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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Services (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The National Educational Psychological Service is organised on a regional basis. Liaison with the CAMHS is prioritised regionally and locally by NEPS in the interests of developing effective referral pathways for students with significant social, emotional and mental health needs.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: For student grants purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances either as students dependent on parents or a legal guardian, or as independent mature students. A student may be assessed as an independent mature student if he/she has attained the age of 23 on the 1st of January of the year of first entry to an approved course or of re-entry following a break in studies...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that funding for the provision of four mainstream classrooms has been approved by my Department to cater for increased pupil growth in the area to which he refers. This funding will facilitate extensions at St Laurence's and St Patrick's National Schools.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that in preparation for these surveys a Code of Conduct was agreed between my Department and all of the current and prospective patron bodies. The Code of Conduct provided that there would be no canvassing campaign conducted in any area by any of the patron bodies. It was agreed that all the necessary information and documentation would be distributed by my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Some officials at my Department attend conferences in Ireland and abroad in order to keep abreast of developments in their particular educational field. All of the details under the various headings as required by the Deputy are not readily available and I have requested officials at my Department to compile the information which I will forward to the Deputy when it is to hand. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 324 and 351 together. As the Deputies are aware, my Department has recently carried out a technical inspection of the school premises in question and the outcome concerned is currently being assessed. My Department will be in further contact shortly with the school authorities, referred to by the Deputies, in that regard.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Ireland (SUSI), the new centralised grant awarding authority, that the student referred to by the Deputy re-submitted a grant application on the 18th January 2013 as the original application was incomplete. On the 30th January the application was assessed and a documentation checklist was issued to the student. When the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that while the schools to which he refers were not included in the Five Year Construction Plan, school projects that are currently within the Department's architectural planning process, including projects for the schools in question will continue to be progressed. The progression of school projects to construction, as set out in the Five Year Plan, to meet future...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department has sought the assistance of, and is working closely with, the relevant Local Authority in relation to identifying and acquiring a suitable site for two of the schools to which the Deputy has referred. Due to commercial sensitivities attaching to site acquisitions generally, it is not possible to comment further on the site acquisition aspect of these projects at this time. With...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Numbers (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: In the 2012/2013 academic year there were 113 Department Aided Mainstream National Schools, 3 Special School and 19 Post Primary Schools in County Meath.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Please see the attached spreadsheet for the number of teachers in County Meath at primary Level. This information is not available at post primary level. NUMBER OF SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS IN COUNTY MEATH FOR 2011/12 SCHOOL YEAR County Schools Teaching Teachers Non-Teaching Teachers Other Teachers (Full-time and FTE part-time) Total Teachers Meath 112 907 52 295 1,254

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy in relation to school patronage in County Meath is as follows:

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that between 2010 and 2012 inclusive, one new school opened in County Meath under a patron other than the Catholic Church in each of those years. No new schools meeting the criteria defined by the Deputy opened in County Meath in 2008 or 2009.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: A total of seven new schools were constructed over the three year period 2010 to 2012 in County Meath. The following is the list of new schools constructed during the period in question:

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The total capital expenditure on schools in County Meath over the last three years is as follows:

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The budget measure introduced for the current school year that requires schools to manage the provision of guidance from within their standard staffing allocation, the alternative to which was to make an adjustment to the standard staffing schedule, must be seen in the context of our very difficult budgetary constraints. It is also worth pointing out that, as part of last years budgetary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy on the number of schools in prefabricated buildings in each year for the past five years is not readily available in the format requested. The following table outlines all Primary and Post Primary schools currently renting prefabricated buildings, together with the commencement date of rental. Schools, whose major projects are being progressed under my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Feb 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware in June 2011, I announced that up to 40 new schools are to be established up to 2017 to cater for increasing demographics across a number of locations. These consisted of twenty new primary schools and twenty new post-primary schools. This announcement did not include a proposal to establish any new second level school in the area in County Westmeath referred to...