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Written Answers — Schools Planning: Schools Planning (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: My Department is included among the prescribed authorities to whom local authorities are statutorily obliged to send draft development plans or proposed variations to development plans for comment. From the documentation received in my Department, I am advised that the local authority in question have issued an "Issues Paper" leading to the review of the existing development plan and that...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Office of Public Works, which acts on behalf of the Department in relation to site acquisitions generally, has been requested to investigate the acquisition of a suitable site. Due to the commercial sensitivities involved, I do not propose to comment any further in relation to a specific site as referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Schools Planning: Schools Planning (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The process of assessing the need for new or additional accommodation facilities at primary or post primary level in any given area entails consideration of all relevant factors, including enrolment and demographic trends, housing developments and existing school capacity to meet current or future demand. As part of the process, my Department is included among the prescribed authorities to...

Written Answers — Schools Planning: Schools Planning (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Generally my Department will use a variety of information sources when examining demographic trends and housing developments. In the area referred to by the Deputy, these include inter alia the Census, County Development Plans/Town Development Plans, Local Area Plans as well as current and project enrolment patterns.

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: An application for capital funding towards the provision of a new school building on a greenfield site has been received from the school referred to by the Deputy. An assessment of projected enrolment trends, demographic trends and housing developments in the area will be required in order to determine the long-term projected staffing figure on which the school's accommodation needs will be...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the information requested is available on my Department's website on a county by county basis at www.education.ie. I am sure the Deputy will appreciate that I am not in a position to provide details of individual names of Chairpersons due to data protection restrictions.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy is currently located on a temporary basis on grounds under the ownership of the County Kerry VEC. The issue of a new school building project and the location of same will need to be considered in the context of the School Building and Modernisation Programme.

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: On foot of a Government decision, the State Examinations Commission was formally established on 6 March 2003 to assume statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. Accordingly, I have passed your query to the Chief Executive Officer of the Commission for direct reply.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: My Department provides funding towards the cost of secretarial services in primary and secondary schools under two separate schemes. One is the 1978 scheme for the employment of school secretaries in primary and secondary schools under which my Department meets the full cost of salary. The 1978 scheme is being phased out as posts become vacant and no new posts are being created. The 1978...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: A Principal of a school is paid a Principal's allowance in addition to his/her basic salary and qualification allowances. The rate payable is based on the number of authorised teaching posts in the school. The current rates payable from the 1st June 2007 are outlined in the tables. Principals' Allowances — Primary Authorised Posts Scale Points 01 June 2007 € 1 – 2 1 9,328 3...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Under the Public Service Modernisation section of Towards 2016 it was agreed that new arrangements would be made for the redeployment of surplus teachers in second level schools. The agreement recognised that the effective use of resources is essential for the provision of high quality public services and that effective and efficient arrangements needed to be in place to deal with the...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Circular Letter 6/98, issued by my Department in February 1998, sets out the schedule of assistant principal and special duties teacher posts in voluntary secondary schools as agreed between the respective management bodies, the teacher unions and my Department. Circular 5/98, also issued by my Department in February 1998, sets out the agreed national criteria for the level and types of...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: There are no plans in place to pay teachers taking after school activities such as sports or dealing with societies.

Written Answers — Departmental Records: Departmental Records (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I regularly visit the headquarters of my Department each week.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: There are a number of defined situations where a retired teacher may be prevented or restricted from returning to teach. Firstly, where a teacher retires under the early retirement scheme for teachers, he or she is subject to certain conditions. Where he or she retires because of professional difficulties or where his or her retirement provides the school with an opportunity to enhance the...

Written Answers — Summer Works Scheme: Summer Works Scheme (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy may be aware, the Summer Works Scheme was introduced in 2004. Since then, over 3,000 projects costing in excess of €300 million have been completed. Considerable extra investment has been provided in the Budget to increase funding for school buildings to almost €600 million next year. With so many small projects having been completed over the past few years, I intend to...

Written Answers — School Staff Remuneration: School Staff Remuneration (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: My Department provides funding towards the cost of secretarial services in primary and voluntary secondary schools under two separate schemes. One is the 1978 scheme for the employment of school secretaries in primary and secondary schools under which my Department meets the full cost of salary. The 1978 scheme is being phased out as posts become vacant and no new posts are being created. The...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (18 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Officials from my Department are currently examining the revised Stage 3 documentation that had previously been requested from the project's Design Team. The Schools board of management will be kept informed of developments on completion of this examination.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (19 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: This month Office of Public Works has announced further progress towards the provision of permanent accommodation in Mullingar for my Department in that it has just invited a consortium to become the successful tenderer for a decentralisation accommodation project to include Mullingar. To date no decision has been taken as to whether a number of posts will be located into temporary...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information sought is being compiled in my Department and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.