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

Jan O'Sullivan: The majority of school buildings in the state are in private ownership and under denominational patronage. When state monies were provided to facilitate building works to school property owned by a third party, a legal mechanism had to be put in place in order to protect the State's interest. This was known as a Charging Lease or Declaration of Trust. These leases protect the Minister's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The proposal referred to by the Deputy was submitted to my Department to fund an Academy for Children with Autism for children aged 4 – 14 as an alternative to State funded placements in State funded schools. A decision was taken not to provide the funding to support the proposal as it was not in line with departmental policy on educational provision for children with autism and the...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 912 and 913 together. Where parents of children who are eligible for home tuition have sought alternative arrangements to be put in place for the tuition my Department has responded and facilitated by putting arrangements in place with private commercial organisations which provide group tuition to children in a class type setting. The arrangements...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Recruitment (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The tabular statement gives details of appointments made at my Department and at the bodies under its aegis in 2014 as requested by the Deputy. Department of Education & Skills GRADE Perm/Temp No. Primary School Inspector Perm 4 Educational Psychologist Perm 4 Assistant Secretary General Perm 1 Administrative Officer Perm 5 Clerical Officer *Temp 36 Services Officer *Temp...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Redeployment (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can advise the deputy that the following staff in my Department and in the aegis bodies under the remit of my Department were seconded out either abroad or to another Department during 2014. Department of Education and Skills staff: 1 PO Irish Wheelchair Association 1 Statistician Higher Education Authority 1 Statistician ICTU 1 Statistician St Luke's Institute of Cancer Research 1 AP DFA/...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Retirements (26 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Approximately 2,440 public servants retired from the education sector in 2014. This figure includes former teaching and non-teaching staff from the schools sector, former staff of universities, Institutes of Technology, Education and Training Boards and from SOLAS, as well as from certain other third level institutions. This figure excludes civil service retirements.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (27 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: Departmental Properties (27 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school referred to by the Deputy closed in 2012. I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department had a vested interest in the property by means of a charging lease which expired in 1970. The future use of the property is a matter for the property owners.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (27 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's Planning and Building Unit has recently received the additional information it sought from the school authority in respect of their application and this information is currently being assessed. The school authority will be notified of the outcome as quickly as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 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 resource teaching and Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support to schools to support children with special educational needs and additional care needs, respectively. The NCSE operates within my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Education Review (27 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is at an advanced stage in the preparation of its policy advice on educational provision for students with autism spectrum disorders. I understand that, as requested by my predecessor Minister Quinn, the NCSE has consulted widely with parents, a range of professionals, other stakeholders and interested parties in the preparation of this policy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (27 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: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) are allocated to Special Schools and to mainstream Primary and Post Primary schools to assist children with special educational needs who also have additional and significant care needs. Such support is provided in order to facilitate the attendance of those pupils at school and also to minimise disruption to class or teaching time for the pupils concerned, or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Payments (27 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: School Accommodation (27 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: An application in respect of additional accommodation has been received in respect of the school referred to by the Deputy. As the Deputy will appreciate, in view of the financial constraints within which my Department is operating, the position is that priority is being given to school applications for essential mainstream classroom accommodation. In the circumstances, my Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (27 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will be aware, DEIS - Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, is my Departments main policy instrument for tackling educational disadvantage. The recently published ESRI report on "Learning from the Evaluation of DEIS" which was commissioned by my Department, draws together the learning to date from the implementation of DEIS and identifies some of the challenges for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 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: School Management (27 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: A Board of Management established under Section 14 of the Education Act 1998, other than a Board of Management of a school established or maintained by an Education and Training Board (ETB), is currently exempt from the Freedom of Information Acts. Section 18 of the Education Act 1998 requires schools, other than schools established or maintained by an ETB, to keep all proper and usual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Digital Strategy for Schools will be finalised in the coming weeks and sets out an ambitious five year plan to further embed ICT in teaching, learning and assessment. Under this Strategy my Department will identify a set of funding priorities annually over the lifetime of the Digital Strategy and the provision of IT equipment to schools will be considered in this context.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The majority of school buildings in the state are in private ownership and under denominational patronage. When state monies were provided to facilitate building works to school property owned by a third party, a legal mechanism had to be put in place in order to protect the State's interest. This was known as a Charging Lease or Declaration of Trust. These leases protect the Minister's...