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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The project to which the Deputy refers has been tendered. An assessment of the Tender Report is at an advanced stage in the Department. The project has been devolved for delivery to the Kildare and Wicklow Education Training Board and contact will be made with it directly with regard to the next steps in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The matter raised by the Deputy is covered by the Apprenticeship Rules which are administered by SOLAS. Under these rules a person wishing to register as a motor mechanic apprentice must pass the Ishihara colour blindness test. There are arrangements in place for an individual who may pass a test with the use of corrective lenses. Details of these arrangements are available directly from SOLAS.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (26 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major building project for St. Patrick's Special School, Enniscorthy, is at an advanced stage of architectural planning - Stage 2(b),which includes the applications for the Fire Certificate and Disability Access Certificate and the preparation of Tender Documents. Planning permission has been secured. The school building project for this school was included on the 2012/16 five year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, requires school management authorities in their role as employers to ensure the safety and health of their employees. Circular Letter M18/99 "Guidelines on Violence in Schools" issued by my Department outlines the policy to be adopted in schools where incidents of assaults on teachers occur. This Circular draws the attention of School...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy have made an application under my Department's 2016 Summer Works Scheme for the works in question. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) published a white paper for public consultation on draft policy and criteria for the validation of education and training programmes in December 2015. The consultation period for this white paper closed in February 2016. QQI is currently finalising the new policies and criteria for validation and these will be published in the coming months. QQI...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school to which the Deputy refers applied for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme (EWG) for repairs to a boundary wall. As the scope of works was considered to be outside the terms of this scheme, the application was refused. It is open to the school to use their Minor Works Grant for the works in question.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (26 Apr 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 a quantum of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. Where children have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: In 2012 a public service-wide review of allowances was carried out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. As a result of the review, qualification allowances were abolished with effect from 1st February 2012. Department of Education and Skills Circular 0008/2013 outlined the effect of this decision on teachers.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that a building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is included on my Department's 6 Year Construction Programme, due to go to construction in 2017. I wish to advise the Deputy that when the acquisition by the Patron of the new site for the school in question is finalised, it is intended that the building project will be progressed through the Architectural...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has considered a proposal made by Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim Education and Training Board to provide Irish-medium education at second level through establishing an Aonad in an existing school in County Sligo. My Department has advised that the proposal needs to be re-examined by the ETB to address a number of issues that could assist in facilitating delivery of Irish-medium...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: This Department provides capitation to schools which can be used for a number of purposes. It is normally used for mainstream education whether at primary or post primary. Schools would have discretion in relation to the funds. If a school chooses to become involved in the Foroige Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, it could allocate some of its capitation funding to this initiative. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Land Transfers (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Officials in my Department have recently forwarded to Meath County Council a valuation report in respect of the portion of land to which the Deputy refers. Department officials will liaise further with officials in Meath County Council in respect of the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the provisions of the Education Act 1998, the board of management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school. Schools are required to take all reasonable precautions to provide training for teachers to ensure the safety and welfare of their pupils. In recognition of the responsibility which the Education Act has imposed on Boards of Management and the increasingly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department will respond to her directly in the coming days with the details of the schools concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school, referred to, submitted a Major Capital Application in 1998 which was not progressed however at that time. It is open to the school in question to submit a revised Major Capital Application, which is available on my Departments website at www.education.ie., for consideration by my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 387, 395, 408 and 419 together. I can confirm to the Deputy that in 2014 my Department acquired 10 acres of land in the Claregalway area to provide for educational purposes. This is in addition to lands acquired in the area by the GRETB (Galway Roscommon Education & Training Board). A project for the school referred to is included in the 6 year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (26 Apr 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) are recruited specifically to assist in the care of pupils with disabilities, in an educational context. They may be appointed to a special school or a mainstream national school to assist school authorities in making suitable provision for a pupil or pupils with special care needs arising from a disability. The first priority is that the care needs of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (26 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. Administrative and operational issues such as those raised in the Deputy's question are day to day matters that are the responsibility of Caranua itself and I have no role in those matters. I have arranged to have the...