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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Project Maths emphasises student understanding of mathematical concepts and the use of contexts and applications that enable students to relate Mathematics to their everyday experience. The curriculum has been phased in over a number of years. In tandem with the roll-out, a comprehensive programme of professional development has been provided for all teachers of mathematics by the Project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: July Provision is available to all special schools and mainstream primary schools with special classes catering for children with autism that choose to extend their education services through the month of July. My Department also provides July Provision for pupils with a severe/profound general learning disability. Where school based provision is not feasible, home based provision may be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The topics identified by the Deputy form part of the discussions that I will ask my officials to continue to have with the partners, particularly through the National Working Group on the Junior Cycle. At present I have received some suggestions, particularly from the management/patron bodies, which will inform the discussions going forward. I continue to await similar written submissions...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that the establishment of a network of autism-specific special classes in schools across the country to cater for children with autism has been a key educational priority in recent years. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports, including the allocation of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools. The NCSE operates within my Department's established criteria for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I have been informed by officials in my Department that an appeal from the student referred to by the Deputy was heard by the independent Student Grants Appeals Board on 29th April 2014 and that the original decision of the SUSI appeals officer was upheld. In order to be assessed as an independent mature student an applicant must provide sufficient evidence to show that he/she was living...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As part of the Government's budgetary considerations and the Comprehensive Expenditure Review carried out in 2011, a decision was made to abolish payments by this Department towards the cost of attendance at Gaeltacht courses by initial teacher education students with effect from September 2012. The decision to abolish the grants was not taken lightly, and it has to be viewed in the context...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 292 and 293 together. Schools have been subject to full water charges imposed by Local Authorities since 1 January 2010. During the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2009 a transition water charge was levied by the Local Authorities on schools. Under these transitional arrangements schools paid a flat fee of €3 per pupil in 2007; €3.50...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Rainwater Harvesting Systems Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that rainwater harvesting systems were first introduced for major school building projects in 2008. Since then all major school building projects, where site conditions and circumstances allow and where economically viable to do so, can incorporate a rainwater harvesting system into their accommodation brief. While fitting the systems in new schools during...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The school to which the Deputy refers is being established in response to the outcome of the parental survey under the patronage divesting process carried out in the Malahide/Portmanock area and the school is intended to serve this area. The survey showed sufficient parental demand to establish and sustain a 12 classroom-school. The school will also be intended to cater for some additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: July Provision is available to all special schools and mainstream primary schools with special classes catering for children with autism that choose to extend their education services through the month of July. My Department also provides July Provision for pupils with a severe/profound general learning disability. Where school based provision is not feasible, home based provision may be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Expenditure (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that commensurate with the level of funding available for the 2014 Summer Works Scheme, applications were assessed on a top down basis in accordance with the prioritisation criteria outlined in the Circular accompanying the scheme. In that regard, I have approved, in total, the spending of more than €70 million on the Summer Works Scheme to allow 772 schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I can inform the Deputy that all primary and post primary schools have access to psychological assessments either directly through the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS), or through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. Where a NEPS psychologist is not assigned to a school, authorities therein may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Lease Agreements (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: There is a lease in place between the school and the GAA club referred to by the Deputy. My Department understands that the GAA club is also leased from Cork City Council. My Department is not a party to either lease and cannot comment on the legal basis for either lease. My Department's records show that the initial agreement between the school and the GAA club was for annual rental of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The information in question has now issued to the Deputy. I regret the delay in this regard and for any inconvenience it may have caused.