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Written Answers — Private Colleges Regulation: Private Colleges Regulation (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department does not regulate provision in private colleges, except in so far as a limited range of functions are concerned. These include: recognition of third level courses approved by the Higher Education and Training Awards Council for purposes of the student support schemes; approval of courses which comply with a code of standards for purposes of the third level tax relief scheme;...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 584 and 585 together. The application for additional accommodation at the school to which the Deputy refers is being examined in the school planning section of my Department. This process involves the consideration of all relevant factors, including enrolment and demographic trends in the area and the capacity of any other schools in the area to meet the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The property management section of the OPW which acts on behalf of my Department with regard to site acquisitions generally is exploring the possibility of acquiring a site for the provision of a new school for the Ballygarvan parish. When a site has been procured, the project will be progressed in the context of the school building and modernisation programme 2005-09. It is not possible to...

Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has not received any notification that the person referred to by the Deputy has been refused enrolment to a second level school. Officials from my Department have contacted the National Educational Welfare Board, NEWB, the statutory agency which can assist parents who are experiencing difficulty in securing a school place for their child. I understand that the NEWB has not...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: An application for refurbishment and extension has been received from the school authority. When a decision is made on how best to provide for the accommodation needs of the school, the project will be progressed in the context of the school buildings and modernisation programme 2005-09. The replacement of windows is appropriate for consideration under the summer works scheme, SWS. While an...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The property management section of the Office of Public Works which acts on behalf of my Department with regard to site acquisitions generally is continuing to explore the possibility of acquiring a site for the school referred to by the Deputy. The technical suitability of a number of site proposals is being assessed.

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The following is the information sought by the Deputy. The Residential Institutions Redress Board: 11 appointments, which include a chairperson who is a High Court judge and paid a salary from the Courts Service. The other board members are paid a daily rate of €825 with an upper remuneration ceiling of €149,184 per annum. The Residential Institutions Review Committee: four appointments,...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: It is expected that the construction of the PE hall at the school to which the Deputy refers will be completed later this year. This PE hall is one of a number of such projects included in my Department's 2004 school building programme as part of a joint initiative to develop community sports facilities in drugs task force areas. Preliminary discussions have taken place on the proposed...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: In the light of the reality that pupils in the high incidence disability categories of mild and borderline mild general learning disability and dyslexia are distributed throughout the education system, my Department, in consultation with educational interests, developed a general model of resource teacher allocation to schools to support students in these disability categories. This model...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy may be aware that the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, which was established recently and which has been operational since 1 January 2005 is responsible for processing applications for special educational needs, SEN, supports. I understand that the school has submitted an application for special educational needs supports to the special education needs organiser, SENO,...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The application from the school referred to is at an early stage of architectural planning. The project was reassessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria which were revised following consultation with the education partners last year. The reassessment resulted in the project being prioritised as a band 3, rather than a band 4 project as had been assigned under the 2004...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: An application for resource teaching support was received for the pupil referred to by the Deputy. Additional information was also submitted at a later date in support of the application. The application was considered and it was determined that the pupil's special educational needs, SEN, appear to be within the high incidence category. The school has the services of a shared learning support...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: For the purposes of post-primary education provision, the country is divided into catchment areas. Under the terms of the school transport scheme, a pupil is eligible for school transport if he or she resides 4.8 kilometres or more from the post-primary centre in the catchment area in which he or she lives. Eligible pupils who wish to attend a post-primary centre other than the centre serving...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy has the services of two full-time learning support teachers, two full-time resource teachers and one shared resource teacher. The position with regard to the family referred to by the Deputy is that 3.5 hours resource teaching were sanctioned for one of the children on 4 February 2005. With regard to the application for resource teaching hours for the...

Written Answers — Education Schemes: Education Schemes (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The McIver report on the post-leaving certificate review was commissioned by my Department to examine the sector and make recommendations regarding the organisational, support, development, technical and administrative structures and resources required in schools and colleges with large-scale post-leaving certificate, PLC, provision, having regard to good practice in related areas across the...

Written Answers — Education Schemes: Education Schemes (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: In the 2004-05 academic year, 28,500 PLC places were approved in schools and colleges throughout the country. The approval process for PLC places for the academic year 2005-06 will take account of enrolment trends, applications from VECs, schools and colleges for course approval and the totality of demands for courses and teaching resources across the system.

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: While my Department does not operate a specific national scheme for the provision of art therapy, it supports a range of programmes which target additional resources at pupils from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds to facilitate their full participation in the education system. A total of 82 projects — 112 post-primary schools and 300 primary schools — participate in the school...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department is moving towards a model of devolving the responsibility for building projects to school management authorities, where appropriate. The devolving of funding to local level will accommodate school authorities to have responsibility and ownership of their building projects and assist in moving projects in a specific timeframe through the design process to tender action and...

Written Answers — Free Fees Initiative: Free Fees Initiative (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The main conditions of my Department's free fees initiative are that students must be first time undergraduates and hold EU nationality or official refugee status and have been ordinarily resident in an EU member state for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level course. Official refugees are eligible on the same residency terms as Irish nationals....

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (22 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: As Minister, I have responsibility for the performance of the functions of my Department in accordance with section 3 of the Public Service Management Act 1997. However, under section 4(1) of the Act, responsibility and accountability may be delegated to the Secretary General or Head of the Department to manage the Department's day-to-day business, to implement and monitor Government policies...