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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Reconfiguring the application process alongside the CAO applications process is not a straightforward proposition. For example one of the key eligibility criteria for receiving grant funding is the assessment of reckonable income. Income details supplied by Revenue and/or Department of Social Protection for the relevant period for assessment purposes would not be available when the CAO...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department provides capitation funding to all recognised primary and post primary schools within the free education scheme. My Department provides funding to primary schools by way of per capitagrants, subject to a minimum grant equivalent to 60 pupils and a maximum grant equivalent to 500 pupils. In 2014, €188million was provided in per capita grant funding to primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 866 and 867 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that Project Iris is a longitudinal study commissioned by the National Council for Special Education to examine the provision of special education in Irish schools and the outcomes and experiences of students with special educational needs (SEN). The report from this study is currently being finalised in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 868 and 869 together. Group arrangements are put in place where parents/guardians of children who are eligible for home tuition seek alternative arrangements and my Department responds to, and facilitates the parents/guardians, by putting in place agreements with private pre-school providers which provide group tuition to children in a class type setting....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The last Budget included an increase in spending on education for the first time in recent years, amounting to additional funding of €60m during 2015. That increase has provided funding for 1,700 additional teachers and SNAs to be recruited for our schools, as well as funding important reforms. However, it was not possible to secure the funding which would be required to also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Statistics Section of my Department's website contains extensive data relating to schools at primary and post-primary level. The most recent published information relates to the 2013/2014 school year. Based on the published information for the 2013/14 school year there were 1,829 teacher principal posts at primary level. Data in relation to the 2014/15 school year will be published...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equality Issues (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The process I announced recently to renew the DEIS Programme has a number of strands: a consultation process with the education partners to inform the development of appropriate measures to tackle educational disadvantage; an inter-Departmental Group to ensure a joined-up approach to delivery of services in DEIS; and a Technical Group to develop a revised identification process for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Digital Strategy for Schools will be finalised in the coming weeks and sets out an ambitious five plan to further embed ICT in teaching, learning and assessment. Under this Strategy the Department will identify a set of funding priorities annually over the lifetime of the Digital Strategy. The annual funding plans will take cognisance of the economic climate and the availability of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My focus in Budget 2015 was on obtaining the additional funding that was necessary to provide for demographic growth. The last Budget included an increase in spending on education for the first time in recent years, amounting to additional funding of €60m during 2015. This funding will be used to provide 1,700 additional teachers and SNAs for our schools, as well as to fund...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The main criteria of the Free Fees Initiative provides that students must be first-time undergraduates, holdinter alia EU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss state for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level course. Assistance under the scheme is not available for courses at postgraduate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Victim Support Services (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I met with representatives of the group Right to Peace on 22nd April having previously met with them in December 2014. A range of issues were discussed at the meeting and I will be writing to the representatives to follow-up on a number of issues shortly. Section 20(7) of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act, 2012 provides that decisions of Caranua on applications made to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Victim Support Services (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Towards Healing, which is funded by the Catholic Church, provides counselling and related support to survivors of institutional, clerical or religious abuse and their families. My Department has no function in relation to this service and provides no funding to it. As the Deputy may be aware Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, has agreed a Memorandum of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The following table details the number of students, by county, who following review by SUSI have had their student grant revoked and their eligibility subsequently refused in the academic year 2014/15 to date. These applicants have since been informed that they are liable for repayment of any overpayments made in respect of any payments having previously been awarded. These 165...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Exchequer funds tuition fee costs in respect of eligible students who are pursuing full-time undergraduate courses of study under my Department's Free Fees Initiative. The main conditions of the scheme are that students must be first-time undergraduates, hold inter alia EU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss state for at least...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department remains committed to providing permanent accommodation for the school to which he refers. The Deputy is aware that it is intended that the school will relocate to a premises currently occupied by a special school pending the construction of its new school. The Major Building Project for the special school is currently at an advanced stage of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will be aware, pay talk discussions are currently ongoing between Public Service Management and the Public Services Committee of ICTU. It would be inappropriate for me as Minister for Education and Skills to make any further comment at this time. With regard to Junior Cycle discussions, it is accepted that the various workload implications of implementation of the Framework...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Historic Abuse Cases (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 882 and 883 together. In its response to the ECHR judgment, the Government agreed that out of court settlements be offered in those cases of school child sexual abuse being brought against the State where the cases come within the terms of the ECHR Decision and satisfy the Statute of Limitations. In pursuing settlements, the State Claims Agency will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Curaclam Scoile (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Í 2014, d'ullmhaigh an tSeirbhís um Fhorbairt Ghairmiúil do Mhúinteoirí (SFGM) treoir cleachtais ar Fhoghlaim Chomhtháite Ábhair agus Teanga. Cuireadh san áireamh í sin ó shin mar chuid den Ábhar Tacaíochta do Churaclam nua Teanga na Bunscoile: Gaeilge agus Béarla, do pháistí i Ranganna Sóisearacha Bunscoile....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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 significant care needs whereby...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Travel (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am currently attending the NAFSA (Association of International Educators) Conference in Boston for five days, the largest global event within international education. More than 10,000 international educators attend this conference annually from over 100 countries. The main focus of my visit will be to meet with both the Head of NAFSA and the President of the Institute of International...