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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The purpose of the Home Tuition Scheme is to provide a compensatory educational service for children, who for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend to attend school. The scheme also provides a compensatory educational service for children with special educational needs seeking an educational placement. Provision is also made for early educational intervention for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is working closely with Galway County Council to acquire a permanent site for the school to which the Deputy refers. Recent correspondence received by the Department from the Board of Management with regard to the project is currently under consideration. Matters will be kept under review with a view to the progressing of the building project as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. Under this scheme schools can have an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Administration (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Re-engagement, or the formal agreement of quality assurance with Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), is a requirement for legacy providers under the 2012 Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act. The fees to be applied to legacy providers seeking to re-engage with QQI, such as the organisations referred to by the Deputy, have yet to be determined. The charging...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that I recently confirmed the provision of €80 million over 2016 and 2017 for a multi-annual Summer Works Scheme for schools. This funding was initially promised as part of the Budget 2016 investment in schools. The funding will allow schools to carry out small and medium scale building works such as gas, electrical and mechanical works, roof and window...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware, the Duleek area feeds into the post-primary schools in Drogheda. A new post-primary school, Ballymakenny College, opened in September 2014 to cater for the feeder area. The building project for this school, which will cater for 1,000 students, is expected to be completed shortly. My Department recently completed a nationwide demographic exercise to determine...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, I announced details on Tuesday, 17th November, of the major school building projects that are scheduled to proceed to construction over the next six years, as part of the Government's €2.8 billion capital investment programme. I am pleased to advise the Deputy that a project for the schools to which he refers was included in this announcement to proceed to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: All teachers employed under a Contract of Indefinite Duration (CID) receive incremental salary in accordance with the rules governing payment of incremental salary. The number of post primary teachers paid on the payroll issue of the 26th November 2015 who are employed under a CID is 6,357. The number of primary teachers being paid on the payroll issue of the 3rd December 2015 who are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that my Department is in receipt of an application for additional accommodation that involves the purchase of an adjoining site at the school. My Department has been in recent contact with the school authorities who have advised that an alternative proposal is to be submitted. Once received, my Department will consider the matter further and will be in direct contact with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Cases Data (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department. The information is currently being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Data (1 Dec 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the tabular statement below. The following is a tabular statement in relation to the Department of Education & Skills and bodies under its aegis whereby some staff have acquired contract of indefinite duration. It also give details of those contract holders that may qualify for increments where an incremental pay scale applies....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: With regard to the fee-charging Protestant schools, an arrangement exists whereby funding is provided by my Department to the Secondary Education Committee (SEC), an organisation run by the churches involved in managing the Protestant secondary schools. The SEC then disburses funds to the Protestant fee-charging schools on behalf of pupils who would otherwise have difficulty with the cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The first school referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of the tender process. My Department is currently awaiting receipt of the Supplementary Tender Report from the Design Team. Subject to no issues arising it is envisaged the project will proceed to site very shortly thereafter. The second school is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning, Stage 2B Detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 192 and 193 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that my position remains as set out in my PQ response to you of 3rd November 2015 and my further written correspondence to you on 19th November 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has recently received a business case from Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board to establish an education and training facility in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. This business case is currently being examined.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has considered primary school capacity in Navan and wishes to advise the Deputy that there is sufficient capacity between the schools in Navan to meet current and anticipated demand for primary school places. The main focus of my Department's capital investment programme will remain on ensuring that every child has access to a physical school place. This may result in some...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (26 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Seven hundred and thirty pupils approximately are expected to apply for a first year place in the post-primary schools in Navan each year for the years 2016–2018. This number is expected to increase slightly to seven hundred and fifty pupils in the year 2019. The information available to the Department in respect of the forthcoming year, 2016/17 is that all pupils who have applied...