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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to confirm to the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application from the school in question under the Summer Works Scheme. Commensurate with the level of funding available for the Scheme, applications including that from the school concerned, will be assessed on a top down basis in accordance with the prioritisation criteria outlined in the governing Circular Letter for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Teacher allocations to all schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. The criteria for the allocation of posts are communicated to school managements annually and are available on the Department website. The Deputy will be aware that I have made provision in Budget 2016 for some 2,260 additional teaching posts for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Playgrounds (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that an extension to the first named school referred to in the details supplied by the Deputy was completed in recent years and I understand that all snags were remedied to the school's satisfaction. My Department has since provided a grant to the school to widen footpaths and install ramps and has no record of funding having been allocated to the school and then being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under my Department's Emergency Works Grant Scheme, the school in question applied for a range of works including ramps, railings, automatic front doors, a designated wheelchair car parking spot and widened footpaths to enable a special needs pupil to attend the school. Funding was approved for these works last February. In addition to this, funding for an enlarged classroom and a resource...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department officials continue to work closely with the school authorities to ensure sufficient suitable accommodation is in place for Douglas/Rochestown Educate Together National School for the 2016/2017 school year. In this regard, my Department has recently lodged a planning application to provide additional accommodation for the school. It is envisaged that, subject to planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware, the building project for Douglas Rochestown Educate Together National school is included in the 6 year construction programme that I announced last November. Officials from my Department have worked closely with officials from Cork County Council under the Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of school sites to procure a suitable site for this building...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. The criteria by which SNA...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the policy of my Department is that children with special educational needs, including children with autism, should be included where possible and appropriate in mainstream placements with additional supports provided. In circumstances where children with Special Educational Needs require more specialised interventions, special school or special class places...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school referred to by the Deputy is included on the six year programme announced on 17th November 2015 and is listed to proceed to tender and construction in 2017. A Project Manager and Design Team have been appointed for the project and it is currently at Stage 1 of Architectural Planning, which is the initial sketch design stage. In relation to the question of improved facilities...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: In identifying the requirement for additional school places, my Department uses a Geographical Information System to identify the areas under increased demographic pressure nationwide. The system uses data from the Central Statistics Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Department of Social Protection and information from the Department's own databases. Using this information, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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 students with special educational needs, including autism. It is also the role of the NCSE to make appropriate arrangements to establish special classes in schools in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Responsibility for the payment of insurance to cover employers and public liability, and property damage rests with the Board of Management of primary schools, voluntary secondary schools and with the ETBs in respect of schools operated by them. The cost of insurance is met from the grants paid by my Department and in the case of the ETBs from the annual non-pay allocation. With regard to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Students in third-level institutions experiencing exceptional financial need can apply for support under the Student Assistance Fund. This Fund assists students, in a sensitive and compassionate manner, who might otherwise be unable to continue their third level studies due to their financial circumstances. Details of this fund are available for the Access Office in the third level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department was recently advised by Kilkenny and Carlow ETB that in light of the number of students that have enrolled for the school year 2016/17 and due to the declining enrolments over a number of years, that the ETB will not be proceeding with the enrolment of new first year students in Muine Bheag Vocational School for the coming school year, 2016-17. The ETB propose that all of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Data (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The main grades at the Department concerned with the delivery of services to the Irish speaking community are in the areas of school inspections and the provision of educational psychological services by the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) to schools in Gaeltacht areas and the Gaelscoileanna. Currently there are staff at the grades of school inspector and educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Sign Language (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that Section 2 of the Official Languages Act 2003 states that "the official languages" of the State are (a) the Irish language (being the national language and the first official language) and (b) the English language (being a second official language) as specified in Article 8 of the Constitution. I can also advise the Deputy, however, that Irish Sign language...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no record of receiving an application from the school to which he refers under the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) 2016 and 2017. While the school did not apply for any works under the recent SWS, it will be open to the school, if it so decides, to make an application under a future scheme. The Circular Letter (0055/2015) relating to the terms...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The application from the school to which the Deputy refers is currently under consideration in the context of additional information requested and recently received. The Department will be in contact with the school directly when a decision has been taken in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tionscadail Tógála Scoileanna (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Tá Scoil na bhForbacha sna céimeanna deiridh den phróiseas tairisceana le haghaidh Scoil nua 8 Seomra Ranga a chur ar fáil agus an foirgneamh atá ann faoi láthair a leagan. Cuireadh tuarascáil tairisceana don togra faoi bhráid na Roinne le déanaí agus tá measúnú á dhéanamh uirthi faoi láthair. Nuair a bheidh...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 629 and 630 together. My Department was advised by Kilkenny and Carlow ETB that in light of the number of students that have enrolled for the school year 2016/17 and due to the declining enrolments over a number of years, that the ETB will not be proceeding with the enrolment of new first year students in Muine Bheag Vocational School for the coming school...