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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers has submitted an application to my Department for significant additional funding for a building project.  This request is currently being considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: There are many competing demands on the limited capital budget for higher education.   The Department of Education and Skills is aware of the proposed development referred to by the Deputy and it will be considered within the context of competing demands.  I am not in a position to commit to a funding allocation at this point.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, my Department provided capital funding in 2014 to the school referred to for ancillary works to facilitate an amalgamation at that time. The school subsequently submitted an application to my Department for major capital works. However, a project for this school was not included on my Department's 6 year Construction Programme (2016-2021) which is focused on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the arrangements for the removal of the pre-fab concerned are a matter in the first instance for the school in question.  In that regard, my Department wrote to the school in July last and outlined a number of options regarding the disposal concerned for its consideration.  My Department also advised the school to keep it apprised of developments.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy may be aware, Institutes of Technology (IoTs) are classified as within General Government for Eurostat purposes. This arises primarily due to the smaller level of income received by IoTs from non-State sources as against the Universities which have a higher proportion. The Deputy will appreciate, the recent economic crisis and continuing constraints on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development Data (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department.  I will arrange for the information to be sent to the Deputy shortly. Details of research grants to institutions from Science Foundation Ireland and Teagasc would be available from the Departments of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers will open in September 2017 and the patronage process for this school is ongoing at present. As the Deputy may be aware, the building project for the new post-primary school to serve Swords is included on my Departments six year construction programme, announced in November 2015.  The project for this school is listed to go to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Issues (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 156 and 172 together. 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. The Government has published the key actions that will be taken to address the contingencies arising from the UK's decision to leave the EU. My Department participated fully in and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: Officials of my Department meet with individual former residents of industrial schools, with persons who may have been abused in school settings and with groups representing former residents as required and many such meetings have taken place.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Report of the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education, published in July, clearly outlines the funding challenges in the higher education sector and offers a number of approaches and recommendations for consideration. As committed to in the Programme for Government, I have referred the report to the Education Committee as part of the process for formulating a plan for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The Commission operates the scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate Examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Access to Higher Education (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The review on barriers to higher education for lone parents is currently being finalised. This is a complex area that involves 3 Government Departments. Given the complexity of the issues involved, it is now expected that the review will be completed in Q.4 2016. The emerging findings from the review have informed my Department's consideration of relevant issues in advance of Budget 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: In the Action Plan for Education 2016 – 2019 which I published in September, I committed to publishing a Gaeltacht Education Strategy before the end of the year. It is my plan to publish a Policy on Gaeltacht Education before the end of 2016.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Relations (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The approach to application of the Lansdowne Road Agreement in respect of post-primary teachers is as follows (as set out in Department Circular 0045/2016): - Education and Training Board schools (apart from Designated Community Colleges which are dual-union) – as TUI is the union with representation rights in this sector, the LRA is being applied generally to all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Relations (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: Junior Certificate students who are taught English by teachers who are members of the ASTI will not undertake Classroom Based Assessments. (CBAs). Since the completion of the second CBA is linked to the written Assessment Task these students cannot complete that Assessment Task. This means that the student’s Assessment Task will not be sent to SEC and the SEC can only mark the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Assistance Fund (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Review of the Student Assistance Fund was published on 19th. September and is available on the HEA website (www.hea.ie). The HEA, in conjunction with my Department, are currently monitoring implementation of the recommendations contained in the Review.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that The Programme for a Partnership Government states that a new model of In-School Speech and Language Therapy will be established. It commits to investing an extra €500 million in education by 2021 through measures including childcare subventions and to increase the numbers of HSE Speech and Language Therapists by 25%. As committed to in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The attention of my Department has been brought to reported shortages in certain subject areas, such as Home Economics. However, comprehensive data on teacher supply and demand in specific subject areas is not available to my Department. The Deputy will note that one of the goals in the recently published Action Plan for Education is to develop the continuum of teacher education,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: By way of context the Deputy will be aware 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that a new Inclusion Support Service within the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is currently being established in order to assist schools in supporting children with special education needs. The service will include the Special Education Support Service (SESS), the National Behaviour Support Service (NBSS) and the Visiting Teacher Service for...