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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: The pay percentage is 71%. It is €697 million out of €979 million. On the implementation of the Cush report, there are issues but it has been agreed and we are undertaking a check throughout the various institutes to make sure the agreement is being implemented. It has been raised by some of the trade unions that there are some shortcomings in its implementation, and we are...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: To take up Deputy Nolan's point, that reduction is not due to a reduction in training. It is because the Church of Ireland College of Education, which had been separately funded, is now funded through DCU due to its incorporation there, in that it has merged into a new college operating out of St. Patrick's as part of DCU. I will get the figures for the Deputy but, to my knowledge, there is...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: There is no doubt that land costs are an issue. As members can imagine, land costs fell off and even halved at one point in 2013, but they have increased substantially since then. This is taking up a little more than one twentieth of the budget but that figure is rising and it can wax and wane, depending on the year. Obviously, Harold's Cross is an especially expensive area of the city in...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: No, it is site purchases-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: That is one particular transaction but, overall, we are not talking about-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: No, but the trend of growing land costs will continue.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: It is around €30 million and this would obviously be a significantly expensive site. One has to look at the pressure points. We have 314 planning areas-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: In terms of whether it has impacted, the answer is no. We continue to increase the number of places we are providing. Last year we provided 22,288 places, so when compared with the previous year's 19,300 places, we increased the number of places by 3,000 in the year. It is becoming more expensive, both due to building costs and site costs, but we are getting additional budget to respond to...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: A site for the new school will often be provided by the patron. That would be the arrangement in most of these cases. More recently, I understand that new schools are not being built on patron's sites - they are being built on State sites where we have full ownership, which gives us that additional flexibility. That seems to be the pattern.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: It depends on the circumstances as to whether it is of value to us from an educational perspective.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: The way the Department would approach this is to examine each case on its merits. Obviously, if an old school had a future use we would pursue that. If an old building had very limited value at that stage, we had a lien on the building and the land was in the patron's ownership, we would have very little by way of an asset to pursue. As regards the issue of whether we can deploy them for...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: No, the Department would not be doing that. In those circumstances the patron would acquire the site but it would be transferred to State ownership with a lien.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: No. The State gets a new school which we build.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: If the old site was originally in the ownership of the patron, it remains as such.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: They would have provided the site to us in some of those circumstances, so there would be an arrangement in each case to protect the State's investment to the best advantage.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: Every case will be done to the best advantage of the taxpayer. Most new schools will be built on greenfield sites where we might have a competition for the patron. We would then own the school and the site, which would be a different situation whereby we retain ownership. Where there is an old, disused school and we are moving to a new site, the Department would look afresh at that in...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Richard Bruton: None immediately.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)
Richard Bruton: As it happens, I absolutely share the concerns of both Deputies from the south east about the need to progress the legislation, but I have to make sure that when we come back to the Dáil, we will be in a position to proceed. My officials have had discussions with the Teachers Union of Ireland. That was one of the particular issues that needed to be dealt with. An agreement has been...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)
Richard Bruton: The position in respect of any purchase, and it is true of the purchase in Harold's Cross, is that it is based on an independent valuation in order that the State is getting value for money. Since the recovery in land values, we have to pay more for land for schools and, as I indicated to the Deputy yesterday at the joint committee meeting, that has increased in each of the past few years...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2017)
Richard Bruton: ASD Early intervention classes are available for children aged 3-5 with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Early intervention classes are intended to provide early support for children with ASD before they start school. Following early intervention children will attend a mainstream class unless there is professional guidance that they require a special class or a placement in a...