new Primary Mathematics curriculum for junior infants to 2nd class to support their consultation process in this area....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to firstly advise the Deputy that the school in question is currently assigned a National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) psychologist. In common with many other psychological services, NEPS encourages a staged assessment process, whereby each school takes responsibility for a pupil's initial assessment, educational planning and remedial intervention in consultation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that in recent years the National Council for Special Needs Education (NCSE) Resource Teaching allocation process has operated as an annual allocation process, whereby schools are asked to submit all of their resource teaching applications to the NCSE by March of each year, and then receive details of their resource teaching allocations for the coming school year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that, in primary schools, additional teaching supports for pupils with special education needs are provided through two channels. Under the terms of the General Allocation Model (GAM) of teaching supports, schools are resourced to cater for pupils whose educational psychological assessment places them in the high incidence, or less complex, disability...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Gaeltachta (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I mí Lúnasa 2014, ceadaíodh deontas déabhlóidithe do Scoil Bhaile Nua faoi Scéim Chóiríochta Breise mo Roinne chun rangsheomra príomhshrutha breise amháin agus leithreas d'úsáideoirí cuidithe a chur ar fáil. Chuir an tÚdarás Scoile iarratas faoi bhráid le déanaí ar mhaoiniú breise chun...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Gaeltachta (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Tá meas agam ar an dtuiscint agus ar an dtaithí a thugann ionadaithe na scoileanna Gaeltachta go COGG agus an ról atá tar éis a bheith acu maidir leis an obair chuimsitheach atá déanta ag COGG ó bunaíodh í i 2002. I gcomhthéacs an bhunaithe do bhord nua COGG tá roinnt deiseanna ann do scoileanna Gaeltachta ionadaíocht a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Data (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As outlined previously to the Deputy where undergraduate students do not qualify for free fees funding under the Free Fees Initiative they must pay the appropriate fee - either EU or Non-EU, as determined by each higher education institution. Higher education institutions are autonomous bodies and the level of fee payable by students who do not meet the requirements of the free fees...