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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: No, that is the only announcement recently.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: The names of the four schools are published.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: The sum of €100 million is seeing 70 projects through their phase, which is the 2016-17 phase. The number of projects on site is 60. The number identified to commence in 2017 is 42. That is the projection. They are released in blocks. Thirty-six were released in April and 21 in October. There is a continuous flow of projects. Forty-two in all are expected to pass through the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: The €100 million was for the 70 projects. It was funding them through their phase.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: No-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: I can get the Chairman the details on what the 70 projects were. It is not earmarked for one-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: Yes.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: I thank the committee for its interest. It was a pleasure to be here.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: Tenders have been received for the project to which the Deputy refers. The Deputy will be aware that construction funding is allocated to a project when it is approved to proceed to site. A decision is taken in this regard in the context of competing demands from other on-going capital projects. As we have not reached this stage and as, in particular, a contract has not yet...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: As I explained to the Deputy is response to his previous Parliamentary Question on this subject the terms of reference and the arrangements for the review of eligibility for services which are supported by Caranua are being considered at present. I hope that the matter will be finalised shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that my Department has responded to the ETB in question in respect of its proposal to purchase additional land for a substantial extension and refurbishment of the school referred to by the Deputy. A major project for the ETB school referred to is not however included on my Department's 6 year Construction Programme (2016-2021) which is focused on providing essential school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that, Section 2 of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs (EPSEN) Act 2004, commenced in 2005, provides for the inclusive education of children with special educational needs in an inclusive environment with children who do not have such needs unless the nature or degree of those needs of the child is such that to do so would be inconsistent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: 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. The body which has statutory responsibility for ensuring that health and safety requirements are met by all employers, including schools, is the Health and Safety Authority (HSA). Circular Letter M18/99 "Guidelines on Violence in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: As already stated in response to Parliamentary Question Nos. 220 and 226 of 29 November 2016, a teacher who is a sitting member of the Oireachtas cannot retain their post on a job-sharing or full-time basis while serving as a member of the Oireachtas. This gives effect to the Government decision of 2011 which revised the employment and pension arrangements for teachers who became Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: My Department has not incurred any legal fees in respect of tribunals of inquiry established by the State and any resulting legal actions during the years in question.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: Níl an freagra as Gaeilge inniu, but I thank the Senator for his kind words. This issue really does not fall into our area. This service was not developed as a school transport service so there has been no communication with my Department about it. As Senators know, we transport some 113,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, and the service has...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: Unfortunately this is not a school transport service for which I have any role or relationship with Bus Éireann. Bus Éireann only run the services we have agreed with it, based on national criteria. This is one that would not fall into my area. I understand that Bus Éireann has done a lot of restructuring of its services in Galway and has succeeded in building up the...

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

Richard Bruton: 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), full details of which are on the Department's website. Under this scheme schools can...

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

Richard Bruton: 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), full details of which are on the Department's website. Under this scheme schools can...

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

Richard Bruton: For school planning purposes, my Department plans school provision across some 314 school planning areas.  Sallins and Naas towns fall within the Naas school planning area.  Currently five post-primary schools serve the Naas school planning area.  This includes a new 1,000 pupil, multi-denominational, post-primary school, Naas Community College, which opened in 2015 under the...