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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (20 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Assessment of means under my Department 's student grant scheme is based on gross income from all sources of the applicant and his/her parent(s)/legal guardian. Where applicable, certain social welfare and health service executive payments are considered exempt. It is necessary, therefore, that information regarding all income is accounted for when completing the grant application form. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (20 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Assessment of means under my Department 's student grant scheme is based on gross income from all sources of the applicant and his/her parent(s)/legal guardian, where applicable, with certain social welfare and health service executive payments being exempt. It is necessary, therefore, that information regarding all income is accounted for when completing the grant application form. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (20 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Due to worsening economic circumstances, the Government reduced the salaries and allowances payable of all new entrants to public service recruitment grades (including teachers) by 10% with effect from 1 January 2011 and required that such new entrants would start on the first point of the applicable salary scale. Subsequently, arising from the public service-wide review of allowances and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major building project for the schools referred to by the Deputy, is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning. The project has been authorised to proceed to Stage 2B of Architectural Planning, which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire Cert and Disability Access Cert and the preparation of Tender Documents. It is not possible to progress all projects...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (20 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Government recently 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, bringing the total number of SNAs available for allocation in 2015 to 11,330 posts. This is the highest level of SNA allocation that we have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department provides capitation funding to all recognised primary schools. The amount of grant paid to an individual primary school for capitation and ancillary services is determined by the school's enrolment, subject to a minimum grant for both capitation and ancillary services in respect of schools with enrolments up to 60, and a maximum ancillary services grant in the case of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am pleased to confirm that an all-in devolved grant was recently approved for the school to which the Deputy refers. This funding will allow the school to build two additional classrooms and the school has been advised of this decision. These additional classrooms will greatly enhance the school's accommodation and will meet the school's long-term accommodation needs.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to clarify for the Deputy that the school in question is recognised as a two-stream school by my Department. I also wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in contact with the school Patron for the primary schools in the area in question regarding pupil enrolments. My Department understands that the Patron is consulting directly with the schools involved, including the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Department has been working in conjunction with Cork County Council to secure a site to provide permanent accommodation for the school to which the Deputy refers. A preferred option has been identified and is being progressed. However, due to the sensitivities associated with land acquisitions generally it is not possible to provide further information at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the residency requirement of Section 14(4) of the Student Support Act 2011, a student must have been resident in Ireland for at least 3 of the 5 years immediately prior to commencing an approved course in an approved institution in order to qualify for a grant. However, a student may qualify for a grant, having met the residency requirement during the course of their studies. From...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is aware of the closure of the school to which the Deputy refers. While my Department has no plans at the moment to acquire the school in question, it is currently engaged in a nationwide demographic exercise to determine where additional post-primary school accommodation may be needed from 2016 onwards. The area where the school is located is included in this review. When...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The management authority of the school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme for the provision of new temporary accommodation and to have works carried to facilitate the enrolment of a special needs pupil. As the provision of additional accommodation is outside the terms of the Emergency Works Scheme it cannot be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: To satisfy the terms and conditions of the student grant scheme in relation to progression, a student must be moving from year to year within a course, having successfully completed the previous year or be transferring from one course to another, where the award for the subsequent course is of a higher level than the previous course. The objective of this policy is to help as many students...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The major school building project for the school to which the Deputy refers is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. The schools 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. When all of the relevant statutory approvals have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Building projects for sixteen Primary Schools have a Band 1.1 Rating and are currently at Stage 2b (Detailed Design) which includes applications for Planning Permission, Fire Safety Certification, Disability Access Certification and the preparation of tender documents. A table noting the details of these schools is attached. Ten of these schools are included in my Department's five year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Participation (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy on progression rates to third level from post-primary by geographic area is not available from my Department. My Department calculates progression rates at overall national level only for the purposes of compiling projections of third level demand.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 214 and 215 together. The current status of all projects, including those in Cork, may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie and this will be updated regularly throughout the year. The Deputy will be aware that the 5 year School Plan announced in March 2012, together with the schools announced in June 2013 under the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I understand from my officials that a section 29 appeal against Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board (ETB) on behalf of this case has now concluded. It is now open to the parents of the child in question to take a section 29 appeal to the Secretary General of my Department. My Department has no authority to compel a school to admit a pupil, except in the case of an appeal under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (15 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I understand from my officials that a section 29 appeal against Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board (ETB) on behalf of this case has now concluded. It is now open to the parents of the child in question to take a section 29 appeal to the Secretary General of my Department. My Department has no authority to compel a school to admit a pupil, except in the case of an appeal under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Education Committees Accounts (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The accounts of VECs, including Co Cork VEC, are audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and I understand that the 2011 accounts of Co Cork VEC will be completed in the near future. Once finalised, officials of my Department will arrange for them to be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas at the earliest opportunity.