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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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. Full details of the scheme are available from their website: www.examinations.ie/candidates/reasonableaccommodations. In view of this I have forwarded...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Apr 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 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 support is allocated to pupils is set...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The mechanism to apply for funding for the type of works to which the Deputy refers is the Summer Works Scheme. My Department has no record of an application from the school in question under the Summer Works Scheme 2016/17. The school may use its minor works grant to carry out the works in full or on a phased basis as that grant permits if the school considers them to be a priority.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 657 and 658 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major building project for the school to which the Deputy refers is at an advanced stage of architectural planning – Stage 2b, which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire Cert, Disability Access Cert and the preparation of Tender Documents. All relevant statutory approvals have been obtained and the Design Team are currently working on the preparation of the...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school to which he refers has submitted an application for additional classroom accommodation. A decision on the application will be conveyed to the school authority as soon as the assessment process has been completed.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy may be aware that applications for the 2016 and 2017 Summer Works Scheme (SWS) closed on 2nd December last. Commensurate with the level of funding available for the Scheme, applications are being assessed on a top down basis in accordance with the prioritisation criteria outlined in the governing Circular Letter for the Scheme. This Circular Letter (0055/2015), is available on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Full details of the process for new school establishment are published on my Department's website. New schools are established to meet demographic demand. Once the Department has identified the need for a new school, its location and projected enrolment level, a process is conducted to allow for different patrons/bodies to be considered as the patron of the new school. In general, the...

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

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department submitted a planning application for the school to which the Deputy refers to the Planning Authority in June 2015 and a decision to grant was received in February 2016 from the Planning Authority. An appeal of this decision to grant was lodged to An Bord Pleanála on 1st March by a third party. A response to the appeal was submitted by the Department to ABP on 24th...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the terms of the student grant scheme, my Department provides maintenance grants to undergraduate students pursuing approved third level courses in the State or in other E.U. Member States. Applicants are required to meet the prescribed conditions of funding including those which relate to nationality, residency, approved course, previous academic attainment and means. If an individual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to oversee the use of the cash contributions of up to €110 million, pledged by the religious congregations, to support the needs of survivors of institutional child abuse. As Caranua has statutory responsibility, I...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The enrolment of a child to a school is a matter, in the first instance, for the parents of the child and the Board of Management of a school. However, parents/guardians who may need advice or are experiencing difficulties in locating a school placement should contact their local Special Educational Needs Organiser (SENO) who can assist in identifying an appropriate educational placement for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The developer has confirmed that a project manager and architect have been appointed to oversee the development of the sports facilities and the appointment of other design team members is underway. Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board have arranged a meeting with the developer to discuss the formulation of preliminary designs based on the standard requirements for...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school referred to has recently applied to my Department for capital funding to replace existing prefabs and to provide four additional Special Education rooms and a General Purpose room. The application is currently being considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority once the assessment process is completed. The school in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (6 Apr 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 the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Pending the development of a new Resource Teaching allocation model schools, I held a number of meetings with Down Syndrome Ireland and with parents of children with Down syndrome last year. Following these discussions, I agreed to review the educational provision for children with Down syndrome, who are in the Mild General Learning Disability category and who do not qualify for Low...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 676, 722, 729 together. As a consequence of the financial crisis, there was a need to enact a number of measures to reduce public expenditure so as to stabilise the country's public finances. The previous Government decided to reduce the salaries and allowances payable to all new entrants to public service recruitment grades (including teachers) by 10%...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (6 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have an assessment carried out by a member of the panel of...