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- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: As I said to the Deputy during Question Time yesterday, they said from the beginning that they would be able to do this part within their own resources. I would encourage the institutions to engage with their community to ensure they explain how this will happen.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: The figure for emergency capital is €12.9 million in 2014.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: That was expenditure. On Deputy Keating's general point about older schools, when the five year building programme was announced, and I recall the former Minister, Deputy Quinn, saying that he did not want any child to be looking out at a field instead of a classroom, the big pressure was demographics. It was to make sure that every child had a classroom to go to. That is why the vast...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: We hope to announce the next five year building programme around the middle of this year.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: It will be a completely new programme starting in the beginning of 2016. We are always looking for money so if there is any stimulus money we will look for more funding for capital for this year. We have announced our current capital programme for this year, which included those 70 schools, but we will always chase after any money that might become available. If we do get money, we will...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: I believe it is about three years. I have been told that if it is more than three years, we will buy it. We can get further clarification on that if the Deputy needs it.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: On the minor works scheme, the normal practice is for that to be announced later in the year. It is funded from money we find later in the year, so I would not be putting in the amount now. I would hope to find it later in the year. That is as much as I can say on that at this point. With regard to the summer works scheme, the time is approaching when, if we are going to announce a...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: -----me under pressure on that one.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: We are not ready for any announcement yet. I cannot tell the Deputy one way or the other whether there will be an announcement, but we are trying to find some money for that. Obviously, because we have to have time to organise the works, there is a fairly short timeframe.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: It is.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: It would be the applications submitted last year. The remaining categories are priorities seven to ten. They would be windows, curricular requirement projects, other structural improvements and external environment projects, which would include school yards.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: No, I do not believe we would get enough funding to do any more than those works. They would be the ones considered if we get funding.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: It is not that it would be taken from any other spending but if there was money available, and we would search very hard to find it, we would use it for that purpose.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: If there was an underspend in some area, for example-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: It would have to come from within our resources.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy Conaghan managed to get a good education here anyway.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: I thank all the Deputies for their comments. The Minister of State, Deputy English, and I are working closely on all these issues. We would both agree with the last point that we need to value further education because it does not receive the recognition it should. That is part of the work we are doing at the moment. Ballyfermot is a good example of a college of further education whose...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: -----and that the curriculum is delivered and that there are no schools missing out for one reason or another. I have made the point on further education and technological universities.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: It probably relates to the issue raised earlier concerning numbers. Deputy O'Brien was asking me about vacancies and I listed the number this year and the numbers being interviewed. We are gradually increasing the number of staff, and I believe the goal is 173. As the Deputy knows, there has been an increase in the Estimate for this year. This is because we are recruiting. We will have...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Jan O'Sullivan: It is now the responsibility of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.