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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. It is open to the school to submit an application if they have identified a deficit of classroom accommodation to meet increasing enrolments or to accommodate an additional teacher appointment. Application forms can be accessed on my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, my Department is working closely with Cork County Council under the Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of school sites, towards the acquisition of a permanent site to meet the needs of the school to which he refers. The acquisition of the site is advancing and once it is complete, the school building project will be progressed into architectural planning.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware the school, referred to, is situated on a split campus with the senior school sharing a campus with another primary school. While the school, in question, was approved funding in 2012 under the Prefab Replacement Scheme, the school authorities submitted an alternative proposal to provide all of the proposed replacement accommodation on the senior school's site,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The project to which the Deputy refers is a devolved project being delivered by Louth County Council. The project is at the early stages of architectural planning and the commencement of construction will be dependent on the progress of the project through the various stages of design and the Local Authority planning process.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Special Need Assistants resources are allocated to schools by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). In the case referred to by the Deputy, no sanction has been received in the Payroll Division of my Department as of the 2 November 2015 for an increase in the allocation of Special need assistant hours for the school. If there is a decision made to alter the hours allocated to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (3 Nov 2015)

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. All schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that my Department has received an application for additional accommodation from the school to which the Deputy refers. The application is currently being considered and my Department expects to be in a position to convey a decision on the application to the school authority shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has made an application to my Department for capital funding for the provision of additional accommodation. Additional information sought from the school has recently been received and is currently being considered. My Department will be in direct contact with the school authorities concerned as soon as the assessment process has been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Momentum Programme was designed to provide individuals who are long term unemployed with learning opportunities to assist them to gain in demand skills in sectors of the economy where there are job opportunities. SOLAS will evaluate the outcomes from the Programme and widening of participation in any future iteration will be considered in that context. I am informed by SOLAS that in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Eligibility (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I indicated on 13 October 2015 that a Minor Works Grant for 2015/2016 will be paid to primary schools in November 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise that my Department has no record of receiving an application for any works relating to prefabricated facilities at the school referred to by the Deputy. It is open to the school authorities to submit an application to my Department for consideration. Any application received will be considered in the context of competing demands on my Department's capital budget and other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Career Breaks (3 Nov 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Twenty three staff have been re-instated following a career break since 2012. A further nine were either redeployed at the end of their career break, resigned or retired in the same period. The breakdown for each location in the Department of Education and Skills is outlined in the attached table. Grade Date returned from career break Reason for Career break Athlone S.O. 26/11/2012...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (22 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Responsibility for tackling bullying in schools falls to the level of the individual school. New Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools were published in September 2013. These Procedures and the associated Department Circular 0045/2013 apply to all recognised primary and post-primary schools and to centres for education (as defined in the Education Act 1998) which are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Inspection Reports (22 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Inspectorate of the Department of Education and Skills has no record of having conducted an inspection in St Annin's NS, Rosscahill, Co Galway (RN 14590D) for which a report has still to issue.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: RAPID Programme (22 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Information on the number of students living in or from the defined Rapid area of Ennis, Co. Clare that are or have attended third level education is not available. The Higher Education Authority have however, provided information on the number of enrolments from Co. Clare in higher education for 2012/13 and 2013/14 as follows: 2012/13 - 4,517; 2013/14 - 4,645. In 2014, the HEA carried out...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (22 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that officials in my Department were made aware of the property in question as a possible site location. The property was not considered a viable option as it was subject to ongoing litigation proceedings at the time and in addition it was not considered suitable from a technical perspective.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (22 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I understand that in the case of the student referred to by the Deputy an appeal was considered by the independent Student Grants Appeals Board on 13th October 2015 and the Board's decision issued directly to the appellant. The student was advised of her options in the decision letter. The options are that she may appeal to the High Court on a point of law under Section 21(6) of the Student...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 332 and 336 together. I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has recently made an application to my Department for capital funding for the provision of additional accommodation. The application is currently being considered and further information has been requested from the above mentioned school. Once this information has been received my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that I have made provision in Budget 2016 for some 2,260 additional teaching posts for our primary and post primary schools next year. These posts will provide for an improvement in the staffing schedules at primary and post primary levels, enhance the leadership and management roles of deputy principals at post-primary level by reducing their teaching time, an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from primary and post primary schools for special educational needs supports, including the establishment of special classes in various geographical areas as required. The NCSE operates within my...