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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: I wish to advise the Deputy that this Government is investing heavily in supporting our children with special educational needs, with €1.8bn being spent annually, about €1 in every 5 of the education budget. All mainstream schools are provided with special education teachers based on the profiled needs of their school. There are currently almost 14,000 special education teachers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Status (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy is aware, and as I previously advised on this matter, the school in question is in the DEIS programme. The list of schools included in the DEIS programme is available at the following link:

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 199 and 200 together. The Department has every confidence that, through the implementation of the Framework for Junior Cycle the place of Geography will be retained and given a new impetus across the junior cycle curriculum. As part of the rollout of the new Framework for Junior Cycle, Geography was one of five new subject specifications that were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department will be issuing written confirmation to the school in question shortly confirming the level of approved accommodation. As soon as the approval letter is received the school authority may progress the project.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Courses Availability (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: Universities in Ireland are autonomous institutions under the Universities Act 1997. As such, the management of their academic affairs, including the selection and delivery of courses, are matters for individual institutions. Neither I nor the Department has any role in relation to such matters. In Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: I wish to advise the Deputy that the major building project to which he refers is at an advanced stage of architectural planning, Stage 2b (Detailed Design). All statutory approvals have been secured. The Stage 2(b) report was submitted to my Department in late December 2017 and following an initial review was deemed incomplete. Revisions and Addendums have been submitted by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. With this information, my Department carries out nationwide demographic exercises...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Costs (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: Leaving Certificate examination candidate Rebecca Carter appealed the result of her Business examination which she sat in June 2018. She claimed that a calculation error in the marking of her paper, which she viewed under the State Examinations Commission’s (SEC) script viewing process on 31 August 2018, resulted in her receiving less marks than she should have received. She was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: My officials will contact Scoliosis Ireland to discuss this request and to determine the appropriate action to be taken.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: The NCCA initiated a debate on the nature of junior cycle in 2010, with an initial discussion paper entitled Innovation and Identity: Ideas for a New Junior Cycle. The mandatory nature of subjects was considered in this debate.  Following consultation and consideration, the decision was made that English, Irish and Mathematics would be ‘core’ subjects which all students...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department is active in the area of promotion of health and wellbeing in schools.  The issue of promoting healthy eating is addressed in schools through subjects such as Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE), and Home Economics as well as in Physical Education.  The aim is to equip students with such skills and knowledge to enable them to make appropriate choices for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: The patronage divesting process arises from the recommendations of the 2012 report of the Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector, following which the Department undertook surveys of parental preferences in 43 areas of stable population in 2012 and 2013 to establish the level of parental demand for a wider choice in the patronage of primary schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: The purpose of the Special Education Home Tuition Grant Scheme is to provide a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend school. The scheme also provides a compensatory educational service for children with special educational needs seeking an educational placement and provision is made for early educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (5 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department does not have any remit for the provision of accommodation for playschools and therefore has no plans for the inclusion of playschools in the planing of new primary schools.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeilge (28 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Mar chuid den straitéis 20 bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030, geallann mo Roinn an méid seo a leanas a dhéanamh: 1. “Cruthófar deiseanna do leathnú ar an oideachas trí mheán na Gaeilge lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht i gcomhthéacs na 42 scoil nua a bhunófar, agus bunú Gaelscoileanna, Gaelcholáistí agus Aonaid Lán­Ghaeilge mar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeilge (28 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Tá an Roinn Oideachais agus Scileanna (ROS), trí thionscnaimh éagsúla, ag cur an Ghaeilge chun cinn sa chóras oideachais agus ag tacú le oideachas trí mheán na Gaeilge. Tá an ROS ag cur le roinnt gníomhartha i Straitéis 20 Bliain an Rialtais don Ghaeilge a léiríonn tiomantas na Roinne don Ghaeilge. Tugadh isteach curaclaim nua...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaeltacht Policy (28 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Since the establishment of An tAonad um Oideachas Gaeltachta within the Department of Education and Skills, significant progress has been made in relation to the implementation of the Policy on Gaeltacht Education 2017-2022, including the development and implementation of the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme in primary and post-primary schools in the Gaeltacht. Prior to the launch of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (28 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department and Revenue accorded the highest priority towards a correction of the tax issues for substitute teachers referred to by the Deputy. I am pleased to advise the Deputy that refunds are being issued to the substitute staff that were impacted by the issue in the first three payrolls of 2019. Refunds have now issued to 69 post primary payees, 533 primary payees and 177 non teaching...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (28 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that my Department approved a devolved grant to the school in question for additional accommodation. The accommodation approved includes a Mainstream Classroom, 2 x Special Education Teaching Rooms, Staff room and Office. This project is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. The Deputy will be aware that under the National Development Plan...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Reform (28 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: One of the key aims of Junior Cycle Reform was to move from a large number of subjects with heavy curricula examined in a traditional memory based way. After a very detailed consultation process the NCCA recommended a new approach: - limited compulsory subjects around basic literacy and numeracy - 24 statements of learning It is important to say that the 24 statements of learning include...