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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Waiting Times (25 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland that the student referred to by the Deputy has had his application assessed and he has been awarded a grant for the 2015-16 academic year. An award letter issued to the student on 11th November 2015. If an individual applicant considers that she/he has been unjustly refused a student grant or that the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (25 Nov 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: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (25 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of the Budget 2012 decisions, the number of pupils required to gain and retain a classroom teaching post in small primary schools was gradually increased between September 2012 and September 2014, as set out in the following table. The staffing arrangements for primary schools for the 2015/16 school year are set out in Department Circular 0005/2015 which is available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (25 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The policy on school patronage divesting is to use existing educational infrastructure to enable diversity of provision in an area where there is no demographic imperative to establish a new school. This was the approach recommended in the report of the Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary School Sector. Arising from the Forum's report, a number of areas...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Nov 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 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, which is set out in my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (25 Nov 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 the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: With regard to the fee-charging Protestant schools, an arrangement exists whereby funding is provided by my Department to the Secondary Education Committee (SEC), an organisation run by the churches involved in managing the Protestant secondary schools. The SEC then disburses funds to the Protestant fee-charging schools on behalf of pupils who would otherwise have difficulty with the cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The first school referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of the tender process. My Department is currently awaiting receipt of the Supplementary Tender Report from the Design Team. Subject to no issues arising it is envisaged the project will proceed to site very shortly thereafter. The second school is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning, Stage 2B Detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 192 and 193 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that my position remains as set out in my PQ response to you of 3rd November 2015 and my further written correspondence to you on 19th November 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has recently received a business case from Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board to establish an education and training facility in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. This business case is currently being examined.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has considered primary school capacity in Navan and wishes to advise the Deputy that there is sufficient capacity between the schools in Navan to meet current and anticipated demand for primary school places. The main focus of my Department's capital investment programme will remain on ensuring that every child has access to a physical school place. This may result in some...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Seven hundred and thirty pupils approximately are expected to apply for a first year place in the post-primary schools in Navan each year for the years 2016–2018. This number is expected to increase slightly to seven hundred and fifty pupils in the year 2019. The information available to the Department in respect of the forthcoming year, 2016/17 is that all pupils who have applied...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 197 to 204, inclusive, together. The number of teachers who availed of career breaks, resigned or retired in the schools on the payroll of my Department referred to by the Deputy are contained in the table below. Ó Fiaich College Dundalk is an Education and Training Board (ETB) school. ETB's employ and sanction leave for their own staff and, accordingly,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is the responsibility of the managerial authority of each individual school to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998. There is no requirement on those schools that have more applicants than places available to report to my Department in relation to same. Accordingly the data requested by the Deputy is not available within my Department. However, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, I announced details on 17th November last, of the major school building projects that are scheduled to proceed to construction over the next six years, as part of the Government's €2.8 billion capital investment programme. The Deputy will be aware that a project for the school to which he refers was included in this announcement. Information in respect...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The supplementary panel...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In relation to school admissions, parents can choose which school to apply to and where the school has places available the pupil should be admitted. However, in schools where there are more applicants than places available a selection process may be necessary. This selection process and the enrolment policy on which it is based must be non-discriminatory and must be applied fairly in respect...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Teachers' Common Basic Scale and allowances available to newly employed teachers from 2010 onwards are set out in the attached table. Not all of the allowances listed are available to every teacher as entitlement is based on the qualifications held by the individual and/or the nature of the post for which they were employed. Since the beginning of the financial crisis, there has been a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Eligibility (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The scope of works required at the school to which the Deputy refers is outside the terms of my Department's Emergency Works Grant Scheme. The works are appropriate for consideration under my Department's Summer Works Scheme and the school was advised accordingly. In addition to this, the minor works grant, which was recently paid, can be used by the school to address some of the priority works.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware the school in question was established on 1 September 2011 following the amalgamation of a DEIS post-primary school and Non DEIS post-primary school. In line with all such amalgamations, the new school continues to receive the current level of supports in respect of the number of eligible pupils from the former DEIS school until that pupil cohort have left the school....