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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (23 Sep 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 are set out in my Department's Circular 0030/2014. All...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (23 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has received a proposal for alternative accommodation from the school to which he refers. In order to fully consider the accommodation issues arising, my Department's technical staff visited the school. Following this visit, the proposal is being considered further and my Department expects to be in a position to convey a decision to the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that my Department is in the process of acquiring a site for the school, referred to by the Deputy. As part of this acquisition process, a technical site visit was carried out in order to assess the site concerned. In addition, my Department is also considering the long term projected pupil enrolment position of the school, in question, and in that regard my Department will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (23 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that a number of sections of the EPSEN Act have been commenced, including those sections establishing the National Council for Special Education and those providing for the inclusive education of children. In light of the very difficult economic situation and the significant costs involved in fully implementing the EPSEN Act, however, the previous Government...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (23 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The rates of grant and the income thresholds for the Student Grant Scheme are announced annually as part of the Budget. No changes to the rates or thresholds were included in Budget 2015. Student grant applications are means tested on gross income from all sources earned inside and outside the State within a specified reference period. The means test arrangements of the Student Grant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Professional Qualifications (23 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware, the Professional Diploma in Mathematics for Teaching is a blended learning, two year part-time programme. It is designed to assist practising 'out-of-field' teachers to acquire the extensive and complex integrated knowledge base, including mathematical and pedagogical knowledge, that is necessary for effective mathematics teaching at post-primary level. The...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Listening to the debate this afternoon I am reminded of Tom Kettle's reflections on politics:there will be always joy and loyalty enough left to keep you unwavering in the faith that politics is not as it seems in clouded moments, a mere gabble and squabble of selfish interests, but that it is the State in action. And the State is the name by which we call the great human conspiracy against...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to oversee the use of the cash contributions of up to €110 million, pledged by the religious congregations, to support the needs of survivors of institutional child abuse. Section 3 of the 2012 Act allows for a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Teaching Council Acts, the Teaching Council is the regulator and standards body for the teaching profession. One of the main functions of the Council is to register teachers. Teachers are registered in accordance with the Teaching Council [Registration] Regulations 2009, which set out the standards teachers must meet if they are to be registered. Regulation 3, covering...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question applied to my Department for funding towards the provision of an additional special education teaching room. My Department has advised the school that the space sought can be provided through reconfiguring existing accommodation. My Department considers that the provision of additional accommodation is therefore not required.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1198, 1199 and 1286 together. My Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions, including Institutes of Technology. The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of funding is then a matter for the individual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The number of teachers on the payroll of my Department in receipt of allowances in respect of the qualifications referred to by the Deputy are contained in the following table. Education and Training Boards (ETBs) employ and pay their own staff and, accordingly, my Department does not have available to it a breakdown of the numbers of ETB teaching staff in the categories requested by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Child and Family Act, 2013, the Child and Family Agency has a primary responsibility to promote the safety and well-being of children. An Garda Síochána also has statutory responsibilities for the safety and welfare of children. Full details of all allegations made by the subject of this PQ were sent on 25th February 2014 to the Child and Family Agency in Ennis Co. Clare...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In its response to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment, the Government agreed in December 2014 that out of court settlements be offered in those extant cases of school child sexual abuse being brought against the State where the cases come within the terms of the ECtHR judgment and satisfy the Statute of Limitations. Subsequently, in July of this year, the Government approved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: University Legal Fees (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: University College Dublin is a party to ongoing litigation arising from and in connection with these named proceedings. In this context the university is not in a position to make comment in respect of any matter concerning proceedings which remain sub judice.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care Education Standards (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are no plans to introduce a single care and education quality programme that comprises the merging of the Tusla's National Early Years Inspectorate and the Inspectorate of the Department of Education and Skills (DES). Responsibility for the Tusla Early Years Inspectorate lies with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs while the Early-Years Education-Focused Inspections (to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Institutions Redress Board was established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 to provide fair and reasonable financial awards to victims of institutional childhood abuse. The closing date for receipt of applications was 15th December 2005. The Board could, however, accept late applications in exceptional circumstances, up until September 2011. The...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The school site referred to by the Deputy is owned by the school authorities. Issues such as those referred to by the Deputy are matters to be addressed between the school authorities and their neighbour. My Department has no role in dealing with the matters to which the Deputy refers.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Councils (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 27 of the Education Act 1998 provides that students of a post primary school may establish a student council and that the schools Boards of Management should encourage, facilitate, and give all reasonable assistance to such ends. While my Department does not engage with student councils at a local level it does provide significant support for their representative body the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (22 Sep 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that a suitable permanent site for a new post primary school to serve the Ballinteer-Stepaside area has been identified and the acquisition process is underway. Given the commercial sensitivities associated with land acquisitions generally I am not in a position to provide further details at this time. I can, however, assure the Deputy that the acquisition of...