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Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (17 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: Bus Éireann, which operates the school transport scheme, on behalf of my Department, has advised that the number of tickets issued to post primary pupils in Cavan and Monaghan, as of 31/12/2008, were 1,959 and 2,219 respectively. The number of tickets issued to primary pupils for Cavan and Monaghan in 2007 was 1,952 and 1,631 respectively; more recent figures are not readily available. The...

Written Answers — Home-School Liaison Scheme: Home-School Liaison Scheme (17 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: Home School Community Liaison coordinator posts are provided on a full time or shared basis between schools. Due to the nature of the work of HSCL coordinators, which focuses directly on the salient adults in children's educational lives, coordinators must be deployed to do full-time liaison duties only to avoid any potential conflict of interest. The role also requires the flexibility to be...

Written Answers — Youthreach Programme: Youthreach Programme (17 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: The Youthreach programme provides two years integrated education, training and work experience to young people aged 15-20 years who left school early without any qualifications or vocational training and are unemployed. There are currently almost 6,000 places available nationally under the Youthreach umbrella. Almost 3,700 of these are funded by my Department and delivered in just over 100...

Written Answers — Home-School Liaison Scheme: Home-School Liaison Scheme (16 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: Home School Community Liaison coordinator posts are provided on a full time or shared basis between schools. Due to the nature of the work of HSCL coordinators, which focuses directly on the salient adults in children's educational lives, coordinators must be deployed to do full-time liaison duties only to avoid any potential conflict of interest. The role also requires the flexibility...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (11 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of the School Transport Scheme for Children with Special Needs a child is eligible for transport if s/he is attending the nearest recognised: mainstream school, special class/special school or a unit, that is or can be resourced, to meet the child's special educational needs under Department of Education and Science criteria. The pupil referred to by the Deputy in the...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this significant debate. Any person who has looked at Mr. Justice Ryan's report or, more likely, has read newspaper coverage of its contents cannot fail to have been moved by the harrowing accounts of what transpired in the institutions mentioned therein. That it was the State which was responsible in many cases for referring these children to the care...

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this counter-motion of confidence in the Government. There is no doubt that Fianna Fáil and the Green Party had a bad election. However, it would not be in the national interest for the Government to resign now. That would compound the problems facing the country at this time. It is the duty of the Government to take decisions and to...

Written Answers — Pension Levy: Pension Levy (10 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: Vocational Education Committees (VECs) employ staff on a full-time and part-time basis to deliver various adult education courses and programmes. Under Section 2 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 a person is liable to pay the pensions-related deduction if he or she is a public servant on or after the 1 March 2009 and is a member of a public service pension...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (10 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: The actual cost of providing school transport services on Saturday the 6th June, 2009 is not yet available. However, Bus Éireann estimate that the cost will be in the region of €750,000.

Written Answers — School Completion Programme: School Completion Programme (9 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: The latest Retention Report published by the Department of Education and Science provides data on the cohort of pupils who entered the first year of the junior cycle in 1997, 1998 and 1999 most of whom completed their senior cycle five to six years following the year of intake. This is the third such report tracking pupil retention and the trend is showing yearly improvements in retention...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (9 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme, pupils who reside 3.2 kilometres or more from, and are attending, their nearest suitable national school as determined by my Department, are eligible for free school transport. The parents of the pupils living in the area referred to by the Deputy should liaise with their local Bus Éireann office in order to determine...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (9 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), the action plan for educational inclusion, provides for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and an integrated School Support Programme (SSP). DEIS brings together and builds upon a number of existing interventions in schools with concentrated levels of disadvantage. The process of identifying schools for...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (9 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: The school transport scheme, which is operated by Bus Éireann on my Department's behalf, facilitates the transportation of over 135,000 children to primary and post-primary schools each day. School transport is a very significant operation involving about 42 million journeys and over 82 million kilometres on 6,000 routes every school year. The introduction of the annual charge which...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (9 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: The annual charges for school transport services are being increased from the first term of the 2009/10 school year as follows: Eligible post-primary pupils (junior) from €168 to €300 (78% increase) Eligible post-primary pupils (senior) from €234 to €300 (28% increase) Concessionary post-primary pupils from €234 to €300 (28% increase) Concessionary primary pupils from €120 to...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (9 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: The provision of school meals which is primarily funded by the School Meals Programme, administered by my colleague, the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, is among the many measures available to schools participating in DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), the Action Plan for Educational Inclusion and other schools included in older disadvantaged schemes. Educational...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (9 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme, pupils who reside 3.2 kilometres or more from, and are attending, their nearest suitable national school as determined by my Department, are eligible for free school transport. The parents of the pupils living in the area referred to by the Deputy should liaise with their local Bus Éireann office in order to determine...

Written Answers — Education Projects: Education Projects (9 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: The project to which the Deputy refers, is an Afterschool Support Project, which my Department has funded since 2000 under the Fund for the Development of Targeted Educational Responses to Certain Children at Risk. This project is among a number of projects which are currently being evaluated by the Evaluation, Support and Research Unit in conjunction with the Inspectorate of the Regional...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (9 Jun 2009)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme, pupils who reside 3.2 kilometres or more from, and are attending, their nearest suitable national school as determined by my Department, are eligible for free school transport. Children who are not eligible may avail of concessionary transport subject to a number of terms and conditions, including the availability of spare...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: The case referred to by the Deputy, in the details supplied, is subject of an appeal to the Independent School Transport Appeals Board. The School Transport Appeals Board is scheduled to sit on Thursday 18th June 2009. The Family will be advised of the decision thereafter.

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: School transport ticket invoices for the 2009/2010 School Year will be issued by Bus Eireann in July 2009. The payment options being offered to parents are as follows: - Payment of the full amount by the deadline date of 31 July 2009 - Spreading the amount due over two payments payable in July and December 2009. Parents who pay the full annual charge, in advance, will benefit from...