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- Written Answers — Third Level Funding: Third Level Funding (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: Details of capital and recurrent funding provided to Carlow Institute of Technology and Waterford Institute of Technology for the past ten years are set out in the attached document. In June 1996, the Government approved, in principle, the recommendations of the steering committee on the future development of higher education, as a benchmark for future planning in the sector. The steering...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The correspondence referred to by the Deputy is in respect of a person working as a personal assistant for a student with autism attending Athlone Institute of Technology. Personal assistants are utilised within third level colleges for certain classes of students with disabilities, mainly those with physical or mobility difficulties. The main source of funding for personal assistants is the...
- Written Answers — Higher Education: Higher Education (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I am not aware of proposals for the co-operation of certain third level institutions to establish a facility in Cherry Orchard. However, I share the Deputy's concern on the need to promote widest possible participation in the third level sector, and a number of measures have been put in place to address this, including the following: first, the establishment of the National Office for Equity...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The mainstream staffing of a primary school is determined by applying the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year to a staffing schedule, agreed between my Department and the education partners. The system for allocating teachers to primary schools is based on ensuring an overall maximum class of 29 in each school. Where some classes in a school have class sizes of...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The project at the school to which the Deputy refers has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria, and the project is being considered in the context of the school buildings and modernisation programme. The Deputy will be aware that I have made a number of announcements with regard to the 2005 school building programme since the beginning of the year. Earlier...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The mainstream staffing of a primary school is determined by applying the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year to a staffing schedule, agreed between my Department and the education partners. The system for allocating teachers to primary schools is based on ensuring an overall maximum class of 29 in each school. Where some classes in a school have class sizes of...
- Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The work of the educational psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service includes casework with individual children. This may include individual psychometric assessment, provision of advice and recommendations to teachers and parents on how best to meet the child's needs and, occasionally, some short-term counselling support. Counselling would be used for less serious...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The system for allocating teachers to primary schools is based on ensuring an overall maximum class of 29 in each class. Where some classes in a school have class sizes of greater than 29, it is generally it has been decided at local level to use their teaching resources to have smaller numbers in other classes. Significant improvements have been made in this area in recent years. The average...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The building project for the school to which the Deputy referred is at an early stage of architectural planning. I have made several announcements on the 2005 school building programme since the beginning of the year, which included details of 122 major school building projects countrywide which will prepare tenders and move to construction during the next 12 to 15 months; 192 projects to be...
- Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: Provision of individual psychological assessments is part of the work of the educational psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service. The psychologists do not keep waiting lists of children requiring assessment. School authorities refer children for assessment and discuss the relative urgency of each case during the psychologist's visits. This allows the psychologists to...
- Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: Provision of individual psychological assessments is part of the work of the educational psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS. The psychologists do not keep waiting lists of children requiring assessment in the sense of lists of names that are dealt with in chronological order. School authorities refer children for assessment and discuss the relative urgency...
- Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The work of the educational psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, includes casework with individual children. This may involve individual psychometric assessment, provision of advice and recommendations to teachers and parents on meeting the child's needs and occasionally some short term counselling support. Counselling would be in the context of less serious...
- 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, has identified a site which could provide for the long term accommodation needs of the school referred to by the Deputy. However, the building of a new school on a greenfield site is only one option being considered by my Department. A second option,...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together. The mainstream staffing of a primary school is determined by applying the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year to a staffing schedule, agreed between my Department and the education partners. In accordance with the staffing schedule, the staffing of the school referred to by the Deputy for the 2004-05 school...
- Written Answers — State Property: State Property (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The Dáil Select Committee on Education and Science concluded Committee Stage of the Grangegorman Development Agency Bill on 16 December 2004. In February 2005 I received correspondence from the Dublin Inner City Partnership regarding its wish to be represented on the agency. The purpose of this Bill is to establish an agency whose function, in the first instance, is to prepare a strategic...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The mainstream staffing of a primary school is determined by applying the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year to a staffing schedule agreed between my Department and the education partners. The system for allocating teachers to primary schools is based on ensuring an overall maximum class of 29 in each school. Where some classes in a school have class sizes of...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Mar 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that 23.3 hours special needs assistant support per week has been sanctioned for the pupil in question. A letter confirming this issued to the school authorities on 18 March 2005.
- Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (24 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 the 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 — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (12 Apr 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 909 and 795 together. My Department has provided annual funding of â¬63,500 to the Dyslexia Association of Ireland since 1999. I understand this funding has helped the association to operate an information service for members and the public. In addition, it is understood that part of this funding has assisted in meeting the costs associated with the...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (12 Apr 2005)
Mary Hanafin: In the context of the UN resolution referred to by the Deputy, my Department funded the New Releases Project. This project, which addressed themes related to the UN Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World, was conducted on a North-South basis. In 2003, the project held creative medium competitions for secondary and primary schools, North and South. The...