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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The 2011 Budget provided for the introduction of a €200 annual Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) programme participant contribution. This was introduced at the start of the 2011/2012 academic year and the same charge has applied each year since then. Full medical card holders, in their own right as well as their dependent children, those eligible under the student grant scheme and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Psychological Service (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. Under this scheme schools can have an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Circular Letter 37/1997 sets out the terms of the agreed scheme on Extra Personal Vacation (EPV) Days in Recognised Primary Schools. A teacher's entitlement to extra personal vacation (EPV) days is on the basis of attending approved summer courses to facilitate quality learning. The decision to approve such leave is a matter for the Board of Management of the school concerned. There is no...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the building project to host the proposed amalgamation of the schools to which he refers is at an early stage of the architectural planning process. The Pre Stage 1 meeting was held in November 2014 and the Department requested a number of points be addressed as part of the Stage 1 report. An Addendum to the Stage 1 report was furnished to the Department by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school building project referred to by the Deputy is included on the current 5 year construction programme announced in 2012. It is listed on the programme to proceed to tender and construction in 2015/16. The project is at an early stage of Architectural Planning. Following the Pre Stage 1 meeting in February 2015, the project was authorised to progress to Stage 2A, which is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will appreciate, due diligence must apply in relation to any site acquisition. With regard to the proposed site for the school referred to by the Deputy, the conveyancing process is at an advanced stage. Due to commercial sensitivities it is not possible to provide further details but the relevant matters are being progressed. In the interim period the Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Funding (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The hourly rates of pay for Home Tuition are aligned to my Department's Circular 0015/2015 which sets out the hourly rates for teachers. There are two rates of payment applicable to tutors engaged in the provision of Home Tuition - the standard rate and the modified rate. These current rates came into effect from the commencement of the 2015/16 school year. The standard rate is payable to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In the past ten years, total pupil enrolment in our first and second level schools has risen by almost 100,000 pupils. The bulk of this increase has been at first level and it is now feeding through to second level. Enrolment levels are still rising annually at both levels and an estimated 55,000 additional places will be required nationally by 2022. Clearly, this level of additionality will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that my Department is in receipt of an application for additional accommodation from the school referred to by the Deputy. The application is currently being considered and my Department will be in direct contact with the school authorities concerned as soon as the assessment process has been concluded.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Grants Online Application system for the 2015/16 academic year is still open although the deadline for receipt of applications for priority processing has passed. Late applications will continue to be accepted by SUSI until early November. Final 2015/16 outturn information will not be available until after the deadline for receipt of applications has passed and all applications have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy recently submitted a Major Capital Application for an extension and refurbishment project. In addition the school in question also submitted an application under the Additional Accommodation scheme to meet its immediate accommodation needs. As the Deputy will appreciate, due to the competing demands on my Department's capital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Expenditure (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Details of total capital funding expended on a county basis on primary and post primary capital projects between 2000 and 2010 are shown in the table below. The structure and diversity of some grant schemes are such that they do not lend themselves to extracting data readily on a county basis. Funding under such schemes appear under the general heading "other". Expenditure on third level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Grants are available under the student grant scheme for students attending approved courses in approved institutions in further and higher education. In the 2014/15 academic year there were 80,551 grant holders and expenditure amounted to €353,481,954.18.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Grants are available under the student grant scheme for students attending approved courses in approved institutions at further and higher education. Grants are paid to qualifying students in respect of maintenance, fees and/or student contribution. The answers to the specific questions posed by the Deputy are as follows: -1,603 mature students qualified to have their tuition fees paid for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In July 2015 the school referred to by the Deputy was requested to submit an application for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to address health and safety issues at their school. To date no application has been received. Should an application be received it will be assessed and the school authority will be notified of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Agencies Board Appointments (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The current Council of the NCSE were appointed in accordance with new arrangements for appointments to State Boards, introduced by this Government in 2011. There is no remuneration or fee for the position. However, travel and subsistence allowances are paid in respect of journeys undertaken to attend meetings of the Board or to transact its business. A total of €645.92 travel and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care Education (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Childcare providers participating in the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) are in contract with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to deliver the pre-school year free of charge to qualifying children enrolled in their service. It is a condition of this contract that any deposit paid by a parent to a childcare provider to secure a place under the ECCE programme, where the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Expenditure (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are a significant number of expenditure components and sources of funding to primary and post primary education which make up the total national allocation. Therefore, any attempt at geographical disaggregation of the national data would be a complex and resource intensive process and is therefore not available to be provided to the Deputy. The general position is that my Department...