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Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: This building project was identified from the outset as a two-stage process. The Department has requirements in respect of architectural planning, planning permission, the design of school buildings to meet planning needs and drawing up the detailed design before going to tender. Anyone embarking on a building project would do likewise. Planning permission for the building in question was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, the review of the DEIS programme is currently underway and it is my intention that a New Action Plan Educational Inclusion will be published by the end of this year. The current DEIS Action Plan, was published in 2005 and now provides support to 836 schools serving a total of 169,500 pupils. The review is looking at all aspects of DEIS, including the identification...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of a Category 3 application for mechanical works under the Summer Works Scheme (2016-2017) from the school to which he refers. Valid SWS (2016-2017) applications from schools in respect of Categories 3 to 10 that were not reached under round one approvals announced on 28th April last, will, subject to the overall availability of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of a Category 6 application for roof works under the Summer Works Scheme (2016-2017) from the school to which he refers. Valid SWS (2016-2017) applications from schools in respect of Categories 3 to 10 that were not reached under round one approvals announced on 28th April last, will, subject to the overall availability of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: The supplementary panel application process for eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers for the 2016/17 school year is set out in Circular 0058/2015 which is available on my Department's website. Since 2006, the Teaching Council is the body with statutory responsibility and authority for regulation of the teaching profession, including the registration of teachers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) is responsible for processing applications from schools for special needs assistants (SNA) supports. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in making recommendations for support. The criteria for the provision of SNA support...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) is responsible for processing applications from schools for special needs assistants (SNA) supports. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in making recommendations for support, which are set out in my Department's Circular...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department's focus in recent years has been on prioritising the funding available for the provision of essential classroom accommodation to meet demographic need. As the Deputy will be aware, due to the competing demands on my Department's capital budget imposed by the need to prioritise the available funding in this manner, it is not possible at this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy will be aware, the new Programme for Government outlines that this new Government will continue to support the creation of Technological Universities. This is in line with the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 which provides a framework for the development of the higher education sector to 2030. With regard to the institute of technology sector, the Strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: An inspection of the Mullingar Army Barracks site was carried out by Professional and Technical staff of my Department's School Planning and Building Unit in 2012 with a view to determining its suitability for school accommodation. The site and existing accommodation at the Barracks were found to present technical difficulties such that the development of the site for school use did not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware the building project for the school in question is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. All statutory approvals have been obtained and the Stage 2b submission was recently approved by my Department. However, on 1st January 2016 there were 66 major projects under construction. Since the start of this year 14 more major projects have been progressed to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 100 and 104 together. My Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places will arise. The GIS uses data from the Central Statistics Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Department of Social Protection and information from my Department's own databases. The outcome of the latest demographic...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is an independent agency with responsibility for determining the appropriate staffing levels in relation to the support of pupils with special educational needs attending Special schools. The NCSE operates within my Department's policy in allocating this support. Staffing arrangements for special schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Planning and Building Unit of my Department has checked this matter again and it has confirmed to me that it has no record of receiving the application to which the Deputy refers. The copy of the application provided with the details supplied is incomplete in that it is not signed or dated by the Chairperson of the Board of Management. It is also not properly signed off by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board are currently in discussions with St. Aidan's Diocesan Trust, who are the owners of the school building to which he refers, regarding the building's future use.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: 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 Deputy will be aware that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: The school the Deputy refers to applied for the DEIS Programme in 2005 but was assessed not to have a sufficient level of disadvantage for inclusion in the scheme at the time. As the Deputy is aware, the review of the DEIS programme is currently underway and it is my intention that a New Action Plan Educational Inclusion will be published by the end of this year. The review is looking...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: The supplementary assignment arrangements for Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) were established on foot of proposals brought forward by the Labour Relations Commission when the Haddington Road Agreement was being agreed. These supplementary assignment arrangements for SNAs continue to operate under the Lansdowne Road Agreement, and both unions representing SNAs, namely SIPTU and IMPACT, have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: UK Referendum on EU Membership (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Government has a Contingency Framework in place which maps the key issues that will be most important to Ireland in the coming weeks and months. My Department participated fully in and contributed to the preparation of that Framework for the education sector. The Government has published a summary of the key actions that will be taken to address the contingencies arising from the UK's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Data (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: In the academic year 2015/16 there were 1,007 full-time and part-time Northern Irish domiciled enrolments and 1,805 full-time and part-time British domiciled enrolments in all higher education institutions that are funded by the Higher Education Authority (HEA). The HEA does not collect data on students from the Republic of Ireland studying in Northern Ireland or Britain. However, I...