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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: All Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) are paid on the SNA salary scale which is set by the Minister for Education and Skills in conjunction with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. SNAs who are employed in a regular part-time capacity are paid a pro-rata amount dependent upon their level of hours of employment. Part-time SNAs are paid on the agreed divisor rate for pay purposes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), formerly FETAC, provides 6 opportunities per year to education and training providers to apply for certification for their learners. The dates of those opportunities are published well in advance and providers are made aware of them. Once requested, certificates are issued within 2 weeks of the closing of each certification opportunity and to each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The school building project referred to by the Deputy has been included on the 5 year construction programme for 2015/16. In line with the Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Education and Skills and the County and City Managers' Association, the Department has been working closely with Donegal County Council in relation to identifying and acquiring a suitable site for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Protection (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to re-iterate if the Deputy has any child protection concern in relation to a teacher, it should be reported to the Child and Family Agency without delay. If any allegation is referred to my Department, it will be reported to the Child and Family Agency in accordance with the requirements of Children First. At the same time, my Department makes the allegation known to the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials of my Department have checked the payroll databases operated by my Department for teachers and non-teaching staff employed at Primary, Voluntary Secondary and Community and Comprehensive schools. There are no records of any payments being issued to teaching staff in Linden House, Blackrock.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The school to which the Deputy refers commenced construction in February 2014, and works are progressing. It would be inappropriate to release details of the accepted tender amount at this juncture as to do so could affect the outcome other extant tender competitions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy was recently approved a devolved grant for the construction of an ASD Unit under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme 2014. A devolved project allows individual school authorities the means to address their accommodation and building priorities with a guaranteed amount of funding and gives them day to day control of their building project. It...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I can advise that the school referred to by the Deputy was provided with Schedules of Accommodation in February 2014. Seven Mainstream Classrooms and one SET Room are to be provided as part of Phase 1 of a building project at the school in question.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is not in receipt of a current application for additional accommodation from the school referred to. It is open however to the school authority to submit an application for any additional facilities for consideration to my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school to which he refers has submitted an application for additional learning support/resource classroom accommodation. The application is currently being considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authorities as soon as this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As part of the Budget 2012 decisions, the number of pupils required to gain and retain a classroom teaching post in small primary schools was gradually increased between September 2012 and September 2014. The final phase of the increased enrolment thresholds for small schools takes effect in September, 2014. An appeals process is available to affected schools in the event that they could...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Education and Training Boards Act 2013 provides for the composition of each Education and Training Board (ETB), following the local authority elections in May 2014, as follows: 12 members elected by the relevant local authority/local authorities; 2 members elected by ETB staff; 2 members appointed by the ETB from the nominees of a national association of parents; 5 members appointed by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My officials contacted their counterparts in the Department of Justice and Equality on 7th April in this regard and were advised that the matter had already been brought to that Department's attention. In response to a query from the Minister, Deputy Shatter I confirmed to him on 11th April that there is no change in the position regarding the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the process of the progression into architectural planning of the project to provide a new 16-classroom school building for the school in question is currently underway. My Department will be in further contact with the school authorities in this regard shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (16 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I have no immediate plans to carry out a review of the levels of disadvantage in primary schools including any review to change the current DEIS category of any school within the DEIS programme. DEIS is the subject of an ongoing evaluation to ensure successful implementation and that the best possible approaches to measuring progress and outcomes are used. Findings of this evaluation to date...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Relocation (16 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 52 and 53 together. The primary school in question has been established to provide additional capacity for the wider Ballinteer/ Stepaside area. There is an Irish language school already located in that area. The question of location for the new Irish language school was, therefore, considered in the context of providing access to both Irish language...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (16 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department supports the use of ABA and training is provided for teachers in its use. However, the Department does not accept, based on research, advice and best practice, that ABA should be the only approach used. While ABA helps to improve behaviour, other approaches, such as Treatment and Education of Autistic Communication Handicapped Children (TEACCH), Picture Exchange Communications...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (16 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that the establishment of a network of autism-specific special classes in schools across the country to cater for children with autism has been a key educational priority in recent years. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Schemes (16 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Higher Education Access Route (HEAR) is a college and university admissions scheme which offers places on reduced points and extra college support to school leavers from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The scheme is operated by a number of higher education institutions and not by my Department. Admissions to the institutions are regulated by the institutions themselves. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (16 Apr 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The new post-primary school for North Wicklow is not opening until 2016. Therefore, its enrolment policy has not yet been put in place. School enrolment policies are a matter for a School's Board of Management in consultation with the Patron, which, in this case, is Educate Together.