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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (17 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Over 1,600 applications were received under the 2014 Summer Works Scheme. In total, the spending of more than €70 million on the 2014 Summer Works Scheme has been approved to allow over 770 schools undertake improvement works. In that regard, I wish to advise the Deputy that provision has been made in the 2015 allocation for the carryover costs of the improvement works concerned. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Expenditure (17 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Spending of over €70m on the 2014 Summer Works Scheme has been approved of which €58.5m has been issued to date in 2014. The balance will be a commitment in 2015 in respect of Summer Works projects that are not as yet completed. While capital expenditure on the schools sector in 2013 amounted to €361.4m which was €5.6m shy of the allocation for the sector in that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Statistics (17 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Teaching Council, the professional standards body for teachers, have been asked for advice on the matter of teacher supply and demand. The Council is currently working to provide that advice with the overall goal of ensuring that there is timely information to inform the system generally and for planning in my Department. The Teaching Council has established a Technical Working Group to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will be aware, the school in question were granted approval in February 2014 for a mainstream classroom with en-suite facilities to replace a prefab unit. This additional accommodation will significantly enhance this 3 classroom school's facilities. My Department have since been made aware that the school, in question, are seeking additional funding to provide further works,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (17 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: SNA allocations are determined by the NCSE on an annual basis. Where the allocation of SNA resources to a school is reduced this may necessitate a reduction in the allocation of the hours of the most junior SNA(s). Where the hours of an SNA are reduced, a compensation payment is made to that SNA where they have the requisite service in line with the terms of DES circular 58/2006. Where a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (17 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The redeployment process takes place in the first half of each year and takes effect from the start of the following school year. The process operates and deals with any surplus for the following school year. The redeployment process for the 2015/16 school year will commence early in 2015. The numbers involved for redeployment will be finalised at that stage. Given that Budget 2015 did not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Water Charges Administration (17 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government is the lead Department relating to Irish Water. With respect to the Deputy's question, Irish Water has indicated to my Department that the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) in its role as economic regulator of Irish Water, will introduce a national connections policy to which Irish Water will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (17 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: When considering whether a student meets the conditions to be assessed independently of his or her parents, grant awarding authorities are obliged to satisfy themselves beyond doubt that an acceptable degree of proof of independent living in the relevant period has been submitted by the grant applicant. In exceptional circumstances, where it is not possible to produce such proofs of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 28 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2000 (as amended by section 34 of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Amendment Act 2005) prohibits the disclosure of information provided to the Redress Board and Review Committee other than in specified circumstances. It also prohibits any person from publishing any information concerning an application or an award made under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy is available from the Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board and from Skillnets. I have asked the Education and Training Board and Skillnets to contact the Deputy directly with the information requested.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Property Transfers (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy is aware, the religious congregation that owns existing school properties in Ennistymon has offered to transfer the properties concerned to the State as part of its offer made in response to the publication of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (the Ryan Report). The land in question, which the Government has agreed to accept, together with the lands...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Where significant grant aid is provided by the Department for the development of school premises on property not owned by the State, it is the policy of this Department that the investment is secured by way of a legal agreement. Details in relation to these leases are generally held on individual property files. Therefore it is not possible to specify the number of such leases or the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school to which the Deputy refers to is to be delivered as part of the Schools Bundle 4 Public Private Partnership project. This bundle comprises four post primary schools. My Department expects Financial Close on the project to be finalised shortly. The PPP Company is expected to commence construction very soon afterwards. The school is on schedule for delivery early in 2016 in that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 49 of the Education and Training Boards Act, 2013, confers a power of borrowing on an Education and Training Board (ETB), subject to the submission of a proposal to the Board, and if approved in principle by the Board, to the Minister for Education and Skills for consent. My Department has issued Circular 0066/2014 to ETB, concerning the procedures to be followed where an ETB wishes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The national student grant awarding body, SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland), opened its online application system for the 2014/2015 academic year on 8 May, 2014 with the closing date further extended to 06 November 2014 It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that their application for a student grant is submitted before the deadline. Late applications may be accepted...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Education Review (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Special Education Support Service (SESS) develops and delivers a wide range of professional development supports for teachers working with students with special educational needs in mainstream primary and post-primary schools, special schools and special classes. Support, which may be informational, advisory or facilitative, is provided in response to identified continuing professional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has not made any application to my Department seeking capital funding for the purpose of developing a play space at the school. Any application received will be considered in the context of the funding available and having regard to other competing demands on the Department's capital budget. In recent weeks I announced that the Minor...