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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Eligibility (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no record of receiving an application from the school to which he refers for the works outlined. The works in question are appropriate to the Summer Works Scheme, the purpose of which is to devolve funding to individual school authorities to facilitate carrying out small and medium scale capital works that will improve and upgrade...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The last Budget included an increase in spending on education for the first time in recent years, amounting to additional funding of €60m during 2015. That increase has provided funding for 1,700 additional teachers and SNAs to be recruited for our schools, as well as funding important reforms. However, it was not possible to secure the funding which would be required to also increase...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The staffing arrangements for primary schools for the 2015/16 school year are set out in Department Circular 0005/2015 which is available on my Department's website. The circular sets out the improvements to the staffing schedule for the 2015/16 school year for small schools. These improvements are improved retention thresholds for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th classroom teacher and also the improved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take questions 523 and 524 together. The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually on the website of the Department of Education and Skills. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Provisional data on the number of mainstream pupils in the 2014/2015 school year is available by individual primary school on my Department's website at the following link . This includes information on the number of mainstream class teachers.Final data in relation to the 2014/15 school year will be published later in the current school year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Expenditure (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware the Minor Works Grant for the school year 2014/2015 was issued to all primary schools last December. For the first time the grant issued to schools with provisional recognition only. As I said on 4 March 2015 before the Select Committee on Education and Skills with regards to the Minor Works Grant 2015/2016, the normal practice is for that to be announced later in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. Under this scheme schools can have an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Principal duties in small to medium sized schools are carried out by teaching principals. Teaching principals are provided with release time in order to assist them fulfilling their principal duties. Under these arrangements my Department pays for a substitute teacher to be employed by a school so that the principal can come out of the classroom. Under the current arrangements the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Economic constraints and the moratorium on filling posts of responsibility, albeit alleviated to some extent for schools, have presented challenges within the education sector. They also provide an opportunity to review the role of the principal so that our principals are leaders of learning, and to reconfigure the middle management structure to support principals in their role, ensuring...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is an operational matter for the City of Dublin ETB and I have asked them to contact the Deputy directly to clarify the position.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The position is that the teacher referred to by the Deputy in correspondence reference number 1501403BC has been awarded an Honours Primary Degree allowance. Any arrears due are scheduled to be paid on the 2nd July 2015.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The July Education Programme is available to all special schools and mainstream primary schools with special classes catering for children with autism that choose to extend their education services through the month of July. This Department also provides for a July Programme for pupils with a severe/profound general learning disability. Where school based provision is not feasible, home based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The correspondence supplied by the Deputy was referred to me separately by Taoiseach for my attention. A response issued from my office to the correspondent of that letter on 20th May 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The decision on eligibility for new student grant applications is a matter for the centralised grant awarding authority, SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland). The Deputy will appreciate that in the absence of all of the relevant details that would be contained in an individual's application form it would not be possible for me to say whether a student should qualify for a grant or what...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is working closely with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in relation to acquiring suitable sites for the schools in question. A suitable site has been identified for the primary school and I can confirm that the conveyancing process is at an advanced stage. The Deputy will be aware that this school was established in 2012 and is currently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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 teaching and Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support to schools to support children with special educational needs and additional care needs, respectively. The NCSE operates within my Department's...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, my Department is working closely with Donegal County Council in relation to acquiring a suitable site for the school to which he refers. I can confirm that a suitable site has been identified and the acquisition is at an advanced stage. This project has commenced architectural planning and officials from my Department met with the representatives of the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Facilities (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I appreciate the concerns regarding the availability of accommodation for students and for that reason I have asked the HEA to report on this issue.The HEA are currently working on a draft report on student accommodation which will be available shortly and will give us an up to date picture of the situation. Some institutions provide a range of accommodation, and all colleges have an...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has received an application for additional 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 earlier this month. Following this visit, the application is being considered further and my Department expects to be in a position to convey a...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested is provided in the tables. Table 2.25. Net Change in the Number of National Schools Number of National Schools on 30 September 2012 3,152 Number of New Schools brought into operation in the period 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013 16 Number of schools discontinued or amalgamated with other schools in the period 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013 23 Number...