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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), 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. Where a child has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with the Teaching Council Act 2001, the Teaching Council is the statutory body for the regulation of the teaching profession, including the recognition of teaching qualifications and the registration of teachers The decision of the Teaching Council to change its logo was an operational matter for the Council. The Council is self-financing and the cost of this change was not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In accordance with the Teaching Council Act 2001, the Teaching Council is the body with statutory responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession, including recognition of teaching qualifications and the registration of teachers. The Teaching Council is self-financing; it is not financed from Oireachtas or public funds and its income is derived mainly from teacher registration...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Budget 2012 provided for the phased withdrawal of approximately 428 posts allocated to some schools under disadvantage programmes prior to the introduction of DEIS in 2005. Due to conflicting reports of posts being lost in these schools, my Department produced a report on the impact of the withdrawal of these legacy posts from DEIS Band 1 and Band 2 Schools. Following the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is in consultation with the Department of Social Protection in the context of the review of the Student Grant Scheme for the 2015/16 academic year. As part of that process my Department is consulting on the reform of the One-Parent Family Payment, by the Department of Social Protection, to limit the impact for grant applicants who may be affected by this change. This process is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school referred to by the Deputy recently submitted an application for additional accommodation. The application was assessed and I am pleased to inform the Deputy that devolved funding to build an 80sqm mainstream classroom and a 16sqm learning support room has been approved. This decision was communicated to the school in question on 12th March last.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: A major building project for the school, referred to by the Deputy, is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. The school's Design Team are currently working on Stage 2b - Detailed Design, which involves obtaining planning permission, fire certificate and disability access certificate and the completion of tender documents. Final Grant of Planning was received in September 2014. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The management authorities of the school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to replace a slate roof at their school. As the scope of works for which funding is sought is outside the terms of the scheme it cannot be considered for funding. The management authority of the school has been informed of this decision. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's over-riding objective is to ensure that every child has access to a physical school place and that our school system is in a position to cope with increasing numbers. This will continue to be the main focus for investment by my Department in the coming years therefore it is not possible to provide funding for the provision of an astroturf pitch at the school referred to by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The building project referred to by the Deputy is included in the Five Year Construction Programme to proceed to Tender and Construction. The original design team appointed to the project had reached completion of Stage 1 of Architectural Planning. As part of that work and following an assessment of the current accommodation, it was agreed by the Department that extensive additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The current position in relation to DEIS (Delivering Equality Of Delivering Opportunity in Schools) is that I expect to receive a report commissioned from the Economic and Social Research Institute on "Learning from DEIS" in the near future. I understand that this report will incorporate information in relation to the various inputs, processes and educational outcomes contained in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 783 and 784 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that differing teacher allocation ratios are applied under the General Allocation Model (GAM) in relation to boys, girls and mixed schools in order to account for differentials of prevalence of learning difficulty between boys and girls. The objective of this differentiation is to ensure that resources...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has received an application from the school to which he refers for funding for additional accommodation. The application is currently being considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority as soon as this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The appeal of the student referred to by the deputy was heard by the independent Appeals Board on the 24th February 2015. The Appeals Board overturned the decision of the appeals officer. I understand that SUSI has implemented the Appeals Board's decision and that a letter issued to the student on 10 March 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The selection and enrolment of pupils in schools is the responsibility of the authorities of the individual school. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in an area. However, this may result in some pupils not obtaining a place in the school of their first choice. As schools may not have a place...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently completing the 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 relevant statutory approvals have been obtained. The Design Team are currently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Statistics (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: 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: Bullying in Schools (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department published new Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools at the beginning of the 2013/14 school year. These procedures are designed to give direction and guidance to school authorities and school personnel in preventing and tackling school-based bullying behaviour amongst its pupils. All Boards of Management are required to adopt and implement an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: When the moratorium on the filling of posts of responsibility was introduced in 2009, the Government exempted Principal and Deputy Principal posts in all primary and post-primary schools. These posts continue to be replaced in the normal manner. The impact of the moratorium was therefore limited to the Assistant Principal and Special Duties posts of responsibility. The alleviation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (24 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The management authorities of the school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to replace a slate roof at their school. As the scope of works for which funding is sought is outside the terms of the scheme it cannot be considered for funding. The management authority of the school has been informed of this decision. The...