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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, my Department approved significant funding to the school in question earlier this year to provide an extension comprising 2 x 80m² Mainstream Classrooms and 2 x 16m² Resource Rooms to provide additional accommodation and to replace prefab units. This additional permanent accommodation will significantly enhance the school's accommodation. The school recently...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: This is an operational matter for SOLAS and I have asked them to contact the Deputy directly regarding his request.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the existing arrangements vacant posts are filled in the first instance through redeployment. The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) Scheme which is under the remit of my Department, provides schools with additional adult support staff to provide for the care needs of children with special educational needs attending schools. The Health Service Executive (HSE) does not provide funding towards the provision of Special Needs Assistant support in Schools. Circular 0030/2014, which is...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The policy of my Department is to ensure, as far as possible, that the Managerial Authorities of Primary and Post Primary schools give priority to unemployed registered teachers who are fully qualified when filling vacant teaching posts. It is schools that employ teachers and not my Department. However my Department has issued a number of Circulars addressing this issue in recent years. Under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to firstly advise the Deputy that the Board of Management of each school is responsible for the care and safety of all of the pupils in their school. Schools are required to take all reasonable precautions to ensure pupil safety and should put appropriate provision in place to safeguard the safety and health of pupils. The classroom teacher is responsible for educating all pupils in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (23 Jun 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...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Principal duties in medium to large sized schools are carried out by administrative principals. Principal duties in small to medium sized schools are carried out by teaching principals. Circular 25/02 which is available on the Department website outlines the number of days that teaching principals may take as release time in a school year in order to assist them fulfilling their principal...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Teacher allocations to all schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. The staffing schedule at primary level operates on the basis of 1 classroom teacher for an average of every 28 pupils, with lower thresholds for DEIS Band 1 schools. Each one point adjustment to the current 28:1 schedule at primary level is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The new school building referred to by the Deputy was devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery and has been completed in accordance with the planning permission granted by Kerry County Council. The site has been landscaped to compliment the topography of the site and surrounding green area. The completed building has two external 585m² ball courts, a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The correspondence to which the Deputy refers relates to a representation made to me in regard to pension entitlement. This issue was previously appealed to me and a determination was made under the process known as the Internal Dispute Resolution Procedure (IDR). A determination issued to the person concerned, in accordance with the appeal process (IDR) on 16 December 2013. There is no...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Universities and institutes of technology, as autonomous institutions under the terms of the Universities Act 1997 and the Institutes of Technology Acts respectively, are responsible for the day to day management of their own affairs, including matters relating to the recruitment of staff. Therefore the advertising of specific posts, and the nature of those posts, are matters for the...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools are 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 September. The school referred to by the Deputy had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The data requested by the Deputy are not available.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has recently disseminated €7m in grants to 450 post primary schools for the purchase of computers for use in Design and Communication Graphics (DCG). My Department has also made arrangements for the purchase and provision of CAD Software for Schools. There is an appeals process in place for schools who are unhappy with their allocation under the scheme. Appeals must be...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 559 to 561, inclusive, together. I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides an educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases receive assessment services through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: In April 2014 the school referred to by the Deputy was sanctioned a devolved grant under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme to provide two mainstream classrooms and three resource rooms. The school authority have recently submitted a request for additional funding and this request is currently being considered and the school authorities will be notified of the outcome as quickly...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: For student grants purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances either as students dependent on parents or a legal guardian, or as independent mature students. A student may be assessed as an independent mature student if he or she has attained the age of 23 on the 1st of January of the year of first entry to an approved course or of re-entry following a break in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 564 and 565 together. Annually the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform provides details of Programmes part-financed by the National Lottery and disbursed by relevant Government Departments and Offices. The Revised Estimates Volume provides these details at Vote subhead level and identifies the aggregate...