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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major building project for the School referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of Architectural Planning. Following the Pre Stage 1 meeting held in November 2014, the project was authorised to progress to Stage 2A, which is the developed sketch design stage. Upon successful completion of Stage 2A and subject to no issues arising, this project will then be authorised to proceed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Information requested by the Deputy is not readily available. My Department will revert directly to the Deputy in these matters.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 170, 181 and 182 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that details of all applications for major capital funding may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie and this is updated regularly. The Deputy will be aware that over €2.2 billion in funding is being invested by my Department under its Five-Year School Capital Investment Plan...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171, 172, 180 and 183 together. The Deputy will be aware that this Government is committed to ensuring that all children with Special Educational Needs, including pupils in Co. Kildare, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. Many pupils with special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My focus in Budget 2015 was on obtaining the additional funding that was necessary to provide for demographic growth. 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. This funding will be used to provide 1,700 additional teachers and SNAs for our schools, as well as to fund...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently examining the extent and location of additional post-primary places that will be needed on a nationwide basis from 2017 onwards. This will include an examination of the north Kildare area. A submission received from a Patron body in relation to all-Irish provision in north Kildare will be taken into consideration as part of this examination. In the meantime, my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is very aware of the importance of small schools to rural communities, and particularly the most dispersed and remote communities. To sustain such communities, I recently announced two new policy measures. The first measure provides for improved changes to the staffing schedule for small schools that are more than 8 km distant from the next nearest school of the same type of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 176 and 177 together. There is no requirement on schools to report bullying incidents to my Department. The Deputy will be aware that my Department published new anti-bullying procedures for all primary and post primary schools at the beginning of the 2013/14 school year. These procedures are designed to give direction and guidance to school authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment is the body charged with advising the Minister on curriculum and assessment matters related to early childhood, primary and post-primary education. The NCCA, as a statutory body, keeps the curriculum under review with a view to contributing to education standards generally, as well as to specific aspects of social, cultural and economic...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Statistics Section of my Department's website contains extensive data relating to schools at primary and post-primary level. The most recent published information relates to the 2013/2014 school year. Data in relation to the 2014/15 school year will be published later in the current school year. The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has not incurred any charges over the past four years for satellite imagery. Any such images used by my Department are obtained from providers who do not levy charges for the service.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that differing teacher allocation ratios are applied under the General Allocation Model (GAM) in relation to boys, girls and mixed schools in order to account for differentials of prevalence of learning difficulty between boys and girls. The objective of this differentiation is to ensure that resources provided to schools to support children who have additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Training allowances are aligned to participants' social welfare entitlement and so take account of means and other factors. An additional training allowance used to be paid for long term unemployed people. This was introduced during a period of high employment levels as an incentive for the long term unemployed to participate in FÁS (now Education and Training Board) training...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: A new 1,000 pupil post-primary school is scheduled to open in 2016 in the area referred to by the Deputy. Patronage of this school was awarded to Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education & Training Board and it will be a multi-denominational, co-educational non-designated community college. The Design Team on the project for the school, has recently completed stage 2(a) and has been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from primary and post primary schools for special educational needs supports, including the establishment of special classes in various geographical areas as required. The NCSE operates within my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers submitted a major application for a new school building in November 2013. The current status of all applications, including for the school in question, may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie. To facilitate the provision of a new school building for the Gaelscoil in question a greenfield site will be required....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take questions 926 and 978 together. The project referred to by the Deputies is nearing completion of the Design Team appointment stage. The Tender competition for the Design Team appointment has concluded and the Board of Management have finalised the assessment of the tenders received. Letters of Intent and feedback letters have recently issued to all Tenderers and subject...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Projects (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The European Studies Programme has been funded on a 50:50 basis by the Department of Education, Northern Ireland and by my Department. Some €3.3 million have been contributed by the Irish Exchequer to the programme since 1999. In recent years, my Department's contributions to this programme have averaged €200,000 per annum from the budget made available to support North-South...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will be aware, since 2006, under the Teaching Council Act 2001, the Teaching Council is the regulator and standards body for the teaching profession. Under Circular 31/2011 of my Department, persons who have applied for registration as teachers with the Teaching Council are paid at the unqualified rate of pay pending the decision of the Council. I note also the reference to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (9 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In February of this year I announced that a new primary school will be opened in September 2016 to meet a demographic need in the Drumcondra/Marino area of Dublin. As with all such new schools, my Department will run an open patronage determination process to establish who will operate the new school. This process will take place later this year. It will be open to all patrons and...