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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The New Schools Establishment Group recently submitted its report to me as part of the patronage determination process for the new post-primary schools due to open in 2015 and 2016. This includes the proposed new post-primary school for Balbriggan. I am considering the Report and I expect to be in a position to announce my decision shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: 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 educational needs supports, including the allocation of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools. The NCSE operates within my Department's established criteria for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) that in the case of the student referred to by the Deputy her application has been assessed and a letter informing her of the outcome will issue shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Net Voted Allocation for my Department's Vote in 2013 is €7.927 billion. In a Vote this size, it is not unusual for actual expenditure, at a given point in time, to be at variance with the profile of expenditure prepared at the beginning of the year. Net projected current expenditure of €6.186 billion at the end of October 2013, was running €114 million or 1.8% behind...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Teacher allocations are approved annually in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. Preparation for the staffing and redeployment process for the 2014/15 school year is currently underway in my Department. The staffing arrangements for all schools for the 2014/15 school year will be published early in 2014. The Teaching Council has responsibility for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Overseas Students Data (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The United States is a priority market for the promotion of Irish education under the Government's International Education Strategy 2010-2015. Over 8,500 US students studied in Ireland in 2013. The most recent US data from the Institute of International Education, released just yesterday, indicates that Ireland has retained its position as one of the top ten destinations of choice for US...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Regulations (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has produced a suite of technical guidance documents, which are available on my Department's website, www.education.ie, to assist design teams in best practice in the design and development of schools in green field site situations. These documents cover all aspects of the development of a building project for both internal and external works....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Strategy (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Implementation Plan which sets out the actions necessary to implement the recommendations in the National Strategy for Higher Education is available on my Department's website at . The Plan also identifies the lead organisations and the timeframe for implementation of each action. A detailed progress report on the implementation of all of the actions in the Plan to the end of 2012 is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department. Officials of my Department have asked the Higher Education Authority for details which will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: 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 educational needs supports. SENOs also make recommendations to my Department where assistive technology is required. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy has sought approval to retain temporary rented accommodation. In that regard, the school last week supplied further information in which it provided details of local arrangements in place whereby this accommodation is currently shared with another local school. This further information is currently under consideration by my Department and a decision...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department's current Financial Management System was introduced in 2003, consequently, the information requested by the Deputy is only available from 2004. Information in respect of years prior to 2004 is not readily available and would involve a very significant amount of administrative time to compile. The relevant information for the period from 2004 to date is outlined in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy in relation to the amounts paid by my Department to the companies to which she refers is provided in the following table. Annual Cumulative amount in Euro to certain named companies 2003-2013: Year Total 2003 €0.00 2004 €465,596.71 2005 €166,600.86 2006 €430,858.24 2007 €487,671.40 2008 €605,088.88 2009...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy is not readily available in the format requested by her. However, I will forward on the information sought to the Deputy at an early date.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Work is progressing well on the implementation of the Action Plan on Bullying, which I published in January 2013 with my colleague, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. The Action Plan sets out twelve actions to help prevent and tackle bullying in all schools. These actions focus on support for schools, teacher training and awareness raising and aim to ensure that all forms of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Issues (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Details of the number of retired academic staff that have been rehired since January 2013 in the higher education sector for the academic year 2013/14 are set out in the following table. Institution No of staff re-hired University College Dublin 17 National University of Ireland, Galway 1 National University of Ireland, Maynooth 1 Trinity College Dublin 21 University of Limerick 2 St....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tobacco Control Measures (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) is currently a compulsory subject in primary schools and at Junior Cycle in post primary schools. The SPHE curricula aim to foster self-worth, self -confidence and respectful relationships and place a particular emphasis on developing a sense of personal responsibility for one's own behaviour, feelings and actions. The issue of smoking is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware, FETAC was dissolved in November 2012 and its functions are now performed by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI). Before providers can have their programmes of education and training validated by QQI they must agree their overall procedures for quality assurance and enhancement. Those procedures address the recruitment and training of staff. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I will arrange to have a full response issued to the Deputy regarding this matter by the end of this week. I wish to firstly advise the Deputy that the enrolment of a child in a school is a matter in the first instance for the parents of the child and the Board of Management of a school. My Department has no role in relation to processing applications for enrolment to schools. Where a...