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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (13 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Pension entitlements for teachers are determined in accordance with the relevant pension scheme. Professional registration of teachers is a separate matter. The Teaching Council is the body with statutory responsibility for the registration of teachers including the recognition of teaching qualifications. Any teacher who wishes to make enquiries regarding his/her registration status should...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (13 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Recommendations for changes to initial teacher education were included in the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People 2011-2020 and have been incorporated into the Teaching Council's Policy Paper on the Continuum of Teacher Education and Criteria and Guidelines for Programme Providers. Both were published in 2011. The improvements to be made to post...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (13 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: For student grants purposes, a student may be assessed as an independent student if he/she has attained the age of 23 on the 1st of January of the year of first entry to an approved post leaving certificate course or an approved higher education course or of re-entry to an approved course following a break in studies of at least three years, and is not ordinarily resident with his/her parents...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (13 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter for the relevant grant awarding authority. The Deputy will appreciate that in the absence of all of the relevant details that would be contained in an individual's application form it would not be possible for me to say whether or not a student would qualify for a grant. Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (13 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations including organising the holding of examinations, determining procedures in places where examinations are conducted including the supervision of examinations and making arrangements for the marking of work presented for examination. In view of this I have forwarded...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Issues (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 115 to 118, inclusive, together. The Redress Board was established under the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 to make financial awards to those, who as children were resident in scheduled institutions and who have or have had injuries that are consistent with abuse received while resident in the institutions. Abuse is defined in the 2002 Act and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that I recently published new anti-bullying procedures for all primary and post primary schools. These new procedures have been developed following consultation with the relevant education partners and replace guidelines that were issued to schools in 1993. The procedures are designed to give direction and guidance to school authorities and school personnel in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Equipment Grants (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Grant aid is available to primary and post primary schools to fund the purchase of furniture/equipment for educational purposes for special needs pupils. Changing benches are included in that category. On the basis of the information submitted by the school authority the equipment that they requested grant aid for is outside the scope of aid provided by my Department. The school principal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The main financial support available to students attending higher education is my Department's Student Grant Scheme. Under the terms of the Student Grant Scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students who meet the prescribed conditions of funding including those which relate to nationality, residency, approved course, previous academic attainment and means. There was no change in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The New Schools Establishment Group recently submitted its report to me as part of the patronage determination process for the new post-primary schools due to open in 2015 and 2016. This includes the proposed new post-primary school for Balbriggan. I am considering the Report and I expect to be in a position to announce my decision shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: 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, including the allocation of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools. The NCSE operates within my Department's established criteria for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) that in the case of the student referred to by the Deputy her application has been assessed and a letter informing her of the outcome will issue shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Net Voted Allocation for my Department's Vote in 2013 is €7.927 billion. In a Vote this size, it is not unusual for actual expenditure, at a given point in time, to be at variance with the profile of expenditure prepared at the beginning of the year. Net projected current expenditure of €6.186 billion at the end of October 2013, was running €114 million or 1.8% behind...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Teacher allocations are approved annually in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. Preparation for the staffing and redeployment process for the 2014/15 school year is currently underway in my Department. The staffing arrangements for all schools for the 2014/15 school year will be published early in 2014. The Teaching Council has responsibility for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Overseas Students Data (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The United States is a priority market for the promotion of Irish education under the Government's International Education Strategy 2010-2015. Over 8,500 US students studied in Ireland in 2013. The most recent US data from the Institute of International Education, released just yesterday, indicates that Ireland has retained its position as one of the top ten destinations of choice for US...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Regulations (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has produced a suite of technical guidance documents, which are available on my Department's website, www.education.ie, to assist design teams in best practice in the design and development of schools in green field site situations. These documents cover all aspects of the development of a building project for both internal and external works....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Strategy (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Implementation Plan which sets out the actions necessary to implement the recommendations in the National Strategy for Higher Education is available on my Department's website at . The Plan also identifies the lead organisations and the timeframe for implementation of each action. A detailed progress report on the implementation of all of the actions in the Plan to the end of 2012 is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department. Officials of my Department have asked the Higher Education Authority for details which will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: 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...