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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I am informed by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) that, in preparation for the 2013/2014 Academic year, both the online application system and the application assessment process are being further developed to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency and respond to experiences from year 1. The online application system has opened on May 20th a number of weeks earlier than for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 349 and 362 together. The Deputy will be aware of this Government's ongoing commitment to ensuring that all children with special educational needs, including children with Down syndrome, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs. The policy of my Department is to secure the maximum possible level of inclusion of students with special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The schools to which the Deputy refers are among a list of schools that are planned to be delivered as part of Bundle 5 of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) schools building programme. This bundle is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016 on suitable sites. It is envisaged that construction of this Bundle of school projects will begin approximately eighteen months prior to this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm for the Deputy that City of Dublin VEC commissioned an external review of SUSI, to identify the causes of the difficulties and to set out a specific programme of action to address them, so as to ensure that similar difficulties and delays will not be experienced for 2013/14. The Review examined the business systems and processes deployed by SUSI and assessed their adequacy in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that the establishment of a network of autism-specific special classes in schools across the country to cater for children with autism has been a key educational priority in recent years. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community Issues (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Unemployment in the Traveller community is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. With regard to formal education qualifications among the Traveller community, this is addressed in the policy document on Traveller education - the Report and Recommendations for a Traveller Education Strategy. The focus of both current and future provision is on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: University Status Review (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: There are no specified procedures in relation to the way a complaint may be made to the Minister contending that the functions of a university are being performed in a manner which prima facie constitutes a breach of the laws, statutes or ordinances applicable to the university. The Universities Act 1997 does not prescribe how the Minister should exercise his function under Section 20 to form...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Courses Availability (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand that the course in question is run only on the LIT Tipperary Clonmel campus. The CAO have received 101 applications for this course in the forthcoming academic year 2013/14. I have sought information on the direct cost of educating students on this course in the LIT Tipperary Clonmel Campus from the HEA and the information will be forwarded to the Deputy when it is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Staff (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: This data is not available in my Department. I have asked the Higher Education Authority to request the information sought by the deputy from Limerick Institute of Technology. It will be forwarded as soon as it has been made available to me.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: A new National Plan for Equity of Access to Higher Education (2014-2019) is currently being prepared by the National Access Office for my Department. The findings of the School Completers - What's Next report will be considered in the context of this new Access Plan.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers.Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. The Stage 2(b) (Detailed Design) is nearing completion. Due to competing demands on my Department's capital budget, imposed by the need to prioritise the limited funding available for the provision of additional school accommodation to meet increasing demographic...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies Accounts (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Under the provisions of the 2009 'Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies' a number of bodies under the aegis of my Department are required to lay their Accounts before the House of the Oireachtas. A list of these bodies are: - Education Finance Board (EFB); - FÁS; - Grangegorman Development Agency; - Higher Education Authority; - National Council for Curriculum and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Issues (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Grangegorman Development Agency working with the Employment and Training Co-ordinator and the Local Labour and Learning Forum has developed and implemented a Grangegorman Employment Charter. The aim of the Charter is to ensure that the local community benefits from employment opportunities that may arise from the Grangegorman project. The Charter sets out what is required of Contractors...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the July Education Programme is available to all special schools and mainstream primary schools with special classes catering for children with autism who choose to extend their education services through the month of July. My Department also provides for a July Programme for pupils with a severe/profound general learning disability. Where school based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The salary of the person referred to by the Deputy has been adjusted and arrears owed will issue on 6 June 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland that in the case of the student referred to by the Deputy, her student grant application was re-appealed to the appeals officer in SUSI on 9 of May 2013. On that basis, the application is currently being reassessed and the student will be notified directly by SUSI of the outcome. Where an appeal is turned...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions Issues (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Third level institutions are autonomous bodies and my Department has no function in their operational management, including matters relating to the leave arrangements of college staff. The information requested by the Deputy is therefore not available in my Department or the Higher Education Authority (HEA). My Department receives data on a quarterly basis in relation to the whole time...