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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (10 Jun 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. Data in relation to the 2014/15 school year will be published later in the current school year. The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has not incurred any charges over the past four years for satellite imagery. Any such images used by my Department are obtained from providers who do not levy charges for the service.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Jun 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: Departmental Reports (11 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Report concerned, which I will make available on receipt, is currently being finalised. Any delay, I understand, is due to more up to date school demographic information being incorporated into the Report. As the Deputy may be aware, my Department is currently undertaking a nationwide demographic exercise to determine where additional post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Jun 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 resource teachers and Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. The criteria by which SNA support is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (11 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: To date, nine new primary schools have opened or are scheduled to open under the patronage divesting process. Discussions are continuing with the main Catholic patrons to identify areas where further new schools can open from 2016 onwards. The Cobh area will be included in these discussions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Jun 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 resource teachers and Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. The criteria by which SNA support is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school referred to by the Deputy has been allocated funding under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme to provide a new two classroom stand-alone extension. The school management authority has recently submitted a request of additional funding to link the new extension to the existing school building and this request is currently being considered and the school authority will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Secondment (11 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is Department policy to apply alleviations to meet the business needs of each of the support services, for example, to provide for continuity in management, planning and leadership and retention of expertise. The nature of the CPD provision and the phase of delivery in respect of each individual support service is also taken into account. Alleviations do not apply exclusively to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (11 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is an operational matter for SOLAS and I have asked SOLAS to reply directly to the Deputy with the information requested.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Jun 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: State Examinations (11 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am aware that concerns have been raised by students about the content of the ordinary level Leaving Certificate Mathematics paper 1. I have asked the State Examinations Commission to bring these concerns to the attention of the Chief Examiner for the examination. Commentary and correspondence on the examination from teachers, professional bodies and other interested parties is considered...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy, that since 2010, my Department has been working with the school in grant aiding both improved and additional accommodation. More recently and in conjunction with the school, a further extension is currently being planned. When completed, the school will have sufficient accommodation to operate as an 8 classroom school and the school has expressed its...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (11 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Officials in my Department have confirmed that the student referred to by the Deputy has appealed the decision of the awarding authority to the independent Student Grants Appeals Board. The appeal was received by the Board on 25 April 2015 and will be heard within the timeframe set out in the Student Support Act 2011. The Board will notify the student directly of the outcome of the appeal.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The project to provide permanent accommodation for the school to which the Deputy refers is currently at Stage 2a (Developed Design) of the architectural planning process. A tender exercise for a replacement Consultant Mechanical & Electrical Engineer became necessary in order to complete the Stage 2(a) design. This tender exercise is currently concluding and when the new...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (16 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 25th September, 2014, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:Minister for Finance Tánaiste...

Membership of Committee: Motion (16 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move:That Deputies Charlie Flanagan (Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade), Helen McEntee, Patrick O’Donovan and Noel Harrington be discharged from the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions and that Deputies Pat Deering, Paul J. Connaughton, Anthony Lawlor and Mary Mitchell O’Connor be appointed in substitution for them.

Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (16 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl for raising this issue. On a point of clarification, it was long before 2011 that schools were no longer allowed enter the DEIS scheme. In fact, very few were admitted after 2005. There was a very small number admitted up to 2009. After that, the scheme has not reopened for new schools.

Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (16 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The aim of the DEIS programme is to ensure the educational needs of children and young people from disadvantaged communities are prioritised and effectively addressed. As the Deputy may be aware, last month saw the publication of a report, Learning from the Evaluation of DEIS, which was commissioned by my Department from the ESRI. This report assesses the main findings of research and...

Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (16 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I remind Deputy Ó Fearghaíl again that after the DEIS scheme was set up in 2005, a handful of schools got in up to 2009. After 2009, no schools got in. The kinds of schools the Deputy is talking about, which were amalgamated and so on, could not get in either from 2009.