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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Officials from my Department have been working very closely with officials from Cork County Council to secure a site for the school referred to by the Deputy. I can confirm that a suitable site has been identified and the conveyancing process in relation to its acquisition is underway. In tandem with completion of the conveyancing process, the project is being progressed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Tyndall job evaluation exercise has been completed and the consultant's report was referred to the UCC Tyndall Job Evaluation Oversight Committee on the 22nd December for their consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Institutes of Technology are autonomous institutions within the meaning of the Institutes of Technology Act 2006. The management of their academic affairs, including issues surrounding the collection of examination fees and relevant action where there are outstanding debts, are matters for the Governing Authority of each institution. Neither I nor my Department have any involvement in such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Welfare Board Remit (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Education Welfare Act 2000 requires all schools to have in place a Code of Behaviour. The Act requires that a school Code of Behaviour shall, inter alia, specify the standards of behaviour that shall be observed by each student attending the school, the measures that may be taken when a student fails or refuses to observe those standards, the procedures to be followed before a student may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: In the context of the necessary but difficult expenditure reduction measures announced in Budget 2012, new students entering postgraduate courses from the 2012/13 academic year onwards are not entitled to maintenance payments under the Student Grant Scheme. However, those who do meet the qualifying conditions for the special rate of grant under the Student Grant Scheme are eligible to have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that it is envisaged that the review of the configuration and development of post-primary provision for Limerick City and part of its environs which is currently being finalised will be made available in the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that children with special educational needs are eligible for school transport if they are attending the nearest recognised: mainstream school, special class, special school or a unit, that is or can be resourced, to meet their special educational needs under Department of Education and Skills' criteria. I understand that the child in question is availing of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Department has developed an individualised electronic database of primary school pupils (POD – the Primary Online Database). The primary purpose of POD will be to monitor the educational progress of primary pupils (in DES aided schools), throughout the primary system and onwards to post primary level and to help them develop their full educational potential. Once up and running...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is iad na príomhghráid sa Roinn atá gafa le seirbhísí a sheachadadh ar phobal na Gaeilge ná na gráid a bhaineann le cigireacht na scoileanna agus le soláthar na seirbhísí síceolaíochta oideachais a chuireann An tSeirbhís Náisiúnta Síceolaíochta Oideachais ar fáil do scoileanna i gceantair Ghaeltachta...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The following tabular statement contains details of expenditure on photography at the Department in the years requested by the Deputy. In addition to this a sum of approximately €7,400 was paid in July 2014 by my Department for the restoration, framing and installation of photographs in order to establish a photo gallery of Ministers and Secretaries General who have served in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Relations Contracts Data (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I refer to the response to questions 501 and 512 in December 2014. The information supplied at that time has not changed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) published its Report on a Proposed New Model for Allocating Teachers for Students with Special Educational Needs on 18th June 2014. The report recommends that a new allocation model should be developed, based on a school's educational profile, while providing a baseline allocation to every mainstream school to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The table that follows this reply outlines the information requested by the Deputy in respect of major building projects currently on site which have been awarded to the contractor in question by my Department or by bodies acting on behalf of my Department. Funding is also provided on a devolved basis to school management authorities under my Department's additional accommodation scheme for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) published its report on a proposed new model for allocating teachers for students with special educational needs on 18 June 2014. The report recommends that a new allocation model should be developed, based on a school's educational profile, while providing a baseline allocation to every mainstream school to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The statistics section of my Department's website contains extensive data relating to schools at primary and post-primary level, including teaching posts. The most recent published information relates to the 2013-14 school year. Data in relation to the 2014-15 school year will be published later in the current school year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Teacher allocations to all second level schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. The criteria for the allocation of posts are communicated to school managements annually and are available on the Department's website. In accordance with these rules, each school management authority is required to organise its...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 812 to 823, inclusive, together. My Department operates the largest payroll in the State, with approximately 98,000 school employees and pensioners paid every fortnight. These payrolls have become increasingly complex over the past five years, due to the introduction of three salary scales and two sets of allowances, by comparison to a single salary scale...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Most civil servants were historically placed on a pay scale with annual increments up to a maximum level and after that, 2 Long Service Increments (LSI's) after 3 and 6 years respectively. The date on which annual increments fell due for civil servants were spread out over the course of the calendar year and were determined by the date of appointment and normally paid on the anniversary of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 825, 826 and 838 to 841, inclusive, together. The details of the Haddington Road Agreement for teachers are extremely complex and are outlined in my Department Circulars 5/2014 for post primary teachers and 32/2013 for primary teachers. My Department operates the largest payroll in the State, with approximately 98,000 school employees and pensioners paid...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Data (14 Jan 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 827 to 831, inclusive, together. Staffing levels in front line operational areas such as Teachers' Payroll sections were maintained in recent years even though there was a planned reduction of Department's overall staffing levels required by the Employment Control Framework (ECF) agreed under the Croke Park and Haddington Road Agreements. The staffing...