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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Work is continuing in relation to securing suitable permanent school accommodation for Ballinteer Educate Together National School. My Department officials will continue to liaise with the school authorities in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: On 1 July 2013 the 33 Vocational Education Committees (VECs) were dissolved and replaced with 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs). My Department is responsible for the disbursement of pay and non-pay grants to each of the 16 ETBs in respect of the range of school and non-school based services. Details of funding provided by my Department to the ETB Sector for the period 2011 to 2013 are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Since the beginning of the financial crisis, there has been a need to enact a number of measures to reduce public expenditure. The previous Government reduced the salaries and allowances payable of all new entrants to public service recruitment grades (including teachers) by 10% with effect from 1 January 2011 and required that such new entrants would start on the first point of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that in February 2015 the school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application to my Department for capital funding for additional school accommodation. This application was refused as the school were considered to have sufficient accommodation available to them. My Department has recently received further correspondence from the school, in respect of the application,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table. 2014/2015 Enrolments, Palliative Care Courses by Institute Full-time Full-time Total Part-time Part-time Total ISCED Discipline Programme Type Institute Course Name Year 1 Year 2 Year 1 Year 2 (0913) Nursing and midwifery Masters Taught (Postgraduate) Trinity College Dublin Palliative Care 11 2 13...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 418 and 419 together. The Devolved Additional Accommodation Scheme together with the Large Scale Projects Programme (new schools and large scale extensions) is the mechanism by which additional permanent school accommodation is delivered. I can inform the Deputy that approximately 76% of the 2015 capital expenditure in the school sector was accounted for in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that in February 2015 the school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application to my Department for capital funding for additional school accommodation. This application was refused as the school were considered to have sufficient accommodation available to them. My Department has recently received further correspondence from the school, in respect of the application,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is not in receipt of any application for funding from the school for the specific works referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Jan 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 additional school accommodation. The application is currently being considered and my Department will be in contact with the school in question in the matter shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy were approved funding by my Department in July 2014 for the provision of a Resource Room to meet their accommodation requirements. In addition, the school were also approved additional funding in December 2014 to address Health and Safety issues at the school. The school have now contacted my Department for further additional funding in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware, in the management of a capital programme, periodically it is necessary to review the scheduling of construction projects within the overall programme. In this context, my Department is currently conducting an expenditure profiling exercise, which will determine when projects, including the project referred to by the Deputy, can advance to site. When the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The building project referred to by the Deputy is included on the six year programme I announced on 17 November 2015 and is listed to proceed to construction in 2016. The original design team appointed to the project had reached completion of Stage 1 of Architectural Planning. As part of that work and following an assessment of the current accommodation, it was agreed by my Department that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: July Provision 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 July Provision for pupils with a severe/profound general learning disability. Where school based provision is not feasible, home based provision may be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Places (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with Government policy in support of the Gaeltacht and the Irish Language, there is a long-standing provision whereby up to 10% of the teacher training places in the colleges of education may be reserved for Gaeltacht applicants. To qualify as a Gaeltacht applicant a person must be resident in an officially designated Gaeltacht area and it must be confirmed that the normal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Funding of over €928 million has been allocated by my Department in 2016 to the higher education institutions under the designation of the Higher Education Authority, including the Universities and Institutes of Technology. This amounts to c. €4,737 per full time equivalent student (where part-time students are calculated at 0.5 FTE). A 10% increase in per capita funding would...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has approved payment of a grant to provide communication supports to the child referred to by the Deputy.A letter of sanction of this grant has issued to the school concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Recognition (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 431 and 432 together. My Department is currently considering an application for permanent recognition from the school referred to by the Deputy. When this process has been completed, my Department will convey a decision to the school authorities. During the period of provisional recognition, it is the responsibility of the school patron to provide interim...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Human Rights Judgments (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I would like to assure the Deputy that I have discussed this matter with my Cabinet colleagues. The Deputy may be aware that under the European Convention on Human Rights system, states' implementation of judgments are supervised by the Committee of Ministers. Supervision of Ireland's implementation of the O'Keeffe judgment is being done under the enhanced method of supervision which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Human Rights Judgments (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has obtained legal advice in association with the Attorney General on the implications of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgement for cases current at the time of the judgement and new school child abuse cases. The Government subsequently agreed, in December 2014, that out of court settlements be offered in those extant cases of school child sexual abuse being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school to which the Deputy refers applied to my Department for capital funding for classroom reconfiguration, an additional classroom and an ASD Unit. The application concerned has been assessed and my Department has advised the school that as it considers that there is sufficient accommodation at the school to meet the school needs, it is not in a position to agree to the school's...