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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Modern Language Teaching (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative (MLPSI) was a pilot scheme with an annual budget of approximately €2.5m . Funding ceased for this initiative from 2012.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Teacher allocations to all second level schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment.  The criteria for the allocation of posts are communicated to school managements annually and are available on the Department's website.  In accordance with these rules each school management authority is required to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Exact expenditure figures regarding the teaching of Computer Science or Coding in schools are not available, as funding is not allocated by my Department on a subject-by-subject basis.  However, work in this area is taking place at both primary and post-primary levels.  Statistics from the last academic year indicate that there were in excess of 10,800 Continuing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Expenditure (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Active School Flag (ASF) is a Department initiative where schools are recognised for striving to achieve a physically educated and physically active school community.  My Department allocated €175,000 for the initiative in 2016.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Expenditure (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Wellbeing is concerned with enhancing the physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing of students. Therefore, the area of learning includes Physical Education (PE), Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) and Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE). Schools can include other areas in their provision for wellbeing, such as guidance. At primary level wellbeing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Expenditure (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Please see below the total cost per undergraduate student per year in each of the requested specialisms.  For professional accreditation, students would need to follow some of these undergraduate courses with a relevant postgraduate qualification. Specialism Cost per UG student per year Cost for 100 UG students per year Nursing €10,500 €1,050,000 Speech and Language...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: As a consequence of the financial crisis, there was a need to enact a number of measures to reduce public expenditure so as to stabilise the country's public finances. A previous Government reduced the salaries and allowances payable to all new entrants to public service recruitment grades by 10% with effect from 1 January 2011. This decision also required that such new entrants would start...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Haddington Road Agreement provided for the establishment of Expert Groups to consider and report on the level of fixed-term and part-time employment in teaching and third-level lecturing, having regard to the importance for staff of employment stability and security and taking account of system and employer needs and Teaching Council registration requirements. The Ward Report in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Croke Park Agreement (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Croke Park hours are part of wider productivity measures introduced under the Public Service Agreements that require all public servants to work additional time for no additional payment. The Croke Park hours represent a real reform with significant benefits for parents and children. In schools, the Croke Park hours are 33 additional hours a year at post primary (36 hours at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Circular 12/2016, which is available on the Department website, outlines the number of days that teaching principals may take as release time in a school year in order to assist them fulfilling their principal duties. Under these arrangements my Department pays for a substitute teacher to be employed by a school to facilitate administrative functions to be undertaken by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: There are limited alleviation arrangements in place for schools that are acutely affected by the impact of the moratorium at Assistant Principal level. These arrangements are mainly focused at post-primary level. It is fair to say that before the moratorium, due to the way the allowances were structured, notwithstanding the fact that one out of every two teachers held a management...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Measures announced by my Department as part of Budget 2016 and 2017 mean that 400 guidance posts, or two thirds of the guidance allocation that was withdrawn in Budget 2012, will be restored to schools from September 2017. All these 400 posts are allocated separately and transparently and outside of the quota on the normal schedule of posts. The provision of 1 guidance counsellor...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Professional Development (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: A key objective in the Action Plan for Education 2016 – 2019 is to develop the continuum of teacher education to equip teachers with the right skills for 21st century teaching and learning and improve school leadership. The quality of our teaching profession is the single most critical factor in sustaining and enhancing the quality of education outcomes in our system. We know that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually on the website of the Department of Education and Skills. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September.  Budget 2012 increased the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The average cost of a primary EAL teacher is €60,000 while the average cost of a post primary EAL teacher is €63,000. The level of extra teaching support provided in respect of language support to schools is determined by the numbers of eligible pupils enrolled and the associated levels of those pupils' language proficiency. Earlier this year, I announced that a new...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Expenditure (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that Budget 2017 allocated €5m in additional funding to the current DEIS allocation of €97m for 2017 - equivalent to a full year value of €15m.  Consequently, the overall allocation by my Department for DEIS in 2017/18 will be in the region of €112m.  Accordingly, the cost  to my Department of extending the DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Staffing arrangements in Primary Schools, including staffing in DEIS Urban Band 1 Primary Schools, for the 2017/18 school year are governed by Circular 0017/2017 available at the following link - .Post Primary staffing arrangements for 2017/18 are governed by Circular 00010/2017 available at the following link - . DEIS Primary Urban Band 2 and DEIS Primary Rural schools are in receipt of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Figures for the 2016/17 academic year are not yet finalised. However, in 2015/16 there were 22,240 students in receipt of the special rate. Therefore, the cost of paying these students an additional €10, €20, €30 or €40 per week based on a 36 week period, would cost approximately €8m, €16m, €24m or €32m respectively.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The cost of reversing the change to the distance criteria in the Student Grant, is estimated to be in the region of €26m. Prior to the introduction of the 45 km rule, circa 75% of all maintenance grant holders qualified for higher non-adjacent grant support. The above costing assumes that a change to the distance rule would result in a similar percentage of students...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The links below outline the rates requested by the Deputy which are published on my Department's website.  .