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Seanad: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: These are technical and consequential amendments arising from the renumbering of section 33 of the 2001 Act as amended by amendment No. 3.

Seanad: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The purpose of this provision is to enable the Teaching Council, where it has received a vetting disclosure in respect of a registered teacher for the purpose of the renewal of his or her registration and information in that disclosure gives rise to a bona fide child protection concern, to provide that information to the employer of the teacher, where that employer is known to the council....

Seanad: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 46B was introduced as an amendment on Committee Stage in the Seanad to provide for the publication of certain information on the outcomes of fitness-to-teach inquiries. This amendment to 46B sets out in a clearer manner the provisions in relation to the circumstances in which the council shall inform the public of such information. It provides that the council shall, where satisfied...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Aistear Curriculum Framework (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department, in conjunction with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, launched a new Aistear / Síolta Practice Guide. This Practice Guide distils the key principles of Aistear, the national early childhood curriculum framework, and Síolta, the national quality framework for early years services. It is intended to be a practical guide for early years practitioners...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The site reservation to which the Deputy refers is for a primary school and not a post-primary school as referred to in the Deputy's question. School planning is carried out on the basis of defined geographical areas known as school feeder areas. The demographics of an entire feeder area are taken into consideration when determining additional or new school accommodation needs. The basis for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 640 to 642, inclusive, together. I wish to advise the Deputy that all schools have been allocated additional teaching resources to cater for children with high incidence special educational needs, including Specific Learning Disability (SLD), of which dyslexia is one such Specific Learning Disability. All mainstream Primary schools have been allocated...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jul 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 has just been completed. The newly appointed Replacement Engineer will engage with the other members of the design team to complete...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department's priority for the remainder of this Dáil is the implementation of the relevant commitments in the Programme for Government, published in 2011, and in the Statement of Government Priorities 2014-2016, issued by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste in July 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 Jul 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: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 Jul 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: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 Jul 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 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information that is available in relation to the number of teachers in primary schools on a county basis as provided by the managerial authorities of the schools are published in the Statistics Section of my Department's website. The link to access the information is containd at www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Data-on-Individu al-Schools/ Statistics on a county basis are not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that I recently announced that I had secured Government approval for an additional 610 Special Needs Assistant (SNA) posts which may be made available for allocation to schools to support children with special educational needs with assessed care needs. From the beginning of September, there will be 11,820 whole time equivalent SNA posts available in schools to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Over the period 2011 to date (mid-July 2015) a total of seven large scale projects were completed in counties Longford and Westmeath. These projects comprise the following: Two new primary schools and one new post-primary school.Two large scale extensions at primary level and two large extensions at post-primary level.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major building project referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning - Stage 2b (Detailed Design) which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire Cert, Disability Access Cert and the preparation of Tender Documents. All statutory approvals have been secured. The Stage 2b submission has been reviewed by my Department and the Design Team...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am pleased to confirm to the Deputy that funding has recently been approved to the school in question for the provision of two resource rooms. A letter confirming this decision has issued to the school.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Junior Cycle curriculum was last changed in 1989. The new Junior Cycle reform is being phased in from September 2014 until September 2019. This phasing in approach is to enable the NCCA to prepare new specifications, to allow school leaders and teachers to prepare for the new subjects including the provision of CPD, so that students can have a quality learning experience. At Senior...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks Rental Scheme (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The previous Minister launched new "Guidelines for Developing Textbook Rental Schemes in Schools" on the 28th January 2013. These Guidelines provide practical advice to primary and post-primary schools on how rental schemes can be established and operated. The aim of the Guidelines is to help as many schools as possible to start such book rental programmes.Schools which already have book...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 Jul 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: Student Grant Scheme Reform (16 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The rates of grant and the income thresholds for the Student Grant Scheme are announced annually as part of the Budget. No changes to the rates or thresholds were included in Budget 2015. Student grant applications are means tested on gross income from all sources earned inside and outside the State within a specified reference period. The means test arrangements of the Student Grant Scheme...