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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware, FETAC, HETAC and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI) were formally dissolved on 6 November and their functions are now undertaken by the new amalgamated qualifications and quality assurance body, Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI). Significant work was undertaken by those bodies on the necessary core administrative preparations for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (28 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 106, 107, and 112 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Education Committees Staff (28 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Following protracted negotiations, my Department consented to an ad-hoc referral to the Labour Court of a claim from TUI for a pay increase for Directors of Education Centres. The Labour Court subsequently issued a non-binding recommendation in 2009 in respect of this claim. Due to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act, this Labour Court recommendation cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm that a review of the temporary accommodation at the above school took place in July 2012 as per standard practice when the rental contract was due to expire. My Department advised the school at that time that rental grant aid would continue to be approved until June 2013. Correspondence on the matter has been received recently from the school. My Department will be in direct...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (28 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: To satisfy the terms and conditions of the student grant scheme in relation to progression, a student must be moving from year to year within a course having successfully completed the previous year or be transferring from one course to another where the award for the subsequent course is of a higher level than the previous course. The objective of this policy is to help as many students as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (28 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: For the Deputy's information, Mr Justice Esmond Smyth serves as Chairperson of the Residential Institutions Redress Board. He retired as President of the Circuit Court in February 2012 but continues as Chairperson of the Board. Mr Justice Francis D Murphy, retired judge of the Supreme Court, serves as the Chairperson of the Residential Institutions Review Committee. In addition, Judge John...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (28 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: When the moratorium on the filling of posts of responsibility was introduced the Government exempted Principal and Deputy Principal posts in all primary and post-primary schools and these posts continue to be replaced in the normal manner. The impact of the moratorium is therefore limited to the Director of Adult Education, Assistant Principal and Special Duties posts of responsibility....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure (28 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The total capital expenditure on the primary sector in 2012 was just over €204 million.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: 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. This includes the allocation of resource teaching hours to schools as well as the establishment of special classes in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: While the original Schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 included 123 institutions, section 4 of the Act empowered the Minister to add certain additional institutions to the Schedule by Order. St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home was added to the Schedule on the basis that it operated as a children's home and came within the scope of section 4 of the Act.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm that a review of the temporary accommodation at the above school took place in July 2012 as per standard practice when the rental contract was due to expire. My Department advised the school at that time that rental grant aid would continue to be approved until June 2013. Correspondence in this regard has been received recently from the school. My Department will be in direct...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm for the Deputy that my Department has received an application for additional accommodation from the school to which he refers. The application is currently being assessed and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The school to which the Deputy refers has applied to my Department for capital funding for the provision of a sport hall.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Major Building Project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. In October 2012, the Department authorised the project to proceed to Stage 2b which includes Planning Permission, Fire Safety Certificate, Disability Access Certificate and the preparation of tender documents. Due to competing demands on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has not received any recent application for capital funding from the school referred to. My Department will consider applications by schools for funding for essential mainstream classroom accommodation where necessary to meet immediate enrolment needs. Copy of the application form concerned may be accessed on my Department's website...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The school, referred to by the Deputy, has applied to my Department for large scale capital funding.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland that in the case of the student referred to by the Deputy confirmation of course registration has been requested and is awaited from the student's institution in order to process the student's grant payment.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland that in the case of the student referred to by the Deputy, her student grant application was appealed to the appeals officer in SUSI and the original decision was overturned.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (27 Feb 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: School Staffing (27 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 119 to 140, inclusive, together. The information requested by the Deputy in relation to teachers in Primary, Secondary, Community and Comprehensive Schools is being compiled and will be forwarded directly to him. VEC teachers are employees of VECs and are paid on 33 separate VEC payrolls. Accordingly, the Department does not have the information which the...