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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware, children with special educational needs may be enrolled in a mainstream school and attend all mainstream classes and receive additional teaching support through the learning support and/or resource teacher. If they have assessed care needs they may be supported by a special needs assistant. In respect of children who cannot be accommodated in mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (20 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In February of this year I announced that a new primary school would be opening in September 2016 in the Drumcondra/Marino (Dublin 1) area as well as in Goatstown/Stillorgan and in Cabra/Phibsborough (Dublin 7). My Department runs an open patronage determination process to decide who will operate the schools. I plan to announce a patronage determination process for these new schools...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: This budget really is the culmination of four years of hard work. When we came into office, we inherited a broken economy that had to be fixed. We had to bring stability to our public finances.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy Mattie McGrath will remember what it was like because he participated in the Government that led to it. The creation of jobs was a priority. The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has just referred to the 130,000 real jobs created since 2012. That had to be done and people across the country had to make enormous sacrifices for us to achieve that. Those people...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Since the beginning of the financial crisis, there has been a need to enact a number of measures to reduce public expenditure. The previous Government reduced the salaries and allowances payable of all new entrants to public service recruitment grades (including teachers) by 10% with effect from 1 January 2011 and required that such new entrants would start on the first point of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (14 Oct 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: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application for major capital funding for a new school building to facilitate an amalgamation. As the Deputy will appreciate, due to the competing demands on my Department's capital budget imposed by the need to prioritise the funding available for the provision of essential school classroom accommodation, it is not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Major Building Project referred to by the Deputy, is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning. The Stage 2(b) Submission (Detailed Design) has been approved by the Department, however, as the project was not included in the Department's Five Year Building Programme, the project was not authorised to proceed to tender. The Design Team and Board of Management were informed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, where parents of children who are eligible for home tuition have sought alternative arrangements to be put in place for the tuition, my Department responded and facilitated by putting arrangements in place with private providers, nominated by the parents, who provide group tuition to children in a class-type setting. In all cases parents had the option of having the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school to which the Deputy refers is recognised by my Department in accordance with the terms of the Education Act 1998. The Minister for Defence and the Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin are joint Patrons of the school. The functions of a Patron and a Board of Management, which are also set out in the Act, are common to Patrons and Boards of Management operating all State recognised...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school building project referred to by the Deputy is included on the current 5 year construction programme announced in 2012. It is listed on the programme to proceed to tender and construction in 2015/16. The major building project is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning - Stage 2b (Detailed Design) which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The students to which the Deputy refers, recently appealed the decision of the awarding authority to the independent Student Grants Appeals Board (SGAB). The appeal will be heard within the 60 day timeframe set out in the Student Support Act 2011. The decision of the SGAB will be communicated directly to the students in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 99 and 100 together. A submission in relation to the establishment of a second level Gaelcholáiste to serve the Dublin West and South Meath area has been received by my Department. My Department's five-year construction plan is focused on meeting demographic demands to ensure that every child and young person will have access to a physical school place....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: All mainstream Primary schools have been allocated additional teaching resources under the General Allocation Model (GAM) to cater for children with high incidence special educational needs, including Specific Learning Disability (SLD), of which dyslexia is one such SLD. All Post Primary schools have also been allocated additional teaching resources for pupils with high incidence special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (14 Oct 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: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (14 Oct 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 Contracts (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As previously stated in responses to Parliamentary Questions, including those referred to by the Deputy, my Department has put in place arrangements for the payment of the home tuition grant to a number of providers, on a group rate basis, where parents of children who are eligible for home tuition have sought alternative arrangements with these providers. My Department has no contract...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Purpose of the Home Tuition Scheme is to provide compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable 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 children with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the roof repair forms part of the school's proposed major building project. In this regard, the school will commence the Design Team appointment process in the coming weeks. The Project Manager has already been appointed and has carried out a site visit to the school. Until planning permission and all statutory approvals have been secured, it is not possible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware a technical inspection of a significant number of potential site options for the school accommodation to which he refers has been conducted by officials from my Department working with officials from Donegal County Council. My officials are currently considering the findings of this assessment and, with the assistance of the Local Authority, are clarifying technical...