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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Concurrent with managing legal proceedings that have been initiated in relation to the Grangegorman project, a request for planning permission has been lodged for the PPP phase. This is evidence of my Department's determination to overcome difficulties associated with the legal proceedings in the interest of expediting delivery of the project.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 450 and 451 together. In Budget 2011, the qualifying distance criterion for entitlement to the higher non-adjacent rate of grant, in place since 1968, changed from 15 miles (24 kilometres) to 28 miles (45 kilometres). This measure took effect for all students, both new and renewal, from the start of the 2011/2012 academic year. The percentage split...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 452 and 453 together. The eligibility criteria for student grants including the income thresholds is reviewed annually in my Department and approved by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The aim of the student grant scheme has always been to make a contribution to the cost of going to college, covering the full cost has never been a feasible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 454 and 455 together. Cases of genuine estrangement are relatively rare and almost always will involve exceptional circumstances unique to a particular family situation. The scheme does not stipulate precisely how an awarding authority satisfies itself that such circumstances prevail. This is to allow the awarding authority sufficient flexibility to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The purpose of the student grant scheme is to provide additional assistance where parental income is below a certain threshold or in the case of independent mature students, where the level of income of the student and his or her spouse warrants additional assistance by way of a grant. Classification as an independent mature student has to be carefully considered with regard to two...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 457 and 458 together. Due to economic circumstances, a number of difficult expenditure reduction measures were taken in recent budgets. A decision in Budget 2012 has meant that new students entering postgraduate courses from the 2012/13 academic year onwards are not entitled to maintenance payments under the Student Grant Scheme, but may qualify in some...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The objective of the student grant scheme is to help as many students as possible to obtain one qualification at each level of study. To satisfy the terms and conditions of the student grant scheme in relation to progression, a student must be moving from year to year within a course, having successfully completed the previous year or be transferring from one course to another where the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Student Support Act 2011, applications for student grants are assessed with regard to the Student Grant Scheme and Student Support Regulations of the relevant year. In order to be approved for student grant funding, the eligibility criteria set out in this legislation must be satisfied and this includes that a student meets the criteria in relation to progression within their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools is published annually on the Department's website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing process includes an appeals mechanism for schools to submit an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with Section 18 of the Education Act 1998, schools (other than those established or maintained by an Education and Training Board) are required to keep all proper and usual accounts and records of all monies received by it or expenditure of such monies incurred by it and must ensure that in each year all such accounts are properly audited or certified in accordance with best...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: 11,330 SNA posts, an increase of 365 posts, or over 3%, are available to the NCSE to allocate to the end of 2015. All schools were asked to apply to NCSE for SNA support for the 2015/16 school year by 18th March 2015. The NCSE also continued to accept applications after this date in recognition that enrolments may not have been completed or where assessments were not completed. On conclusion...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 464 to 468, inclusive, together. The National Council for Special Education(NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating SNA support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. The NCSE operates within my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 469 to 473, inclusive, together. The National Council for Special Education(NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating SNA support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. The NCSE operates...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 474 to 477, inclusive, together. Details of Resource teaching and SNA allocations which have been made to schools by the NCSE for the 2012/2013, 2013/14 and 2014/15 school years are available on the NCSE website www.ncse.ie and can be viewed on a per county basis. I will arrange to have the Deputy's question referred to the NCSE for their direct reply in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 478 to 480, inclusive, together. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating SNA support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. The NCSE operates within my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 Jul 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 SNA support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support and these criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that provision has already been made to account for the majority of the funds realised from the sale of the property in question. My Department is currently engaged with Longford Westmeath ETB in relation to the utilisation of the balance of the funds involved for necessary capital works.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 Jul 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 SNA support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support and these criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Languages Programme (7 Jul 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Department, through its Post-Primary Languages Initiative, has developed a specification for a short course in Irish Sign Language (ISL) which will be available as part of the new Junior Cycle. In this short course the emphasis is on developing communication skills in ISL at level A1 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). This short course develops students' ability to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 Jul 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 SNA support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support and these criteria...