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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The information requested by the Deputy is in the following table. NUMBERS OF TEACHERS WITH AN ANNUAL GROSS PAY IN EXCESS OF €100,000 2011/12 SCHOOL YEAR PRIMARY POST PRIMARY VOLUNTARY  SECONDARY & COMMUNITY/COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS VEC 0 260 111 Notes The numbers provided above relate to the number of people paid in these ranges and not their whole time equivalents i.e....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of gross salary paid to teachers, Special Needs Assistants and Clerical Officers for the current school year 2012/2013 is not available. I set out below the details for the academic year 2011/2012. The information in respect of capital expenditure for the current school year 2012/2013 is not available. This information is available on a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The cost in the 2011/12 school year for the provision of substitution cover in the secondary and community/comprehensive schools sector for teachers engaged in work associated with state examinations was 1.367 million euros. The information in relation to the cost for the provision of substitution cover in the VEC sector would have to be obtained from the 33 individual VECs.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 339 and 340 together. The statistical breakdown requested by the Deputy will not be made available to my Department by the grant awarding authorities until the end of the academic year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy received funding as follows during the past four years: - €757,254 under my Department's Summer Works Schemes in 2007, 2009 and 2010 for window replacement projects and general upgrade to toilets; - €17,200 in 2009 for Woodwork and Metalwork Grants; - €32,176 in May 2010 under my Department's Energy Efficiency Scheme for wall...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy has a priority band rating of 1.2. The project is currently at an early stage of architectural planning. A Revised Stage 2(a) Submission is currently with my Department for review. Once this Review is complete, and subject to no further issues arising, the project will progress to Stage 2(b) which includes applications for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Teaching Council is now the body with statutory responsibility for establishing procedures and criteria for the probation of teachers. A number of changes have been made in recent years to make it easier for new teachers to fulfil employment requirements for probation purposes. The Council has recently published its policy proposals on induction and probation for consultation with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The International School of Martyrs (ISM) is a private educational institution located in Tripoli, Libya. The Irish Leaving Certificate examination is offered each year to candidates in the school. The role of the State Examinations Commission (SEC) is to provide examinations to candidates who have been entered for either the Junior or Leaving Certificate and in this regard I am informed by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission is currently working with the Department of Foreign Affairs to put in place arrangements that would allow the Leaving Certificate examinations to be held in Malta this year. Teachers working at ISM are directly recruited and engaged as employees of that school. Their terms and conditions are private contractual matters between themselves and the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The person referred to by the Deputy attained her full teaching qualification requirements on the 24th April, 2013. Arrangements are now being made to have any arrears of salary owed to her paid on the 13th June, 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I am informed by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) that, in preparation for the 2013/2014 Academic year, both the online application system and the application assessment process are being further developed to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency and respond to experiences from year 1. The online application system has opened on May 20th a number of weeks earlier than for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 349 and 362 together. The Deputy will be aware of this Government's ongoing commitment to ensuring that all children with special educational needs, including children with Down syndrome, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs. The policy of my Department is to secure the maximum possible level of inclusion of students with special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The schools to which the Deputy refers are among a list of schools that are planned to be delivered as part of Bundle 5 of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) schools building programme. This bundle is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016 on suitable sites. It is envisaged that construction of this Bundle of school projects will begin approximately eighteen months prior to this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm for the Deputy that City of Dublin VEC commissioned an external review of SUSI, to identify the causes of the difficulties and to set out a specific programme of action to address them, so as to ensure that similar difficulties and delays will not be experienced for 2013/14. The Review examined the business systems and processes deployed by SUSI and assessed their adequacy in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that the establishment of a network of autism-specific special classes in schools across the country to cater for children with autism has been a key educational priority in recent years. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community Issues (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Unemployment in the Traveller community is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. With regard to formal education qualifications among the Traveller community, this is addressed in the policy document on Traveller education - the Report and Recommendations for a Traveller Education Strategy. The focus of both current and future provision is on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: University Status Review (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: There are no specified procedures in relation to the way a complaint may be made to the Minister contending that the functions of a university are being performed in a manner which prima facie constitutes a breach of the laws, statutes or ordinances applicable to the university. The Universities Act 1997 does not prescribe how the Minister should exercise his function under Section 20 to form...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Courses Availability (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand that the course in question is run only on the LIT Tipperary Clonmel campus. The CAO have received 101 applications for this course in the forthcoming academic year 2013/14. I have sought information on the direct cost of educating students on this course in the LIT Tipperary Clonmel Campus from the HEA and the information will be forwarded to the Deputy when it is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Staff (21 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: This data is not available in my Department. I have asked the Higher Education Authority to request the information sought by the deputy from Limerick Institute of Technology. It will be forwarded as soon as it has been made available to me.