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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that I have made provision in Budget 2016 for some 2,260 additional teaching posts for our primary and post primary schools next year. These posts will provide for an improvement in the staffing schedules at primary and post primary levels, enhance the leadership and management roles of deputy principals at post-primary level by reducing their teaching time, an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The person referred to by the Deputy will be paid salary on 22nd October 2015 and all arrears of salary due will be paid on that date.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has made an application to my Department for capital funding for the provision of additional accommodation. The application is currently being considered and my Department will convey a decision to the school authorities concerned as soon as the assessment process has been concluded.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers has applied to my Department for large scale capital funding to provide a new school building. My Department continues to liaise with the School Authorities in respect of their proposal and in that regard further clarifications are awaited. Once these clarifications have been received the matter will be considered further.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government fully appreciates the concerns regarding the availability of accommodation for students and the report, Student Accommodation: Demand & Supply, which I published recently sets out clearly that the demand for student accommodation outstrips supply in certain areas and will continue to do so in the coming years. There are 13 useful recommendations in this report some of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information sought is not readily available to my Department, however one estimate from publishers' sources suggests that the Irish school book market is worth approximately €60 million per annum. There is a School Books Grant Scheme in place that provides assistance for books for students in all recognised primary and post-primary schools within the Free Education Scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Since 2006 the Teaching Council is the body with statutory authority for registration of teachers in the State. I have asked the Teaching Council to provide the information requested directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department. The Teaching Council is the body with statutory responsibility for the registration of teachers. According to current Teaching Council data, the number of teachers registered in the Primary Sector is 43,084 and the number in the Post Primary Sector is 42,271. Teachers may be registered in more than one Sector.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Teacher allocations to all schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. The criteria for the allocation of posts are communicated to school managements annually and are available on the Department website. The final staffing position for all schools for the current school year will ultimately not be known until later...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 636 and 637 together. The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools are published annually on the Department's website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing process...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The criteria used for the allocation of teaching posts is published annually on the Department website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing schedule operates in a clear and transparent manner and treats all similar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that my Department has plans to replace the prefabricated accommodation at the school to which she refers. Officials, including members of my Department's technical staff, recently visited the school for the purposes of preparing a building project brief for delivery by a design team. When the project brief is completed, it will be agreed with the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware, children with special educational needs may be enrolled in a mainstream school and attend all mainstream classes and receive additional teaching support through the learning support and/or resource teacher. If they have assessed care needs they may be supported by a special needs assistant. In respect of children who cannot be accommodated in mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In February of this year I announced that a new primary school would be opening in September 2016 in the Drumcondra/Marino (Dublin 1) area as well as in Goatstown/Stillorgan and in Cabra/Phibsborough (Dublin 7). My Department runs an open patronage determination process to decide who will operate the schools. I plan to announce a patronage determination process for these new schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (21 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: To be eligible for a grant, a "student", as defined in Section 14 of the Student Support Act 2011, must demonstrate that he/she has been resident in the State for at least 3 years out of the 5 year period ending on the day before the start of their approved course of study. This requirement takes cognisance of students who wish to take time out to travel or work abroad. Such students can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (21 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Educational Welfare Service (EWS) of Túsla, the Child and Family Agency, is the statutory agency which can assist parents who are experiencing difficulty in securing a school place for their child. The EWS may be able to offer assistance and advice on securing a school placement within the pupil's area. The contact details for the EWS are Educational Welfare Service of the Child and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (21 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the release time arrangements my Department pays for a substitute teacher to be employed by a school to facilitate administrative functions to be undertaken by the teaching principal. Under the current arrangements the number of days that teaching principals may take as release time in each school year ranges between 14 and 22 days depending on the size of the school. Budget 2016 will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Oct 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: Freedom of Information Requests (21 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information as requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Number of Freedom of Information requests received by Department of Education and Skills in 2015 up to 16/10/2015 Number of such where the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request Number of such where the period of consideration was extended by up to four weeks because...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (21 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Professor Brian MacCraith is the chair of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Education Review Group. A report was submitted to my Department by this Group in 2015, the implications of which are currently being considered by my officials.