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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question applied to my Department for funding towards the provision of an additional special education teaching room. My Department has advised the school that the space sought can be provided through reconfiguring existing accommodation. My Department considers that the provision of additional accommodation is therefore not required.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1198, 1199 and 1286 together. My Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions, including Institutes of Technology. The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of funding is then a matter for the individual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The number of teachers on the payroll of my Department in receipt of allowances in respect of the qualifications referred to by the Deputy are contained in the following table. Education and Training Boards (ETBs) employ and pay their own staff and, accordingly, my Department does not have available to it a breakdown of the numbers of ETB teaching staff in the categories requested by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Child and Family Act, 2013, the Child and Family Agency has a primary responsibility to promote the safety and well-being of children. An Garda Síochána also has statutory responsibilities for the safety and welfare of children. Full details of all allegations made by the subject of this PQ were sent on 25th February 2014 to the Child and Family Agency in Ennis Co. Clare...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In its response to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment, the Government agreed in December 2014 that out of court settlements be offered in those extant cases of school child sexual abuse being brought against the State where the cases come within the terms of the ECtHR judgment and satisfy the Statute of Limitations. Subsequently, in July of this year, the Government approved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: University Legal Fees (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: University College Dublin is a party to ongoing litigation arising from and in connection with these named proceedings. In this context the university is not in a position to make comment in respect of any matter concerning proceedings which remain sub judice.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care Education Standards (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are no plans to introduce a single care and education quality programme that comprises the merging of the Tusla's National Early Years Inspectorate and the Inspectorate of the Department of Education and Skills (DES). Responsibility for the Tusla Early Years Inspectorate lies with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs while the Early-Years Education-Focused Inspections (to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Institutions Redress Board was established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 to provide fair and reasonable financial awards to victims of institutional childhood abuse. The closing date for receipt of applications was 15th December 2005. The Board could, however, accept late applications in exceptional circumstances, up until September 2011. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school site referred to by the Deputy is owned by the school authorities. Issues such as those referred to by the Deputy are matters to be addressed between the school authorities and their neighbour. My Department has no role in dealing with the matters to which the Deputy refers.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Councils (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 27 of the Education Act 1998 provides that students of a post primary school may establish a student council and that the schools Boards of Management should encourage, facilitate, and give all reasonable assistance to such ends. While my Department does not engage with student councils at a local level it does provide significant support for their representative body the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that a suitable permanent site for a new post primary school to serve the Ballinteer-Stepaside area has been identified and the acquisition process is underway. Given the commercial sensitivities associated with land acquisitions generally I am not in a position to provide further details at this time. I can, however, assure the Deputy that the acquisition of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1210, 1316 and 1330 together. I wish to advise the Deputies that my Department has received a proposal to amalgamate the two schools in question directly from the schools concerned. My Department is aware that extensive consultations relating to the proposal have been undertaken between relevant stakeholders locally. The amalgamation proposal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the residency requirement of Section 14(4) of the Student Support Act 2011, a student must have been resident in Ireland for at least 3 of the 5 years immediately prior to commencing an approved course in an approved institution in order to qualify for a grant. However, a student may qualify for a grant, having met the residency requirement during the course of their studies.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The issue raised by the Deputy is currently being considered at the Teachers' Conciliation Council. The Teachers' Conciliation Council is the recognised forum for dealing with matters relating to pay and conditions of service of teachers. The parties to the forum include representatives of the managerial authorities of schools, the teacher unions, the Department of Education and Skills and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Sep 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 (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware July Provision is available to all special schools and mainstream primary schools with special classes catering for children with autism that choose to extend their education services through the month of July. My Department also provides July Provision for pupils with a severe/profound general learning disability. Where school based provision is not feasible, home...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Debt Collection (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Third level institutions are autonomous institutions and my Department does not have any function in their day to day operational affairs, for which the Governing Bodies and the management staff of the institutions are responsible. The collection and administration of the student contribution and tuition fees, where a student is not eligible for funding under my Department's free fees...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school to which the Deputy refers has been given approval for 2 mainstream classrooms under my Department's Devolved Additional Accommodation Scheme for 2014. The project is expected to commence on site shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will be aware, in order to qualify for tuition fee funding, students must be first-time undergraduates, hold inter aliaEU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss state for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level course. Where students do not qualify for free fees funding they must...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has recently completed a nationwide demographic exercise to determine where additional post-primary school accommodation might be needed from 2017 onwards. I will announce the details of the new schools arising out of this exercise in due course. A submission in relation to an Irish-medium post-primary school to serve the Dublin 15/East Meath area has been received by my...