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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (19 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: Departmental Staff (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Pension Unit of my Department is responsible for policy, regulatory, advice and operational functions relating to the pensions of staff within the education sector. Within this work, priority is given to processing retirement benefits (lump sum payments and fortnightly pensions) for teachers and non-teaching staff who are scheduled to retire and to spouses/children of deceased...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 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 next steps to be taken to progress the school project into the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 425 to 427, inclusive, together. My Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions. The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of funding is then a matter for the individual institution and my Department has no...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The responsibility for managing access to third level places rests with the Central Applications Office (CAO) and the third level institutions generally. The higher education institutions have delegated to the CAO the task of processing applications to their first year undergraduate courses. However, the participating institutions retain the function of making decisions on admissions....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that 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 (SNAs) to schools to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Education Finance Board (EFB) was financed by the €12.7 million contribution provided by the religious congregations under the 2002 Indemnity Agreement. It allowed for educational support for former residents and their families. The fund was exhausted in 2011 and the investment account used by the EFB was closed and the Board dissolved. The legislation which subsequently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The project to which the Deputy refers is being delivered by the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). It is at stage 2A (developed sketch scheme)of the design process. An examination of the design team's stage 2A submission was recently completed in the Department and the Department has since been in contact with the KWETB to make arrangements for the normal meeting with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Weight of Schoolbags (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The report of the Working Group on the Weight of School Bags recognised that many of the solutions to this issue belong at local school level and made various recommendations in this regard, such as optimum use of storage facilities, developing pupil organisation skills and timetabling. My Department issued circulars to all primary and post-primary schools in 2005 to highlight the potential...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the number of Special Needs Assistants allocated to primary and post-primary schools for the 2010/11 school year was 10,543 as at May 2011. In 2015, 11,940 SNAs were available for allocation to primary and secondary schools, of which 11,820 were initially allocated in September 2015. The Statistics Section of my Department's website contains extensive data...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: A Qualification Allowance in respect of a Pass Primary Degree is paid to 7,199 Primary Teachers. Qualification allowances were abolished for teachers appointed after the 1 February 2012. The full details are outlined in Circular 8/2013 which can be accessed on my Department website. Due to other priority commitments at present it is not possible to obtain data in relation to the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (19 Jan 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: School Accommodation (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 437, 438 and 442 together. The information sought is being compiled, and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will be aware, this school opened in temporary accommodation in 2014 and a permanent site is being acquired. With regard to permanent accommodation, due to the commercially sensitive nature of land acquisitions generally it is not possible to give an indication of site location or other information at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware my Department provides for a range of placement options and supports for schools which have enrolled pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in order to ensure that, wherever a child is enrolled, they will have access to an appropriate education. Children with ASD may be enrolled in a mainstream school and can attend all mainstream classes. In such cases these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 444 to 446, inclusive, together. This is an operational matter for SOLAS who manage the Safe Pass programme. I have asked SOLAS to contact the Deputy directly to provide the information.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Promotions (19 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Following the changes to eligibility requirements for promotion of staff in the Civil Service, which arose following the implementation of new cross streaming arrangements recommended in a Report of the Commission for Public Service Appointments (CPSA), the Department of Education and Skills has promoted one Clerical Officer (CO) to the position of Higher Executive Officer (HEO) and one...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (14 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will certainly look for appropriate time so that we will not have to guillotine it. That does not mean bringing it in at the earliest possible moment.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (14 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My understanding is that it has to start all over again. Is that correct?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (14 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is really a matter for the Committee of Public Accounts, which has very specific procedures for dealing with such matters. The provision does not mean the president cannot express views on a variety of issues outside of that context but we are dealing here with a very specific context of accounting for the spending of moneys within the institution. I do not know the Standing Orders of...