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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (30 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent-CID holding teachers to schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. Circular 0074/2016 sets out the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (30 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012. Section 7(7) of that Act provides that the Board, as it considers necessary for the performance of its functions and with the approval of the Minister, may enter into contracts with persons and engage consultants or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (30 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 205 and 207 together. The key data sources used in the DEIS identification process are the DES Primary Online Database (POD) and Post-Primary Online (PPOD) Databases, and CSO data from the National Census of Population as represented in the Pobal HP Index for Small Areas which is a method of measuring the relative affluence or disadvantage of a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Designation (30 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As both schools are within the boundaries of Cork city and suburbs as defined by the CSO, both schools were classified 'Urban' for the purposes of the DEIS Plan 2017.  This designation is in line with UN criteria for Urban and Rural designation. More information on CSO boundaries is available at http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011boundaryfiles/. A n interactive mapping tool...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (30 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Defined school planning areas facilitate the orderly planning of school provision and accommodation needs.  My Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places will arise.  The GIS uses data from the Central Statistics Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland and the Department of Social Protection, in addition to my Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Applications (30 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As I advised the Deputy on 1 March last, a key element of DEIS Plan 2017 is the availability of a new and objective identification process for the assessment of schools for inclusion in DEIS using centrally held national CSO and DES data. The key data sources used in this process are the DES Primary Online Database (POD) and Post-Primary Online (PPOD) Databases, and CSO data...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 210 and 213 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7 March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of the new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation model replaces the generalised allocation process at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home School Community Liaison Scheme (30 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) Scheme is a school-based intervention provided to DEIS schools to address the needs of pupils/families in disadvantaged areas through acknowledging and developing the role of the parent as prime educator. This is achieved through targeting the families of pupils at risk of educational failure and putting in place a range of appropriate support...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Applications (30 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The key data sources used in the DEIS identification process are the DES Primary Online Database (POD) and Post-Primary Online (PPOD) Databases, and CSO data from the National Census of Population as represented in the Pobal HP Index for Small Areas which is a method of measuring the relative affluence or disadvantage of a particular geographical area.  Variables used in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7 March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of the new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation process replaces the generalised allocation process at primary and post primary school level for learning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases receive assessment services through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have a student assessment carried...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases receive assessment services through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have a student assessment carried...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, a site acquisition process for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently underway. A suitable permanent site for the school has been identified and agreement in principle with the landowners has been reached.   The acquisition process in respect of this site is currently at the conveyancing stage and my officials are working...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (31 May 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: Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: While the statutory function of appointing members of the Board of Caranua rests with the Minister for Education and Skills, the application and selection process is managed on my behalf by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) in accordance with the Guidelines on Appointments to State Board published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I can confirm that the PAS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: While the statutory function for appointing members of the Board of Caranua rests with the Minister for Education and Skills, the application and selection process is managed on my behalf by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) in accordance with the Guidelines on Appointments to State Board published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I can confirm that the Chief...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The salary scale applying to the post of Director of the Teaching Council is Principal Officer (Higher) (PPC) (€87,741-€107,410). However, the current Director is a serving civil servant on secondment to the Teaching Council from a government department, where he holds the grade of Director (Civil Service). In accordance with the secondment arrangement, the Director retains...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Teaching Council had a concern as to whether the appointment of the Director for a second term would give rise to a contract of indefinite duration. My Department clarified the contractual terms, which provide for a fixed-term contract in the context of the continuation of a secondment arrangement. Subsequently the Council reappointed the Director for a five year fixed-term from 14 May 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Reform (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: All schools will offer a well-being programme to those students  entering first year in September 2017. Well-being is built on a number of pillars, which include subjects already offered. These subjects include CSPE, PE and SPHE.  Schools have the flexibility to add other curricular subjects and initiatives to their well-being programme.   This area of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that my Department has committed, as part of the Action Plan for Education 2016-2019, to the roll-out of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme to all DEIS schools. In order to support this development and as part of the Action Plan for Education 2017 I can inform the Deputy that NEPS psychologist number will be increased by 10 staff.  In...