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Written Answers — Drugs Awareness Campaigns: Drugs Awareness Campaigns (1 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Social Personal and Health Education (SPHE) forms a mandatory part of curriculum provision in primary schools and in junior cycle. The overall aim is to help develop students' confidence and self esteem, and promote the skills for living, for responsible decision making, and for mental, physical and emotional health and well-being. The junior cycle syllabus for SPHE includes a specific module...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (1 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Financial assistance is available to students under the maintenance grant schemes, which are administered by the local authorities and Vocational Education Committees on behalf of my Department. Students who are entering approved courses for the first time are eligible for grants where they satisfy the relevant conditions as to age, residence, means, nationality and previous academic...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (1 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I do not have a role in the administration of individual cases in FÁS. The case referred to by the Deputy is a day-to-day matter for FÁS as part of its responsibilities under the Labour Services Act, 1987 as amended.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (1 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Where persons are entitled to a social welfare payment from before the start of a FÁS training course but their eligibility is not determined until after they have completed the course, a retrospective payment of the training allowance for the duration of the training course will be made.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (1 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is currently liaising with the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) in the context of the accommodation to be provided for education purposes within the proposed new National Children's Hospital of Ireland.

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (1 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The data requested by the Deputy on student enrolments are provided in the tables. The data on post-primary students in County Meath are extracted from the returns made by schools to my Department each year as at 30th September. The enrolment figures provided exclude Post Leaving Certificate(PLC) and CoreVTOS students. The data on primary students in County Meath are extracted from the...

Written Answers — Educational Projects: Educational Projects (1 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The provision of an Early Start pre-school for Traveller children would be contrary to the recommendations set out in the 2006 Traveller Education Strategy. This strategy built on earlier reports, including the 1995 Task Force on the Travelling Community which specifically recommended the end of segregated provision at all levels of the Education system. This includes the pre-school...

Written Answers — Early School Leavers: Early School Leavers (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Working Group developing a training and employment Framework for young persons and early school leavers is chaired by the Director of Curriculum and Quality Assurance at FÁS. The Group comprises representatives from all of the relevant Divisions within FÁS including its Employment, Community, Training and Service to Business Divisions, as well as its Planning and Research Unit and...

Written Answers — Job Initiatives: Job Initiatives (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Government is committed to tackling unemployment, including youth unemployment. In successive budgets, we have allocated substantial additional resources to provide increased training, education and work experience places for the unemployed. As a result, my Department will provide almost 190,000 training, education and work experience places this year specifically for the unemployed....

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: As Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills I do not have a role in the administration of individual cases. The administration of individual cases is a day-to-day matter for FÁS as part of its responsibility under the Labour Services Act 1987.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I met with a delegation from the Salesian College College,Pallaskenery, Co. Limerick on 16th June. The matters discussed are currently under consideration and I will be glad to communicate with the Deputy when there are further developments in the matter.

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department generally only holds records on those former residents of Industrial & Reformatory Schools that were placed there by way of a Court hearing. There are many other institutions, some of which are listed on the Schedule to the Redress Act, in respect of which my Department had no invovlement and, as a consequence, would not maintain any...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The responsibility for day to day management of schools is at local school level. Schools are required to take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of pupils and to participate in supervising pupils when the pupils are on the school premises, during school time and/or on school activities. In accordance with the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989, it is the...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Under the terms of the 2002 Indemnity Agreement, eighteen Congregations agreed to make a contribution of €128 million towards the cost of the Redress Scheme. This sum was broken down as follows: Property Transfers €76.86m; Cash Contribution €41.14m; Provision of Counselling Services €10.00m. In actual terms, whilst the overall figure of €128 million has not altered, the form in...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: As the Deputy will be aware, 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 to schools to support children with special needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. I have arranged for the...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The assessment of means under my Department's third level student maintenance grant schemes is based on gross income from all sources, with specified social welfare and health service executive payments being excluded from the calculation. For student grants purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances either as students dependent on parents or a legal guardian, or as...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that details of 1490 successful applicants under the current Summer Works Scheme were announced on 19 April, 2010 and published on my Department's website, www.education.ie. Eight applications were received from schools in the Dublin 15 area and six of these were successful. I set out below a list of successful and unsuccessful applications under the...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Fingal County Council have advised that the negotiations in relation to the acquisition of a site for the school in question have concluded. My Department, as sought by the local authority, has arranged to provide funding to the Council to enable the transaction to be completed which is being acquired under the Fingal Model Agreement. Due to the commercial sensitivities relating to site...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Forward Planning Section of my Department is in the process of carrying out detailed analysis of over 40 identified locations of highest population growth in order to identify the school accommodation requirements up to and including the school year 2014/2015. Given the increase in the birth rate in recent years the initial focus of this analysis is on primary school accommodation...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Information in respect of the current school building programme along with all assessed applications for major capital works, is available on my Department's website at www.education.ie. The priority attaching to individual projects is determined by published prioritisation criteria, which were formulated following consultation with the Education Partners. There are four band ratings under...