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

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has received correspondence from the school in question relating to the matter referenced in the details supplied. My Department expects to be in a position to respond to the correspondence shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Since September 2012 guidance provision in schools, including PLCs, must be managed by schools from within their standard staffing allocation. Schools have autonomy on how best to prioritise their available resources to meet their requirements in relation to guidance and the provision of an appropriate range of subjects to students. Decisions on how this is done is taken at school level. For...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Where parents of children who are eligible for Home Tuition under the terms of the scheme seek access to alternative arrangements such as those which are the subject of this question, and where such services are available to the parents and eligible children, my Department has responded and will continue to respond to such requests with consideration and sympathy and with whatever flexibility...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As I have previously advised the House in January of this year, the context of the correspondence referred to by the Deputy is significant in clarifying this issue. The letter was in response to a submission from a private service provider outlining their intention to submit claim forms for funding for four children who were approved for home tuition to assist in their timely processing...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that discussions are ongoing between my Department and the Patron of the school, in question, regarding options including that referred to by the Deputy to meet the long term accommodation needs of the school concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with Section 18 of the Education Act 1998, schools (other than those established or maintained by an Education and Training Board) are required to keep all proper and usual accounts and records of all monies received by it or expenditure of such monies incurred by it and must ensure that in each year all such accounts are properly audited or certified in accordance with best...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Circular Letter 0023/2015 which was issued by my Department in March 2015 sets out the detailed arrangements and procedures for the implementation and procedures for the implementation of the recommendations of the Expert Group on Fixed-Term and Part-Time Employment in Primary and Second Level Education in Ireland. One of the key features of the new procedures is that the qualification...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Secondment (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 158, 159 and 160 together. My Department, through the teacher support services and education centres, engages teachers on a full time basis annually for the provision of 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, commenced accepting applications in January 2014 and there is no closing date for receipt of applications. While it is envisaged that Caranua will be dissolved when the moneys at its disposal are expended, the precise timing cannot be predicted and accordingly it was deemed preferable to introduce amending primary legislation to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are no plans currently for the provision of Health (Amendment) Act cards to survivors who have accessed Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board. In this regard I would point out that those applying to Caranua can continue to be assessed under the medical card scheme and any awards made by Caranua are disregarded in the income assessment. Eligible survivors can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (28 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: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the terms of the student grant scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students who meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those relating to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. To satisfy the terms and conditions in relation to progression, a student must be moving from year to year within a course, having successfully completed the previous year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware home tuition is intended as interim provision only for children with a special educational need for whom a school placement is not available. Eligibility in this regard is determined in consultation with the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The NCSE has advised that a placement in an existing autism class is available for the child to whom he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that differing teacher allocation ratios are applied under the General Allocation Model (GAM) in relation to boys, girls and mixed schools in order to account for differentials of prevalence of learning difficulty between boys and girls. The objective of this differentiation is to ensure that resources provided to schools to support children who have additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Training allowances are aligned to participants' social welfare entitlement and so take account of means and other factors. An additional training allowance used to be paid for long term unemployed people. This was introduced during a period of high employment levels as an incentive for the long term unemployed to participate in FÁS (now Education and Training Board) training...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: A new 1,000 pupil post-primary school is scheduled to open in 2016 in the area referred to by the Deputy. Patronage of this school was awarded to Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education & Training Board and it will be a multi-denominational, co-educational non-designated community college. The Design Team on the project for the school, has recently completed stage 2(a) and has been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from primary and post primary schools for special educational needs supports, including the establishment of special classes in various geographical areas as required. The NCSE operates within my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers submitted a major application for a new school building in November 2013. The current status of all applications, including for the school in question, may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie. To facilitate the provision of a new school building for the Gaelscoil in question a greenfield site will be required....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take questions 926 and 978 together. The project referred to by the Deputies is nearing completion of the Design Team appointment stage. The Tender competition for the Design Team appointment has concluded and the Board of Management have finalised the assessment of the tenders received. Letters of Intent and feedback letters have recently issued to all Tenderers and subject...