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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the policy of my Department is that children with special educational needs, including children with autism, should be included where possible and appropriate in mainstream placements with additional supports provided. In circumstances where children with Special Educational Needs require more specialised interventions, special school or special class places...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school referred to by the Deputy is included on the six year programme announced on 17th November 2015 and is listed to proceed to tender and construction in 2017. A Project Manager and Design Team have been appointed for the project and it is currently at Stage 1 of Architectural Planning, which is the initial sketch design stage. In relation to the question of improved facilities...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: In identifying the requirement for additional school places, my Department uses a Geographical Information System to identify the areas under increased demographic pressure nationwide. The system uses data from the Central Statistics Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Department of Social Protection and information from the Department's own databases. Using this information, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for allocating resource teachers and special needs assistants to schools to support students with special educational needs, including autism. It is also the role of the NCSE to make appropriate arrangements to establish special classes in schools in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Responsibility for the payment of insurance to cover employers and public liability, and property damage rests with the Board of Management of primary schools, voluntary secondary schools and with the ETBs in respect of schools operated by them. The cost of insurance is met from the grants paid by my Department and in the case of the ETBs from the annual non-pay allocation. With regard to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Students in third-level institutions experiencing exceptional financial need can apply for support under the Student Assistance Fund. This Fund assists students, in a sensitive and compassionate manner, who might otherwise be unable to continue their third level studies due to their financial circumstances. Details of this fund are available for the Access Office in the third level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department was recently advised by Kilkenny and Carlow ETB that in light of the number of students that have enrolled for the school year 2016/17 and due to the declining enrolments over a number of years, that the ETB will not be proceeding with the enrolment of new first year students in Muine Bheag Vocational School for the coming school year, 2016-17. The ETB propose that all of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Data (22 Mar 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The main grades at the Department concerned with the delivery of services to the Irish speaking community are in the areas of school inspections and the provision of educational psychological services by the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) to schools in Gaeltacht areas and the Gaelscoileanna. Currently there are staff at the grades of school inspector and educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) is responsible for processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports. SENOs also make recommendations to my Department where assistive technology is required. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: For planning purposes my Department divides the country into geographic areas each with several primary schools feeding into a post-primary centre, consisting of one or more post-primary schools. These defined areas facilitate the orderly planning of school provision and accommodation needs. Since 2011 new schools are established where the current and future demographics of an area require...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Administration (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy has clarified to my Department that his question refers to the matter of home schooling. In accordance with the National Education Welfare Board (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 – No. 215 of 2011, responsibility for the regulation of home schooling of children lies with my colleague the Minister for Children and Youth...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's Planning and Building Unit has no record of receiving an application for funding from the school to which the Deputy refers. It is open to the school to use its Minor Works Grant, which was paid to the school last November, to carry out the most urgently needed works at the school in full or in part as that grant permits.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question has submitted an application for additional accommodation to my Department. The application is being assessed and a decision will be conveyed to the school authorities as soon as this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund, is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012. Caranua provides regular updates on its website (www.caranua.ie) in regard to the number of applications received, the amounts expended by it and related matters. The most recent update, which provides figures to 30 November...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to oversee the use of the cash contributions of up to €110 million, pledged by the religious congregations, to support the needs of survivors of institutional child abuse. To date a total of €85.92 million,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department officials and representatives of the Dublin Archdiocese and of the local parish have agreed that the property to which the Deputy refers will be made available to the Department for educational use. My officials are continuing to work closely with the Archdiocesan authorities on the practicalities of the property issues involved and work is well advanced in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: A submission has been made to the Local Authority regarding condition number 3 of the Planning Permission granted for Kingswood Community College. The Design Team are in on-going discussions with the Local Authority regarding the details of the submission. When those discussions are concluded the Design Team will then make a further submission to the Local Authority seeking formal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted three applications under the Emergency Works Scheme in the past year or so. Two of these were received on 22 December 2014. The first of these sought funding to replace leaking pipes and carry out electrical repairs. This application was approved and the grant has been paid in full. The second application sought funding to replace the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Participation (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that it has been national policy since 2005 to target support for those mature students (defined as those aged 23 or over on 1 January of the year of their entry to higher education) who have not previously benefitted from higher education and who enter college to complete a full time course. Since 2011 the Higher Education Authority has incentivised higher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Feb 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has submitted an application to my Department for capital funding for the provision of temporary school accommodation. Further details relevant to the application were requested from the school. On receipt of that information the application can be considered further with a decision conveyed to the school authority in due course.