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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: If they are allocated. I presume we will have to await what the schools present and what we are told we need to provide.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: From within our existing resources, we can provide for the 500 for the first part of the academic year 2013-14, that is, up to the end of 2013.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I am told we had not budgeted for the extra demand but we had budgeted for the 500 for this financial year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: To deal first with Deputy McConalogue's questions, we cannot finalise our costings with regard to the potential savings because both the TUI and the ASTI teacher unions have decided to ballot their members on whether they want to accept Haddington Road or not. That will not become known to us until September as they will have to wait until the schools are back before they ballot their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: It is what the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is assigning if either the Haddington Road agreement is implemented in full or the alternative arises, namely, the changes in the FEMPI legislation. Presumably, it is a mixture of those two but it could change if the teachers change their attitude. I do not want to say anything which would in any way prejudice this as it is an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: It would be controversial. This committee might like to talk to Mr. Stack and his people to examine it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: If one assumed the distribution of medical conditions such as autism, Asperger's syndrome, are evenly distributed across the profile of the entire population, we cannot say the resources are evenly distributed because a person who can afford to get a diagnosis for his or her child can access resources. We have received correspondence from people, many of whom have borrowed money. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Years ago, before the troika arrived on these shores, Cabinet Ministers spoke of the Department of Finance's "Asgard list" of unthinkable possibilities such as selling off the Book of Kells and the Asgard. Obviously I am joking and referring to the last century. It was a frighteners' list, and there is a modern version of it but I will not say its name. The principle that informs the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the three Deputies for their questions. I will ask the Minister of State to come in if he wishes to address some of the issues that have been raised. As a background to this, we are very conscious in the Department that we are asking everybody in the system to do more with less, that there are many pressures and that many families are under pressure. Schools and the education...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the committee for the invitation to discuss the pre-budget position for the Department of Education and Skills for 2014. I welcome the initiative to enhance the role of the Oireachtas committees in the Estimates and budgetary process. I am happy to hear inputs from committee members that could assist the Government in formulating the education and skills element of the budget. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The information requested by the Deputy for the 2012/13 school year to date is outlined in the attached document. The precise capitation to be paid to the College in the 2013/14 school year will be a function later this year of the actual enrolment in the College and any decisions the Government may take in respect of the next budget.Budget 2012 provided for a further reduction in capitation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: ACELS (Accreditation and Co-ordination of English Language Services) is the body responsible for the development and management of an inspection/ recognition scheme for English Language Teaching organisations (ELTOs) within Ireland. The non-statutory functions of ACELS were previously part of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI). The NQAI was merged, along with HETAC and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to confirm for the Deputy that the responsibility for day to day management of schools is at local school level. Responsibility for the recruitment and selection of school personnel rests with the Board of Management. If the Board of Management of a school decides to engage a person the Board must ensure that appropriate selection procedures have been followed and that the person is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (17 Jul 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 resource teachers and Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools. The NCSE operates within my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Irish Research Council (IRC), which is funded by my Department, has a broad remit to support and enhance human capital development, in particular at postgraduate and early stage postdoctoral researcher levels, and encourage independent exploratory research. Selection is on the basis of excellence following assessment by expert independent panels, whose membership is primarily...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Article 13(6) is the relevant article in the 2012 student grant scheme providing for second chance students. The intention of this article is to focus resources on second chance and mature students. The five years break in studies will ensure that the emphasis is, as intended, on facilitating these students to return to education. I understand from Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Internationalisation Register is administered by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) on behalf of my Department and the Department of Justice and Equality. The criteria for inclusion of programmes in the Internationalisation Register were determined by these three bodies and are consistent with the immigration regime. Further information on the Internationalisation Register is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (17 Jul 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Contracts for two major school building projects in Tramore have been awarded in the last four years. The details of the tenders awarded are as follows: 1. Holy Cross Primary School, the contract for which was awarded to BAM Building Ltd, Kill, Co Kildare; 2. Ardscoil na Mara Post Primary School, one of eight schools in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Schools Bundle 3 Project, the...