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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Major Building Project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning. The school's Design Team are currently working on a Revised Stage 1 Submission. Arrangements are currently being made for the revised Submission to be presented to my Department. Subject to no further issues arising, the project will then progress to Stage 2(a) - Developed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (28 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials of my Department have been advised by County Cork VEC, who is the employer of this teacher, that his case is being examined. The VEC officials will be in direct contact with the person in the near future.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the facility which she refers to in her question provides a two-year pre-school programme which caters for 3-5 year old children. The Pre-School project referred to is not a designated Primary or Special School, but a stand-alone project in receipt of an individual resourcing mechanism which is separate to the resourcing arrangements which apply to mainstream...

Order of Business (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: They are only winding Deputy McGrath up.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 included 123 specified institutions and section 4 of the Act enabled the Minister for Education and Science to provide for the insertion into the Schedule of"any industrial school, reformatory school, orphanage, children's home, special school which was established for the purpose of providing education services to children with a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Payments (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland that the student referred to by the Deputy has been awarded a post graduate fee contribution, which for the academic year 2012/13 is €2,000.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I can inform the Deputy that all primary and post primary schools have access to psychological assessments either directly through the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS), or through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. Where a NEPS psychologist is not assigned to a school, authorities therein may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware, in June 2011, I announced that 20 new primary schools are to be established in the coming years across a number of locations to meet significantly increasing demographics in those areas. This announcement included a proposal to establish a new primary school in the Knocknacarra area in 2014. The Deputy will be aware of extensive housing developments in this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Funding (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: It is open to all public, private and not for profit higher education providers to submit proposals for courses to be funded under Springboard. All courses approved for funding are selected by an independent panel with industry and educational expertise, having regard to published selection criteria and following a competitive tendering process. A call for proposals for courses to be run...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating resource teachers and 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. This now...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The qualifying criteria for the special rate of maintenance grant in the 2013/14 academic year as specified under the 2013 student grant scheme is as follows: 1. Student must qualify for the standard rate of grant. 2. Total reckonable income net of income disregards and Child Dependant Increase must not exceed €22,703. 3. As at the 31st December 2012, the reckonable income must...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The delivery of the new school referred to my the Deputy has been devolved to County Kildare VEC and is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning and is included on my Department's 5 Year Capital Programme to progress to construction in 2013. The project has completed two stages of Architectural Planning (Stage 1 and Stage 2(a)). It is envisaged that the project will shortly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter for the relevant grant awarding authority. The Deputy will appreciate that in the absence of all of the relevant details that would be contained in an individual's application form, including those relating to residency and or nationality, it would not be possible for me to say whether or not a student would qualify for a grant. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Costs (23 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Legal fees incurred by the State, in defending cases which are brought to court, are generally not met directly by my Department. In accordance with financial procedures in cases involving damages or compensation against the State, costs are generally charged to the Chief State Solicitor's Office Vote as sanctioned by the Attorney General. If expenditure on legal matters does arise it is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Issues (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Grangegorman Development Agency working with the Employment and Training Co-ordinator and the Local Labour and Learning Forum has developed and implemented a Grangegorman Employment Charter. The aim of the Charter is to ensure that the local community benefits from employment opportunities that may arise from the Grangegorman project. The Charter sets out what is required of Contractors...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the July Education Programme is available to all special schools and mainstream primary schools with special classes catering for children with autism who choose to extend their education services through the month of July. My Department also provides for a July Programme for pupils with a severe/profound general learning disability. Where school based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The salary of the person referred to by the Deputy has been adjusted and arrears owed will issue on 6 June 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland that in the case of the student referred to by the Deputy, her student grant application was re-appealed to the appeals officer in SUSI on 9 of May 2013. On that basis, the application is currently being reassessed and the student will be notified directly by SUSI of the outcome. Where an appeal is turned...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions Issues (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Third level institutions are autonomous bodies and my Department has no function in their operational management, including matters relating to the leave arrangements of college staff. The information requested by the Deputy is therefore not available in my Department or the Higher Education Authority (HEA). My Department receives data on a quarterly basis in relation to the whole time...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (22 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The project referred to by the Deputy was recently tendered in line with public procurement procedures and the contract has been awarded to JSL Group Ltd t/a Stewart.