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

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) are allocated to Special Schools and to mainstream Primary and Post Primary schools to assist children with special educational needs who also have additional and significant care needs. Such support is provided in order to facilitate the attendance of those pupils at school and also to minimise disruption to class or teaching...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware the purpose of the Home Tuition Scheme is to provide compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend school. The scheme also provides a compensatory educational service for children with special educational needs seeking an educational placement and provision is made for early educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Administration (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1250 and 1278 together. The purpose of the Home Tuition Scheme is to provide a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend school, for children with special educational needs awaiting a suitable educational placement and for early intervention for children with autism. The change in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Funding (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The purpose of the Home Tuition Scheme is to provide a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend school, for children with special educational needs awaiting a suitable educational placement and for early intervention for children with autism and all the funds allocated to this scheme are fully utilised. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has just sent copies of its 2016 commemorative programme in a Circular to all schools. The Circular details a wide range of initiatives designed to appropriately commemorate and reflect upon the 1916 rising and its leaders. My Department has a range of over twenty initiatives, competitions, awards and resource-development projects in train, all of which are detailed in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1253 and 1282 together. As the Deputies will be aware, since 2006, under the Teaching Council Act 2001, the Teaching Council is the regulator and standards body for the teaching profession. The Council is obliged under the terms of EU Directive 2005/36/EC to grant registration to teachers who have completed 'regulated education and training' and are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1254 to 256, inclusive, 1268 and 1312 together. Eligibility for assistance from Caranua (the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund) is confined to those who received awards from the Residential Institutions Redress Board or equivalent Court awards or settlements. Relatives of survivors of abuse are not eligible to receive support from Caranua. This...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The decision to use tablet devices is a matter for the Board of Management of a school. Where the introduction of new technology is planned, it is advisable that there should be consultation with members of the school community including parents. The cost and other implications must be fully considered by the Boards of Managements before a decision is made. An advice sheet on the adoption...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that I understand an application to establish a Special Needs Class was made directly to the primary school to which the Deputy refers. I understand however that this application was not proceeded with at this time due to the current accommodation arrangements of the school in question. The position is that the school building in which the primary school in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (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. This comprised all areas of the country, including Swords. I will announce the details of new schools to be provided arising from this exercise in due course. Where new schools are to be established, my Department runs an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Student grant applications are means tested on gross income from all sources earned inside and outside the State within a specified reference period, with certain specified social welfare and Health Service Executive payments excluded. The Student Grant Scheme 2015 was published in April 2015. The 2015 Scheme includes a number of new income disregards such as Rent Supplement payments. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Eligibility for assistance from the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund is limited to those people who received awards from the Residential Institutions Redress Board or equivalent Court awards or settlements. The Residential Institutions Redress Board was established pursuant to the provisions of the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002. The Schedule to that Act included 123...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1273 and 1296 together. Up until September 2012, an ex-quota allocation was provided for guidance in addition to the standard teacher allocation to post primary schools. This resource was allocated in accordance with pupil enrolment. 42% of second-level schools at the time were allocated at least 22 hours per week in respect of guidance (22 hours being the...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take questions Nos. 1275 to 1277, inclusive, together. 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...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The table contained in the attached document outlines the proportion of undergraduate new entrants to higher education from 2005/06 to 2014/15 by gender. A new entrant is a first time participant in higher education entering in the first year of an undergraduate programme. The proportions by gender will vary by institution type. In 2005/06 in the Institute of Technology sector 52% of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Very significant numbers of third-level students move out of home to go to college and continue to be supported by their parents while in full-time education. Confirmation that a student is living separately from their parents/guardians is, of itself, not sufficient to establish independent status. When considering whether a student meets the conditions to be assessed independently of his...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that the purpose of the Home tuition Scheme is to provide a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend school. The scheme also provides a compensatory educational service for children with special educational needs seeking an educational placement. Provision is also made for early...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school, to which she refers, currently has a major project to provide a 32 classroom school on the existing site The major building project is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning (Stage 2b – Detailed Design). With regard to the immediate accommodation issues arising, it is open to the school authority to submit an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Grant Scheme for Minor Works the following amounts were issued to primary schools in the years 2011 to date: Year Amount 2011 28.2m 2012 nil 2013 €28.8m 2014 €28.5m 2015 to date nil

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1289 to 1291, inclusive, together. The 3 out of 5 years residency requirement is set out in Section 14 of the Student Support Act 2011. SUSI has advised that the number of students refused grants during 2014 to 2015 who were Irish citizens on habitual residency grounds was 27. The following documents may be used to prove evidence of residence in the State, the...