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

Jan O'Sullivan: Officials from my Department recently wrote to the school where the person referred to by the Deputy is employed to advise that the teacher is entitled to a contract of indefinite duration with effect from 1 September 2015.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Since 2006, under the Teaching Council Act 2001 the Teaching Council is the body with statutory responsibility and authority for regulation of the teaching profession including the registration of teachers. Teachers are registered under the Teaching Council [Registration] Regulations 2009. The Teaching Council recognises undergraduate Montessori qualifications (Level 8 on the National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will be aware, in order to qualify for tuition fee funding, students must be first-time undergraduates, hold inter alia EU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss state for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level course. Where students do not qualify for free fees funding they...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is an independent agency with responsibility for determining the appropriate staffing levels in relation to the support of pupils with special educational needs attending Special schools. The NCSE operates within my Department's policy in allocating this support. Staffing arrangements for special schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will be aware, the Cork Life Centre is an out-of-school educational facility in Sundays Well, Cork which supports young people who are not engaging with mainstream education. My Department's contribution to the funding of the Centre commenced in 2000 under the Children at Risk Fund (CAR) and has continued to date to the current level of €47,500 in non-pay funding and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that applications for capital funding for additional accommodation has been received from the school referred to by the Deputy. The school authority has been requested to submit revised proposals and costings for the minimum works necessary to enable the pupil, in question, enroll. As soon as this information is received and considered, the school authority will be informed of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The teacher exchange scheme is designed to facilitate primary teachers to temporarily exchange their posts for education purposes. Under the present scheme the minimum period for which an exchange may occur is one year and the maximum is five years. The Teacher Conciliation Council is part of the scheme of Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme for Teachers and was set up to deal with claims...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (21 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. My Department wrote to the Patron Body in relation to the application and a response is awaited. The matter will be given further consideration when this information is received.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise you that it is not the role of my Department to allocate resource teaching hours or SNA support to schools to support children with special educational needs. As the Deputy is aware, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is an independent statutory agency with responsibility for determining the appropriate staffing levels in relation to the support of pupils...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (21 Jan 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 Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. Where children have significant care needs whereby they may need...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, the project for the school referred to, is included in the 6 Year Construction Programme that I announced on 17 November last. The timeline for when work is expected to proceed is outlined in the announcement. Each project is listed in the year when the commencement of construction works is anticipated. In the case of the school referred to, it is listed to proceed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that differing teacher allocation ratios are applied under the General Allocation Model (GAM) in relation to boys, girls and mixed schools in order to account for differentials of prevalence of learning difficulty between boys and girls. The objective of this differentiation is to ensure that resources provided to schools to support children who have additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, the project for the school referred to, is included in the 6 Year Construction Programme that I announced on 17 November last, and is listed to proceed to tender and construction in the period 2019-21. My Department will be in contact with the school authorities in the near future regarding the progression of the school project.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: In the 2011/12 school year, 13,852 post primary teachers (excluding ETB teachers) were being paid Supervision and Substitution allowance on a pensionable basis. The amount paid was €17.6 million. Teachers who retire during the "grace period" (recently extended by order made by the Minister for Public Expenditure under the FEMPI legislation) have their superannuation benefits...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (21 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that it is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998. The enrolment policy must be non-discriminatory and must be applied fairly in respect of all applicants. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tionscadail Tógála Scoileanna (20 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Mar is eol don Teachta, tá an tionscadal maidir le foirgneamh nua scoile a chur ar fáil, don scoil dá dtagraítear, san áireamh sa Chlár Tógála 6 Bliana a d'fhógair mé ar 17ú Samhain seo caite, agus tá sé liostaithe le dul ar aghaidh chun tairisceana agus tógála sa tréimhse 2019-21. Beidh mo Roinn i...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Maintenance (20 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question has submitted an application for funding for toilet improvement works under the current Summer Works Scheme. Commensurate with the level of funding available for the Summer Works Scheme, applications including that from the school referred to by the Deputy will be assessed on a top down basis in accordance with the prioritisation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (20 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually on the website of the Department of Education and Skills. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing schedule operates in a clear...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (20 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Over the period 2011 to 2015 the following large scale projects were constructed in County Wexford: NEW SCHOOLS 17913Q Scoil Naomh Mhuire, Barntown. 20057R Gaelscoil Inis Corthaidh, Enniscorthy. 76127D Gorey Community College, Gorey. LARGE SCALE EXTENSIONS 17017L Scoil Naomh Phadraig, Crossabeg. 20165U Gaelscoil Mhiosolog, Gorey. 71630K Vocational College, Enniscorthy. All projects...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 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 will be considered and a decision conveyed to the school authority when this process has been completed.