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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Implications of Brexit for the Irish Educational System: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I thank all of the witnesses for attending and for their good and insightful presentations. Professor MacCraith mentioned all of the advances that have been made in terms of the McAleese scholarships, ERASMUS funding and the position relating to CAO points being rectified in order to be fair to students from the Six Counties. We need to protect the many advances that have been made in these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of assessments that have been carried out by the National Educational Psychological Service for each class level for primary school pupils, that is junior infants, senior infants and so on, or alternatively by year of age, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13587/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists in each National Educational Psychological Service office in tabular form; the total number of schools the office covers; the vacancies in each office; the administrative support in each office; the area covered by each office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13588/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of payments per annum by the National Educational Psychological Service to the scheme for the commissioning of psychological assessments, SCPA, panel over the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13589/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any of the 900 additional resource teachers recruited to implement the new resource allocation model will form part of the inclusion support service; the number of same that will form part of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13590/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process for schools that wish to access supports for children with special educational needs under the inclusion support service; the range of supports that will be available; if additional resource hours will be available under the service; the criteria to avail of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13591/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that will be available to schools under the new resource allocation model in cases in which a child receives a diagnosis after the allocation is received by a school or additional complex needs are identified by the school subsequent to their allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13592/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if details of the resource allocation for each school will be published; the date on which; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13593/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional resource hours that have been allocated to schools under the new resource allocation model; the number of schools that received additional hours under the new model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13595/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeals mechanism will be available for parents under the new resource allocation when they are of the view their child is not receiving sufficient supports; if he will outline this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce any mechanism of oversight in relation to the way in which resource hours are used in schools as part of the new model; if this was a recommendation of the NCSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13597/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional provision has been made for special education needs co-ordination under the new resource allocation model, as recommended by his Department's inspectorate in relation to the review of the pilot; if schools are expected to provide this from within their resource allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13596/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to increase the employer's contribution to higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13598/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the estimated costs of recruiting a retention officer for each higher education institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13599/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the records that must be provided in order for special needs assistants to avail of incremental credit for previous relevant work experience; the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused incremental credit for one past employer, despite significant past experience; the reason the person has not yet had a decision on an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (21 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the reasons a school (details supplied) was refused an application for funding under the summer works grant; if he will reconsider this decision; if his attention has been drawn to the issues in respect of overcrowding due to projected enrolment, as raised as an issue of concern by the inspectorate during a recent whole school...

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “recognises that: — the National Educational Psychology Service (NEPS) is drastically understaffed, with 619 primary and post-primary schools across the State without access to a NEPS psychologist for the purposes of carrying out an assessment; —...

Education (Disadvantage Committee) Bill 2017: First Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move:Bill entitled an Act to amend the Education Act 1998 to make provision whereby the Minister for Education and Skills shall establish an Educational Disadvantage Committee to advise him or her on policies and strategies to be adopted to identify and correct educational disadvantage. The purpose of this Bill is to re-instate the Educational Disadvantage Committee under the Education Act...

Education (Disadvantage Committee) Bill 2017: First Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to allocating additional staff to the audit committee of ETBs in order to ensure that the unit is sufficiently resourced to undertake the extensive workload in an efficient and timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12461/17]