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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In the past ten years, total pupil enrolment in our first and second level schools has risen by almost 100,000 pupils. The bulk of this increase has been at first level and it is now feeding through to second level. Enrolment levels are still rising annually at both levels and an estimated 55,000 additional places will be required nationally by 2022. Clearly, this level of additionality will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that my Department is in receipt of an application for additional accommodation from the school referred to by the Deputy. The application is currently being considered and my Department will be in direct contact with the school authorities concerned as soon as the assessment process has been concluded.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Grants Online Application system for the 2015/16 academic year is still open although the deadline for receipt of applications for priority processing has passed. Late applications will continue to be accepted by SUSI until early November. Final 2015/16 outturn information will not be available until after the deadline for receipt of applications has passed and all applications have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy recently submitted a Major Capital Application for an extension and refurbishment project. In addition the school in question also submitted an application under the Additional Accommodation scheme to meet its immediate accommodation needs. As the Deputy will appreciate, due to the competing demands on my Department's capital...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Details of total capital funding expended on a county basis on primary and post primary capital projects between 2000 and 2010 are shown in the table below. The structure and diversity of some grant schemes are such that they do not lend themselves to extracting data readily on a county basis. Funding under such schemes appear under the general heading "other". Expenditure on third level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Grants are available under the student grant scheme for students attending approved courses in approved institutions in further and higher education. In the 2014/15 academic year there were 80,551 grant holders and expenditure amounted to €353,481,954.18.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Grants are available under the student grant scheme for students attending approved courses in approved institutions at further and higher education. Grants are paid to qualifying students in respect of maintenance, fees and/or student contribution. The answers to the specific questions posed by the Deputy are as follows: -1,603 mature students qualified to have their tuition fees paid for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In July 2015 the school referred to by the Deputy was requested to submit an application for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to address health and safety issues at their school. To date no application has been received. Should an application be received it will be assessed and the school authority will be notified of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Agencies Board Appointments (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The current Council of the NCSE were appointed in accordance with new arrangements for appointments to State Boards, introduced by this Government in 2011. There is no remuneration or fee for the position. However, travel and subsistence allowances are paid in respect of journeys undertaken to attend meetings of the Board or to transact its business. A total of €645.92 travel and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care Education (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Childcare providers participating in the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) are in contract with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to deliver the pre-school year free of charge to qualifying children enrolled in their service. It is a condition of this contract that any deposit paid by a parent to a childcare provider to secure a place under the ECCE programme, where the...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: There are a significant number of expenditure components and sources of funding to primary and post primary education which make up the total national allocation. Therefore, any attempt at geographical disaggregation of the national data would be a complex and resource intensive process and is therefore not available to be provided to the Deputy. The general position is that my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Lottery Funding Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Since 2015 all expenditure incurred from the Education and Skills Vote – Vote 26 is funded directly by the Exchequer. The Revised Estimates Volume (REV) which, is published annually, contains details on a Vote by Vote basis of those programmes that are part-funded by both the National Lottery and the Exchequer. (Reference page 224 of the 2015 REV). There are no programmes in my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department remains committed to providing permanent accommodation for the first named school to which he refers. It is my Department's intention that the school in question will relocate to the premises currently occupied by the second named school pending the construction of a new school for the latter. The building project for this school is at an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Dublin consortium consisting of the Dublin Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown and Institute of Technology Tallaght, submitted a plan towards merger to the Higher Education Authority in 2014. This was assessed by an international expert panel appointed by the HEA and found to be on a clear trajectory to meet the very robust performance and quality criteria that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In March, 2014 the school referred to by the Deputy was sanctioned a devolved grant under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme. Recently the school authority submitted an application for additional funding and my Department's Planning and Building Unit has request further information in respect of this application. As soon as this information is received and considered the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major building project referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning - Stage 2b (Detailed Design) which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire Cert, Disability Access Cert and the preparation of Tender Documents. All statutory approvals have been secured. The Stage 2b submission has been reviewed by my Department and the Design...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school building project referred to by the Deputy is included in the Five Year Construction Programme to proceed to Tender and Construction. The school building project is at an early stage of the Architectural Planning process. Earlier this year, the Department met with officials from the ETB regarding progression of the project. Following this meeting, further information was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The finances of recognised primary schools are a matter for the Boards of Management of these schools. Boards should budget in such a way as to enable them to meet their commitments and their expenditure should not exceed their income. The running costs of recognised primary schools are not budgeted for individually by the Department. It would not be feasible to grant aid approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for allocating 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, which is set out in my Department's Circular 0030/2014. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is extremely difficult to make precise comparisons between the levels of grants paid and the actual costs of running schools at primary and post primary levels. However it is self evident that the maintenance and running costs for second level schools are much greater on a unit cost basis than those in primary schools. In general, second level schools are larger than primary schools and...