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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The total funding for DEIS in 2017 by my Department is €115 million. There are additional supports available from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, under the School Completion Programme and the Department of Social Protection for the element of the School Meals Programme provided to DEIS schools. In the current school year (2016/2017) the DEIS School Support Programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Relations (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: Under the Lansdowne Road Agreement, the Government committed that compulsory redundancy would not apply to public servants. This protection is not available to staff who are outside the terms of that Agreement. By deciding to reject the Lansdowne Road Agreement, the ASTI has placed its members outside that Agreement and therefore the Agreement’s benefits and protections will not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Service Pay Commission (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Government is committed to continuing to work with unions inside the public service agreements in progressing consideration of pay and conditions issues.The work of the Public Service Pay Commission is now underway in this regard.  The Government has stated that it intends to initiate negotiations on a successor to the Lansdowne Road Agreement once the initial report from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The current position is that the Lansdowne Road Agreement as set out in Section 2 of Circular 0045/2016 applies to teachers employed in Education and Training Board schools and centres (apart from Designated Community Colleges). The Agreement also applies to teachers employed in Designated Community Colleges, Community and Comprehensive Schools and Voluntary Secondary Schools who are TUI...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: DEIS is my Department's main policy initiative to tackle educational disadvantage. The DEIS Plan for 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 is the availability of a new identification process for the assessment of schools for inclusion in DEIS using centrally held CSO and DES data. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: In overall terms, my Department has no evidence of an overall shortage of teachers at post primary level. I am aware that some schools are experiencing difficulty in recruiting substitute teachers for certain subject areas such as Home Economics, and I am committed to examining all possible means of addressing this issue. The Deputy will be aware that a Technical Working Group (TWG) was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is not in receipt of a current application for capital funding from the school referred to by the Deputy. Any application received will be assessed in the context of current competing priorities and the need to prioritise available funding for essential classroom accommodation where additional teachers are being appointed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that new Circulars setting out the scheme for the new model for allocating special education teachers to mainstream schools have now been published on my Departments website. DES Circular 0013/2017 provides details of the scheme for primary schools while DES Circular 0014/2017 sets out the position for post primary schools. Schools will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Stádas Thionscadail Tógála Scoileanna (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: D’fhaomh mo Roinn deontas deabhlaithe suntasach i mí Mheán Fómhair 2014 don scoil faoi chaibidil chun méadú buan a thógáil agus oibreacha athchumraithe a dhéanamh. Mar thoradh air seo d’fhéadfaí an chóiríocht réamhdhéanta a bhaint ó láthair na scoile. Fuair mo Roinn togra le déanaí chun...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Regulatory Impact Assessment Data (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The legislative proposals referred to by the Deputy are set out in the table. Legislative Proposal Regulatory Impact Assessment Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 Completed and published Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 Completed and published Education and Training Boards Bill 2012 Completed and published Education (Admissions to Schools) Bill 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The building project for the school to which the Deputy refers is at an advanced stage of architectural planning, Stage 2(b) – Detailed Design, which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire Cert and Disability Access Cert and the preparation of tender documents. Planning Permission has recently been secured for this project and a decision on the other statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that new Circulars setting out the scheme for the new model for allocating special education teachers to mainstream schools have now been published on my Departments website. DES Circular 0013/2017 provides details for primary schools while DES Circular 0014/2017 sets out the position for post primary schools. Schools will also receive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: DEIS is my Department's main policy initiative to tackle educational disadvantage. The DEIS Plan for 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers is one of thirty such schools which were identified under the new assessment methodology as having a sufficient level of disadvantage to raise it from Urban Band 2 to Band 1 status under the DEIS Plan 2017. The staffing schedule for all primary schools, which includes details in relation to the allocations under DEIS, will be available to schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the deputy that the list of all DEIS schools in the country is available on my Department's website at the following link: http://www.education.ie/en/Schools-Colleges/Services/DEIS-De livering-Equality-of-Opportunity-in-Schools-/ The list can be filtered on a county by county basis. The list of schools announced for inclusion in DEIS Plan 2017 is also available at the above...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: Circular 0074/2016 sets out the arrangements for panel access for fixed-term/temporary and part-time teachers to the Supplementary Redeployment Panel for the 2017/18 school year. The base school for panel purposes is the school within that panel area where the majority of teaching service was given in the 2016 calendar year or the school in which the applicant is contracted to teach on or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: There were no Freedom of Information requests received by the Department of Education and Skills that the Chief State Solicitor's Office incurred expenses on dealing with for the past three years to date.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I thank Senator Boyhan for raising this huge issue. Before I came in I took the opportunity to look back at some of the debate in the House on the Ryan report, which revealed the full horrors of what happened in residential institutions where sexual abuse was reported to be endemic in boys' institutions and physical and emotional abuse and neglect were routine. Members of the congregations...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I share the Senator's disappointment that today's report from the Comptroller and Auditor General reveals that we are not moving further to a position in which the church honours even the two commitments it made. The indemnity commitment was €128 million and there was an additional commitment of €352 million. We have not succeeded in seeing those transfers being made. They...