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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy may be aware that the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, which has been operational since 1 January 2005, is responsible for processing applications for special educational needs, SEN, supports. Some 71 special educational needs organisers, SENOs, have been recruited throughout the country and will be a focal point of contact for schools and parents. My Department...

Written Answers — School Discipline: School Discipline (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has provided guidelines to boards of management to assist them in discharging their obligations in the area of school discipline. These guidelines, which issued in 1991, were drawn up following consultation with representatives of management, teachers and parents, and are sufficiently flexible to allow each school authority to adapt them to suit the particular needs of the...

Written Answers — Bullying in Schools: Bullying in Schools (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department issued guidelines on countering bullying behaviour to all primary and post-primary schools in 1993. The purpose of the guidelines is to assist schools in devising school-based measures to prevent and deal with instances of bullying behaviour and to increase awareness of the problem among school management authorities, staff, pupils and parents. The guidelines remind school...

Written Answers — School Supervision: School Supervision (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Sections 14, 15 and 23 of the Education Act 1998 assigns each board of management and principal teacher responsibility for the day-to-day management of schools at both primary and post-primary level. Principals should organise supervision for the order and general behaviour of pupils during school hours. In particular, they should organise and participate in the effective supervision of the...

Written Answers — Linguistic Institute of Ireland: Linguistic Institute of Ireland (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 258 to 260, inclusive, together. At an extraordinary general meeting of Institiúd Teangealaíochta Éireann, held on 18 July 2003, the company agreed to initiate a process of voluntary liquidation. This decision was a matter for the members in accordance with the memorandum and articles of association and relevant company law. I understand that a meeting of...

Written Answers — Mobile Telephony: Mobile Telephony (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware that the drafting of planning and development regulations is a matter for the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government and the siting of individual mobile phone masts is a matter for the relevant planning authority. The issue referred to in the details supplied by the Deputy is a matter for the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources....

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The decision on eligibility for third level grants is a matter for the relevant local authority or VEC. These bodies do not refer individual applications to my Department except in exceptional cases, where, for example, advice or instruction regarding a particular clause in the relevant scheme is desired. It appears that no such advice or instruction has, to date, been sought in the case of...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Arising from the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001, a part-time fully qualified teacher employed for the full school year to provide teaching for a specified number of hours during each week, may be awarded a pro rata contract. A pro rata contract will normally run from 1 September to 31 August. A letter has recently issued from my Department to the VEC concerned confirming...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The property management section of the OPW, which acts on behalf of my Department in relation to site acquisitions is currently in negotiations regarding the acquisition of a site for the provision of a new primary school at Mell, Drogheda, County Louth. The Department will keep the school authority informed of developments.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question currently has the services of a shared learning support teacher post and a shared resource teacher post, supporting a total enrolment of 66 pupils. At the moment the special educational needs of the pupil concerned are being met from within these resources.

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The Youth Work Act 2001 provides a legal framework for the provision of youth work programmes and services to be organised by the Minister for Education and Science, the vocational education committees and national and regional youth work organisations. Section 1 of the Act provides for sections to be commenced at different stages. Sections 2 to 7, inclusive, 17, 18 and 24 have been commenced...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department funds four maintenance grant schemes for third level and further education students. These are the higher education grants scheme, the vocational education committees' scholarships scheme, the third level maintenance grants scheme for trainees and the maintenance grants scheme for students attending post-leaving certificate courses. The higher education grants scheme is...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Any time.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: As part of a review of all projects for the 2005 capital programme, applications for capital funding from the Gaelscoileanna in Wicklow town and Arklow were assessed against the published prioritisation criteria for large-scale building projects which were revised last year following consultation with the education partners. Under this review all projects were assigned a band rating and the...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Under my Department's higher education grant schemes, maintenance grants are available to eligible students pursuing approved undergraduate courses in other EU member states, including Spain. In general, approved courses are those pursued in a third level institution, which is maintained or assisted by recurrent grants from public funds. Students attending approved courses in other EU member...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The property management section of the Office of Public Works, which acts on behalf of my Department in relation 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 potential sites is being assessed at present and I expect that my Department and the Office of Public...

Written Answers — Physical Education Facilities: Physical Education Facilities (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: At second level, while physical education is not a mandatory subject, it should form part of the curriculum. The programme that each school plans and delivers should be based on the Department's approved syllabuses and the teaching hours should be registered on the school timetable. The time recommended for physical education is two hours per week. The phasing in of a revised syllabus at...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: In April 2000, the management committee of the national educational psychological service, NEPS, prepared a development plan, which recommended that each newly appointed cohort of psychologists should be divided among the regions on a pro rata basis, related to the projected student numbers in each region. On this basis, it was envisaged that ultimately five psychologists would be needed in...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The person in question retired from teaching on 31 July 1996 and was awarded a pension and lump sum under the secondary teachers' superannuation scheme. His benefits were calculated on his reckonable pensionable service of 28 years and 136 days and on his retiring pensionable pay consisting of the maximum point of the common basic salary scale for teachers together with allowances in respect...

Written Answers — Third Level Staffing: Third Level Staffing (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The qualification criteria for the appointment of academic staff is a matter for each higher education institution, and as such I have no role in these matters.