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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Visiting Teacher Service for children with Visual and Hearing Impairment provides assistance for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and children who are blind or visually impaired. In May 2013 the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) brought forward policy advice which recommended that the service should be reviewed. Accordingly, an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department currently shares information on post-primary students as provided by recognised schools to my Department with the Department of Social Protection for the purpose of verifying student identity as outlined in Departmental circular 47/2010. This is a Fair Processing Notice which explains how my Department processes the personal data of post-primary students in compliance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The school building project referred to by the Deputy was included in the 5 year building programme announced in March 2012 and is listed to progress to construction in 2015/16. The Design Team has been appointed and the project is at an early stage of architectural planning. The planning application, along with the applications for other statutory approvals and the preparation of tender...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks Rental Scheme (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 254, 279 and 297 together. The Department will continue to provide a book grant as usual to all primary schools. This grant, can be utilised for the purposes of updating or expanding a school's existing book rental scheme. I want to commend all schools that have used it to help build up book rental schemes over the years. Their efforts mean that the high...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 255 to 257, inclusive, together. The information requested is provided in the National School Annual Census Return. Results from the Census for the current school year (2013/2014) are not yet available. The attached table shows the number of mainstream primary school pupils in each standard on a county basis for the 2012/13 school year. Mainstream pupils by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I am not aware of specific or EU funding available to island communities for the delivery of educational capital projects.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: SUSI has been operating considerably more efficiently and has been meeting its targets in respect of processing grants on schedule in 2013/14. There will be an ongoing focus on work to continually improve the system, particularly relating to the processes and systems in operation. In this regard, SUSI is currently developing a programme of further changes and improvements to provide enhanced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm for the Deputy that my Department has not received any proposals from the Patron in relation to amalgamating the schools to which he refers. The initiative for any amalgamation or re-organisation may come from a variety of sources, such as parents, staff, Boards of Management and patron. Any such proposal to amalgamate schools must involve consultation with all of the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The area referred to by the Deputy was one of 43 areas surveyed by my Department to establish the level of parental demand for a wider choice in the patronage of primary schools within these areas. The outcome of the survey for the area in question did show sufficient demand to sustain an English language multi-denominational school. The consideration of options for divesting school patronage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy was recently approved a devolved grant under the Department's Rented Prefab Replacement Initiative Phase 2. A devolved project allows individual school authorities the means to address their accommodation and building priorities with a guaranteed amount of funding and gives them day to day control of their building project. It is a central tenet of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The following are the new schools constructed in Dublin 15 over the period 2009 to 2013: Roll No 18046A Scoil Bhride B, Blanchardstown - Catholic patronage;Roll No 16675V Mulhuddart National School - Catholic patronage;Roll No 20201V Tyrrelstown Educate Together National School - Educate Together patronage;Roll No 20231H St Benedicts Ongar National School, Littlepace - Catholic patronage;Roll...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The following new schools (not yet constructed) in Dublin 15 are included in the five year plan announced in March 2012 to commence construction over the period of the plan: Roll No 18047C Scoil Bhride C, Blanchardstown - Catholic patronage;Roll No 20383H Blanchardstown West Educate Together National School - Educate Together patronage;Roll No 20384J Powerstown Educate Together National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that a building project for the school to which he refers is currently at an early stage of the architectural planning process. The school authority and their Design Team are currently completing the Stage 2(a) report for submission to my Department. Following satisfactory completion of this report and subject to no issues arising, the project will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that a building project for the school to which he refers is currently at an early stage of the architectural planning process. The school authority and their Design Team are currently completing the Stage 2(a) report for submission to my Department. Following satisfactory completion of this report and subject to no issues arising, the project will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As part of the Landscape Process undertaken by the HEA in 2012, the results of which were submitted to me in a report in March 2012, all higher education institutions were asked to identify their strategic fit within a future higher education system configuration. Institutes of technology that were interested in merging and applying to become technological universities were asked to submit...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 274 and 275 together. The position is that higher education institutions, including Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology (DLIADT), are autonomous statutory bodies for which the Governing Authority has responsibility for their day to day operational affairs, including the issue of generating non-Exchequer funding. My Department, or the Higher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I am very pleased to give the Deputy an update on Politics and Society. I have decided to include Politics and Society within the suite of subjects available to schools in the Leaving Certificate. In the last fortnight, I wrote to the NCCA about this and have sought their advice on a number of issues which need to be addressed before the subject can be made available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have been informed by City of Dublin ETB that the student referred to by the Deputy was awarded a fees only grant in the academic year 2010/11 for a three year Level 7 course in Horticulture in Waterford IT. The course being pursued by the student in the current academic year is an add-on Level 8 course in a different college and the student was required to submit...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (28 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 280 to 282, inclusive, together. In accordance with the provisions of the Education Act 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school. In general, the Board has the responsibility to ensure that the school operates efficiently and effectively. Boards of Management are required to comply with the provisions of the...