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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (21 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Statistics section of my Department's website contains information relating to pupil teacher ratio (PTR) at primary and second level. Pupil Teacher Ratio in respect of all schools is only available at national level and not disaggregated by county or any other variable. The most recent statistics are for the 2012/13 school year. The national average class size is 24.7 pupils. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (21 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 279 and 280 together. The current status of all projects, may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie and this will be updated regularly throughout the year. The Deputy will be aware that the five year construction plan, that I announced on 9 March 2012, outlines the major school projects that will commence construction over the duration of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (21 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 281 and 282 together. I remain of the view that the optimum configuration for the two post-primary schools for Maynooth and, indeed, the best provision that can be made for the students in the area, is two fully vertical schools. The Deputy will be well aware of my reasons for this from our meetings on this matter and from my response to his recent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Under the Intercultural Education Strategy (2010-2015) which covers the continuum of education from pre-school through to further and higher education, current funding is being prioritised by my Department within schools for school based language provision, including English language support and support for mother tongue. As the Deputy may be aware the Office for the Promotion of Migrant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Consultancy Contracts Data (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: For the Deputy's information the attach table lists the consultants and consultancy firms engaged by my Department for the years 2009 to 2012 inclusive. Information in relation to consultancy expenditure is compiled retrospectively in respect of the previous year. The details in respect of 2013 are not yet available but will be provided to the Deputy as soon as they are to hand. Architects...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Severe Weather Events Expenditure (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: No applications for funding have been received to date under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to have refurbishment works carried out as a result of the recent severe weather. All school buildings that are not covered by state indemnity are required to adequately insure their school premises including insurance for storm damage and if any of these schools were to be damaged by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 90 and 91 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that class teachers in schools are required to be fully-qualified with a qualification relevant to the sector in which they are teaching. It has been the policy of my Department for some time that only qualified and registered teachers should be employed by schools. This is set out most recently in Circular...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning, stage 2a, detailed design. On the satisfactory completion of stage 2a, and subject to no other issues arising, the project will progress to Stage 2(b) which includes applications for Planning Permission, Fire Safety Certification, Disability Access Certification and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The total photography costs for my Department since 9 March 2011 are set out in the attached document. Cost Occasion €381.15 (€315 + €66.15 VAT) Copies of photographs of a school project and their use on an A1 display board which was submitted to the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland for the joint RIAI/Department colloquium on school design which was held on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Relations Contracts Data (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department has not incurred any expenditure on the provision of public relations services since the Government came into office.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: There is no mechanism currently available for a teacher to transfer from one Education Board to another. The focus of the cross sectoral redeployment arrangements for teachers is on facilitating the redeployment of surplus permanent and CID holding teachers into vacancies in other schools or Education Training Boards. Education and Training Boards or VECs have not, to date, been in a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought is not readily available and would require a very substantial amount of administrative time to identify and extract from existing financial records. However, attached is relevant information compiled in response to similar Parliamentary Questions. There is some overlap involved as the information is an aggregation of two tables covering the periods 1 October 2011 to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Tá mo Roinnse ag obair i gcomhar le pátrún na Gaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh chun cóiríocht chuí a shainaithint agus a aimsiú do thosach na scoile in 2014. Maidir le suíomh buan an Ghaelcholáiste, táthar tar éis roinnt roghanna a shainaithint agus tá siad seo á gcur chun cinn. Tá caibidlíocht ar siúl i...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Book Rental Scheme (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware from Budget 2014 that additional funding has been provided which will involve an investment of €15m to support the establishment of book rental schemes in primary schools that do not currently operate them. The Department will provide €5m in seed capital per annum over a three year period to such schools. It is my aim to ensure that every primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: For the Deputies information under the Public Service Reform plan the following were identified for rationalisation or merger and since March 2011 the following actions have taken place. The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology and Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences were merged in March 2012 to form the Irish Research Council (IRC). The IRC...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Remuneration (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Professional added years are awarded to certain employees in universities and institutes of technology strictly in accordance with the rules of the relevant pension scheme. I am not aware of any top-up payments being paid to academics in universities and institutes of technology and it is the position of my Department that no such top-up payments should be awarded. In this regard it should...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The project to which the Deputy refers was authorised to proceed to tender in late 2013. It is anticipated that the tender process will be completed and a contractor appointed in the second quarter of 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: A new school is proposed to meet the long term accommodation needs of the school in question. A site has been acquired for this purpose and a tendering process for the appointment of a project design team has commenced. The 5 Year Plan, announced in March 2012, prioritises new school building projects as well as major extensions in areas where a demographic need has been established. School...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The July Education Programme is available to all special schools and mainstream primary schools with special classes catering for children with autism that choose to extend their education services through the month of July. My Department also provides for a July Programme for pupils with a severe/profound general learning disability. Where school based provision is not feasible, home based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Details regarding payments from my Department for the past three years, to bodies that have been granted charitable tax exemption under Section 207 of the Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997, are set out in the attached table. Excluded from this list are payments made to schools, teacher education bodies or bodies representing groups of educational institutions. Cases where the amount of payment...