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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The overall enrolment in primary schools in the Castleisland feeder area in 2011 was 1,290 pupils and the projected overall enrolment for 2015 is 1,330 pupils. This represents a slight increase of 3%.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The overall enrolment in primary schools in the Abbeyfeale feeder area in 2011 was 1,043 pupils and the projected overall enrolment for 2015 is 1,054 pupils. This represents a slight increase of 1%.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The overall enrolment in primary schools in the Newcastlewest feeder area in 2011 was 1,484 pupils and the projected overall enrolment for 2015 is 1,703 pupils. This represents an increase of 15%.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of the above, I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have been informed by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) that the documentation initially supplied by the student in question in support of his grant application was incomplete and that a request for the further documentation issued on 20th February 2013. Documentation was received on 27th February 2013 and has been reviewed by SUSI and the student will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Visas (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) is responsible for determining visa and immigration policy, including in respect of non-EEA nationals who wish to study in Ireland. In considering visa and immigration applications, INIS makes reference to the Internationalisation Register, operated on my Department's behalf by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI). This is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Remuneration (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Remuneration for university staff is regulated by the Universities Act 1997. The Act requires that all forms of remuneration, including allowances, are approved by the Minister of Education and Skills with the consent of the Minister for Finance. Trinity College did not at any time have sanction to pay the Tutor's allowance and the University has been directed to permanently cease the payment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The management authorities of the school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application recently for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to carry out various improvement works at their school. As the scope of works for which funding is sought is outside the terms of the scheme they cannot be considered for funding. The management authority of the school has been informed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 to 109, inclusive, together. The information requested by the Deputy in relation to teachers in Secondary, Community and Comprehensive Schools is not available on a county basis. VEC teachers are employees of VECs and are paid on 33 separate VEC payrolls. Accordingly, the Department does not have the information which the Deputy is seeking for teachers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The overall enrolment in primary schools in the Killorglin feeder area in 2011 was 1,383 pupils and the projected overall enrolment for 2015 is 1,516 pupils. This represents an increase of 10%.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The overall enrolment in primary schools in the Kenmare feeder area in 2011 was 729 pupils and the projected overall enrolment for 2015 is 747 pupils. This represents an slight increase of 2%.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Services Speeds (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Education Centres are statutory bodies and are managed by voluntary Management Committees which are elected annually. Education Centres are the delivery mechanism for the delivery of CPD for teachers throughout the country. Centres also organise a varied local programme of activities for teachers, school management and parents in response to demand. The Education Centres are funded by my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (6 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Expert Group on Future Skills Needs, which is funded by my Department, plays a key role in advising on future skills needs and any emerging gaps. Its research provides a valuable input to the development of course curricula and has also informed the development of new competitive funding models of provision to address emerging skills needs. The Springboard programme targets funding of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes (5 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Springboard is not a general education measure. It is a specific initiative that strategically targets funding of free part-time higher education courses to enable unemployed people who have lost jobs in sectors where employment levels will not return, to upskill or reskill in areas where there are identified labour market skills shortages or employment opportunities. To be eligible for a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports, including the approval of resource teaching hours. The NCSE operates within my Department's established criteria for the allocation of such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that a dedicated capital assets test implementation group was established to bring forward detailed implementation proposals on new means testing arrangements for student grants, to include the value of assets. No decision has been taken on the treatment of farm or other business assets or on the setting of a limit on the value of assets that may be included in any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Rights Issues (5 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The review referred to by the Deputy has now been carried out. Arrears of salary were paid to the person referred to on the 28th February 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: 85% of all NCSE approved resource teaching hours in the 2012/13 school year were allocated to schools that had resource base posts. There are some slight changes to the location of these base posts for the 2013/14 school year to further improve the efficiency of these arrangements. The schools that were affected by these changes were those where the posts were not fully utilised for NCSE...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (5 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland that while documentation was received from the student referred to by the Deputy, it was necessary to issue a request for further documentation on the 28th February in order to determine eligibility in this case. As soon as the requested documentation is received, the student will be notified directly of the outcome.