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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy is aware, my Department recently decided in order to meet future capacity needs across the area, that the school to which the Deputy refers should be replaced and expanded with a new 1,000 pupil school building. A new site will be required for the school and the Department will be liaising with KWETB with a view to the process for identifying a suitable site. Due to commercial...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The delivery of an extension including PE Hall and 2 Classroom Special Education Needs Base and refurbishment of existing building for the school to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board (ETB). The next step for the project is for the ETB to appoint a Design Team who will bring the project through the design and construction...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 240 and 259 together I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has received an application, for capital funding, from the school in question. The application will be considered shortly and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority as soon as the assessment process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 241, 242 and 248 together. As the Deputies may be aware, the project to which they refer has been devolved for delivery to the local Education & Training Board (DDLETB). That remains the case. My Department acknowledges that the delivery of this project has taken longer than originally envisaged. Most recently, a number of issues, primarily of a legal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 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: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible for allocating a quantum of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. The NCSE allocates SNA support to schools in accordance with the criteria set out in Department Circular 0030/2014, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Preparations (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Student exchange programmes are part of the Erasmus + programme, which is one of the key instruments to promote learner mobility. As such, the overall response to the impact of Brexit on the programme is the responsibility of the EU. The European Commission last week published a draft Regulation to ensure that students who are actually on mobility in the UK if a No Deal Brexit happens will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I recognise the very important work done by school secretaries, and indeed by other support staff, in the running of our schools and I am grateful to them for the contribution they make to our education system. I have spoken to a number of school secretaries about their employment conditions. Schemes were initiated in 1978 and 1979 for the employment of Clerical Officers and Caretakers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy is aware the delivery of the Campus project has been devolved to Kildare and Wicklow Education & Training Board (KWETB). It is understood that the project will be going to tender very shortly with a view to getting on site early in the Summer and is still on target for occupation in September 2020. There is now a clear path to completion of the project and KWETB...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Advisers Data (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The Special Advisers functions are to advise and assist their respective Ministers in addressing their ministerial brief. The following tabular statements contain the information sought by the Deputy for the years requested. 2017 Mr. Richard Bruton, T.D. Minister for Education & Skills Name Grade Duties Salary 2017 Patrick Cluskey Special Adviser Education Media matters...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (12 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: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved additional accommodation under my Department‘s Additional Accommodation Scheme 2013 to provide 5 additional mainstream classrooms for the replacement of prefabs. The responsibility for the appointment of a Design Team for this project has been devolved to Dublin Dun Laoghaire Education & Training Board. The tender process...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible for allocating a quantum of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. The NCSE allocates SNA support to schools in accordance with the criteria set out in Department Circular 0030/2014, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 254 to 256, inclusive, together. Schools have a legal duty to provide an appropriate education to all students, including young people with special educational needs, and obviously they need to plan to ensure this happens. Planning is a normal part of a teacher’s work and planning tools, like the student support file, have been created as a resource to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: For the Deputy's information, Department officials serve on six of the eighteen boards of non commercial agencies under the aegis of my Department. Criteria for board appointments to bodies under the aegis of my Department is typically informed by the legislative provisions of enabling and relevant Acts of the Oireachtas which gives authority to the State Bodies. As the Deputy will be aware,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: In Budget 2019, school leadership is again supported with an additional release day for teaching principals in primary schools and a further four additional release days for teaching principals in schools with special classes. These additional release days - 18, 24, and 30 depending on the size of the school - will be effective from 1st September 2019. This builds on measures in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy is aware the building project for the school in question is included on my Department's capital programme. Officials in my Department have recently contacted officials in Fingal County Council for assistance under the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the identification and acquisition of a suitable site. The relevant Local Area Plan provides for the location of a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 and 264 together. As the Deputy may be aware, the current focus for my Department is to prioritise the 17 schools due to be established in 2019 so that accommodation solutions can be put in place as soon as possible. A planning application was lodged on 21 December 2018 for the location referred to by the Deputy. However, following further engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Catchment Areas (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy may be aware, the Government recently announced plans for the establishment of 42 new schools over the next four years (2019 to 2022), including a new 8-classroom primary school to be established in 2019 to serve the Swords(South) school planning area. This announcement follows nationwide demographic exercises carried out by my Department into the future need for primary and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department's capital allocation in 2019 is €941m of which €672m is being allocated for capital spending in primary and post-primary schools. The school sector allocation will be expended primarily on the delivery of large scale projects and on the Additional Accommodation Scheme. Since mid-2018 all schools approved additional accommodation under my Department Additional...