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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for fulfilling the functions of the NCSE Council within a designated area in relation to the identification of and delivery and co-ordination of education services to children with disabilities. The NCSE employ 9 Senior SENOs and 73 SENOs currently to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. The work of the Teaching Council is grounded in the values of professionally led regulation, shared professional responsibility and collective professional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: A total of 3,756 student accommodation bed spaces are known to have been delivered nationally between January 2018 and end January 2019. Of these bed spaces - - 2,876 are located in Dublin - 371 are located in Cork - 510 are located in Galway - 8 are located in Limerick The bed spaces that have been completed over this period are a mixture of private provision and public provision through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: A detailed breakdown of student living arrangements is not available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department provides funding for home tuition support to children under two main categories. Firstly, where a child is temporarily without a school place, is without an offer of a school place and is actively seeking a school placement in a recognised school; my Department may approve a grant to engage a suitable qualified tutor to provide up to 9 hours home tuition per week for that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The provisions of the Career Break and other leave schemes are set out in the “Terms & Conditions of Employment for Registered Teachers in Recognised Primary and Post Primary Schools” which is published on my Department’s website. A Career Break is a period of special leave without pay which may be granted by employers .i.e. the Board of Management in the case of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Computational thinking and coding, and their place in the primary curriculum has been a key topic for education debate in recent times and, in particular, following the then Minister’s request in July 2016 to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (the NCCA) to consider approaches to integrating coding into the primary curriculum and to embedding computational thinking in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I wish to advise the Deputy that the purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is solely for unforeseen emergencies or to provide funding to facilitate inclusion and access for special needs pupils. An emergency is deemed to be a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or the environment which is sudden, unforeseen and requires immediate action and, in the case...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department does not hold any information in relation to the enrolment policies of individual schools. Under the provisions of the Education Act, 1998 the Board of Management is responsible for the day to day running of a school and the Board must publish the admissions policy of the school. In relation to enrolment generally, it is my Department's responsibility to ensure that schools in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: To assist, schools, Deputies and the general public, my Department publishes on its website monthly updates on all major projects (including schools in the mid-west region) which are included on the Department’s Capital Programme 2016 -2021 including the type and extent of each project. Similar details are also published in respect of all approved additional accommodation projects and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Eligibility (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The school to which the Deputy refers recently made an application for roof works under my Department's Emergency works Scheme. Additional information has been requested from the school in respect of this application. When this information is submitted, the application will be assessed further and a decision will issue directly to the School Authorities in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The selection and enrolment of pupils is the responsibility of the management authorities in each individual school. As schools may not have a place for every applicant, a selection process may be necessary. This selection process and the enrolment policy on which it is based must be non-discriminatory and must be applied fairly in respect of all applicants. Under section 15 (2) (d) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 175 to 177, inclusive, together. The enrolment of a child to a school is a matter, in the first instance, for the parents of the child and the Board of Management of a school. My Department has no role in relation to processing applications for enrolment to schools and it does not maintain details of waiting lists in schools. My Department's policy is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Healthy Living Strategies (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: At primary level, circular 11/95 “Time in School” paragraph 3 states that a typical school day for Junior classes is 4 hours and 40 minutes and Senior classes 5 hours and 40 minutes with appropriate recreation i.e. 30 minutes. Under the Rules for National Schools, forenoon and afternoon breaks of five minutes each are allowed. Where a recreation interval or break of a longer...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The Department is aware that the play school referred to, by the Deputy, is operating in the main primary school's existing accommodation. This appears to be an initiative of the main primary school and the Department is not party to this arrangement. The Department is constructing a new permanent replacement school for the primary school in question and the project is currently on site. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (26 Feb 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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department has agreed to pay €4.3m for the construction cost of the school to be delivered as part of the new National Children's Hospital together with a sum of €714,000 plus VAT in respect of equipment. 70% of the construction cost amounting to €3.1m was transferred to the Department of Health in 2018. This is separate to my Departments commitment to pay...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The major building project for this school is at an advanced stage of architectural planning, Stage 2b – Detailed Design, which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire Cert and Disability Access Cert and the preparation of tender documents. All statutory approvals have been obtained. A legal challenge to the pre-qualification process for the main contract from one...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Feb 2019)

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

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Data (26 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take questions Nos. 186 and 188 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that officials from my Department attend conferences or seminars from time to time, where attendance at such events is required for upskilling or training purposes, or is required to keep appraised of best or emerging practices in specialist subject areas. The information requested by the Deputy is provided...