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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Government committed, as part of the budget announcements made last year, to provide for 365 new Special Needs Assistant (SNA) posts to support children with special educational needs in schools in 2015. This increase is additional to the increase of 390 posts which this Government announced in December 2013, which had raised the previous cap from 10,575...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The average annual salary cost for a teacher can vary between primary and post-primary level. However, the combined average annual cost for both sectors, inclusive of employer's PRSI, is circa. €47,500. The average annual increase in costs used for estimating purposes is currently €1,970, inclusive of employer's PRSI. The full year cost for an additional 1,400 teachers is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 161 and 163 to 165, inclusive, together. School based July Provision is available to all special schools and mainstream primary schools with special classes catering for children with autism and/or those with severe/profound learning disability that choose to extend their education services through the month of July. Where school based provision is not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: New students entering postgraduate courses from the 2012/13 academic year onwards are not entitled to maintenance payments under the Student Grant Scheme. Those who meet the qualifying conditions for the special rate of grant under the Student Grant Scheme are eligible to have their post-graduate tuition fees paid up to the maximum fee limit of €6,270. The qualifying criteria for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware a project for the school in question is included in my Departments Five Year Construction Plan. My Department is currently developing an accommodation brief for the project and will be in contact with the school shortly in relation to the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question was approved funding, on a devolved basis, for the provision of a new Resource room in January 2015 last. However, a further application was received on the 11th March last from the school, in question, for an additional mainstream classroom. This application is currently being considered and a decision will be conveyed to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has put in place an appeals process, by which schools or parents may appeal decisions made by NCSE Special Education Needs Organisers in respect of applications made for Special Needs Assistant or Resource Teaching support. Details of the manner in which the NCSE Appeals Process is conducted, along with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Exchequer funds tuition fees costs in respect of eligible students who are pursuing full-time undergraduate courses of study under my Department's Free Fees Initiative. The main conditions of the scheme are that students must be first-time undergraduates, hold inter alia EU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss state for at least...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Strategy for Science, Technology & Innovation (2006 to 2013) was a broad based strategy which covered funding for research and innovation across all disciplines and across the full continuum of research from basic to applied, as well as commercialisation of research. The Government remains committed to the importance of research given the key role that it plays in underpinning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: A report on Learning from the Evaluation of DEIS commissioned in 2014 is currently nearing completion and I expect to receive the report shortly. This report incorporates information in relation to the various inputs, processes and educational outcomes contained in the findings from the DEIS research and evaluations conducted to date by the Educational Research Centre and my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The staffing arrangements for primary schools for the 2015/16 school year are set out in Department Circular 0005/2015 which is available on my Department's website at www.education.gov.ie. An appeals process is also available to schools. Details of the appeals criteria are set out in the published staffing arrangements. The school referred to by the Deputy submitted an appeal for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The two schools to which the Deputy refers were both approved funding under the Prefab Replacement Scheme in 2012. The schools are situated on a split campus in Carrigaline town. The school authorities submitted an alternative proposal to provide all of the proposed replacement accommodation on the senior school's site and rationalise provision from 3 sites to 1 site. My Department advised...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: A report on Learning from the Evaluation of DEIS commissioned in 2014 is currently nearing completion and I expect to receive the report shortly. This report incorporates information in relation to the various inputs, processes and educational outcomes contained in the findings from the DEIS research and evaluations conducted to date by the Educational Research Centre and my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the accommodation brief for the school building project to which he refers has recently been finalised. The project concerned will involve both the provision of additional accommodation and also significant restoration works. An invitation to tender to appoint a Project Manager to oversee the project has already issued to the Departments Framework of Project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The staffing arrangements for primary schools for the 2015/16 school year are set out in Department Circular 0005/2015 which is available on my Department's website at www.education.gov.ie. An appeals process is also available to schools. Details of the appeals criteria are set out in the published staffing arrangements. The board held its first meeting for 2015 last week and those schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's Planning and Building Unit has no record of receiving an application for funding for replacement windows from the school referred to by the Deputy. Should an application be received, it will be assessed and the school authorities will be notified of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is envisaged that the new Leaving Certificate Politics and Society specification will be introduced in schools on a phased basis from September 2016. The number of schools which will comprise the first phase and the criteria against which their application to join the first phase will be considered, are yet to be determined. It is noteworthy that what is proposed for Leaving Certificate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is not possible to respond to the Deputy question because the information provided is insufficient to formulate a reply. If additional information is provided by the Deputy, an appropriate response will be provided.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies Data (25 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 180 and 181 together. Comprehensive information in relation to the composition of the boards of non-commercial State bodies under the aegis of the Department of Education and Skills, which includes the information requested by the Deputy (with the exception of the information in relation to the average age of chairpersons, which is not collated by my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Guarantee (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The European Union's Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) provides co-funding to projects in the Member States that are designed to implement the EU Youth Guarantee and other projects designed to get unemployed young people back to work, education or training. The YEI is being delivered in Ireland through the European Social Fund (ESF) Programme for Education, Inclusion and Learning 2014-2020...