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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: The building project for the new post-primary school to serve Carpenterstown/Castleknock is included in the Department’s 6 year construction programme. Officials in the Department are liaising with officials in Fingal County Council in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the identification and acquisition of a suitable location for the school and are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers was allocated funding under the 2015 Additional Accommodation Scheme to provide a library, Kitchen & breakfast area, 8 learning support rooms and toilets. The delivery of the project has been devolved to the school authority. The progression of the project is now, therefore, a matter for the Board of Management. It is understood...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: The level of funding provided by my Department to primary and post-primary schools is primarily based on their pupil enrolment levels. This enables the grant funding to automatically adjust to reflect annual changes in demographics. The current circulars in relation to ancillary grants are Circular 0080/2016 at primary level and Circular 0081/2016 at post-primary level....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Land Transfers (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: There are a number of legal and technical matters to be resolved pertaining to the proposal by the club referred to by the Deputy. I can confirm that officials from my Department have consulted with the school authorities in relation to the proposal and the matter is being progressed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: On 18 January last, I announced that a new model for allocating Special Education Teaching Resources to mainstream primary and post-primary schools will be introduced from September 2017. The aim of this new model is to deliver better outcomes for children with special educational needs. Large amounts of research, analysis, consultation with service users and stakeholders, and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: On 18 January last, I announced that a new model for allocating Special Education Teaching Resources to mainstream primary and post-primary schools will be introduced from September 2017. The aim of this new model is to deliver better outcomes for children with special educational needs. Large amounts of research, analysis, consultation with service users and stakeholders, and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: The information requested by the deputy is available in the following table. Please note that all pupil figures for the 2016/2017 academic year are currently provisional. Mainstream Junior Infants Academic Year Standard Description Mainstream Pupils 2015/2016 Junior Infants 71564 2016/2017 Junior Infants 68449

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Catchment Areas (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: Each new school is established to meet a projected demographic need to cater for children living within a specific school planning area to be served by the school. As part of the process, agreement to a range of commitments must be specifically confirmed in writing by prospective school patrons. These commitments include a requirement that the prospective patron is willing to prioritise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: All parents are given the option of having their child's religion recorded as part of their record on the Primary Online Database (POD). Religion is considered sensitive personal data under the Data Protections Acts and therefore is only recorded on the system where there is explicit written consent from the pupil's parents. Initial data on the religious composition of pupils in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that both the financial robustness and cost benefit analysis reports have been completed for the project in question.   The National Finance Development Agency carried out the financial robustness assessment at my Department's request. The local Education and Training Board, who is delivering the project, was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: DEIS is my Department's main policy initiative to tackle educational disadvantage. The DEIS Plan 2017 sets out our vision for future intervention in the critical area of social inclusion in education policy.  A key element of DEIS Plan 2017 Plan is the availability of a new identification process for the assessment of schools for inclusion in DEIS using centrally held CSO and DES...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware of the Programme for Government commitment to increase financial supports for postgraduate students with a particular focus on those from low income households. In response to this commitment, I secured additional funding of €4million in Budget 2017 to facilitate the reinstatement of full maintenance grants, from September 2017, for the most disadvantaged...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: DEIS is my Department's main policy initiative to tackle educational disadvantage. The DEIS Plan 2017 sets out our vision for future intervention in the critical area of social inclusion in education policy. A key element of the DEIS Plan 2017 is the availability of a new identification process for the assessment of schools for inclusion in DEIS using centrally held CSO and DES data. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: This Government is committed to ensuring that all children with Special Educational Needs, including those with autism, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. Such placements facilitate access to individualised education programmes which may draw from a range of appropriate educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Exchange Scheme (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: The provisions of the teacher exchange scheme are set out by my Department in Circular Letter 0017/2015 the contents of which were agreed under the auspices of the Teacher Conciliation Council. The Teacher Conciliation Council is part of the scheme of Conciliation and Arbitration for Teachers and was set up to deal with claims and proposals relating to the Terms and Conditions of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelcholáistí Issues (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: As part of the November 2015 announcement on the new primary and post-primary schools which will open in 2017 and 2018, and in view of the continued support for a Gaelcholáiste, it was confirmed that a Gaelcholáiste to serve the North Kildare area will open in 2019, subject to the continued viability of the Irish-medium Aonad at the school referred to by the Deputy.  ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: Administrative and maintenance staffing levels in ETBs are predominately funded from the Schools and Head Office Programme pay budgets that are provided annually by my Department to each ETB. The quarterly staffing returns for Galway and Roscommon ETB show that it had 106.75 whole-time equivalent posts at 30 June 2013 funded in this manner.  The equivalent figure for 30 September 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Arts in Education Charter (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department currently supports the Music Generation initiative to the value of €2.5m per year, in respect of the 11 local Music Education Partnerships (MEPs) established under Phase 1 of the initiative and which were initially supported through philanthropic funding. In January 2016, a commitment was given by the Department of Education and Skills, subject to Exchequer resources, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tribunals of Inquiry Data (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: The information sought by the Deputy is currently being compiled by my Department and will be forwarded shortly.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: A significant benefit of the new identification process for the DEIS plan for 2017 lies in its capacity as a uniform system adopting common criteria and a consistent application across all primary and post-primary schools so it is a completely independent process. The key data sources are the primary online, POD, and post-primary online, PPOD, databases and CSO data from the national census...