Results 7,101-7,120 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: I can clarify the accounting of it, and the possibility of further spending on a summer works scheme is still under consideration.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: Not in the 2014 budget, which we are examining now.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: No definite decision has been made on a further announcement of a summer works scheme. This is all I can say.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: Like the Deputy, I would like to be able to spend further money on a summer works scheme. However, I cannot say there is money allocated for it.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: No.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: The amount of money we will spend on school capital projects and school buildings is the amount that was announced in the original five-year programme. We will not underspend. The amount for DIT is the amount allocated to it. If DIT is ahead in its spending and spends its money this year rather than next year, it does not follow that it will receive more. I reiterate the Government's very...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: We have specifically allocated extra money for resource teachers and 365 extra special needs assistants, SNAs, in the coming year. It is very much a focus of my Department's priorities and of my personal priorities.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: The context is that this year 27 new schools and 14 large-scale extensions were completed. These 41 large-scale projects involved 30 projects in the primary and 11 in the post-primary sector. A further 60 large-scale projects are under construction, while another 67 are advancing towards or are at tender stage, prior to commencement on site. Some of these were delivered in the traditional...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: Yes. If CAS feels there may be a problem on a site it can return to it.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: A financial services unit is in place as part of the joint management body which carries out an audit of spending in the voluntary secondary school sector to ensure that money is spent properly. A similar unit is in place for schools in the ETB sector. It should be monitoring that.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: I will come back to the Deputy on the issue of primary schools. I do not think there is a similar arrangement.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: We will examine that.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: We will examine the situation regarding primary schools.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: St. Patrick's is also included.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: Those in charge of the school section would be able to indicate that they would predict that they would not be able to spend money on the particular projects identified for spending in the current year. At that point, the go-ahead to spend it in another sector would have been given. I do not know if we have information on when it happened. We can get the information for the Deputy. I do...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: On the general issue, the focus is very much on schools. The total budget for schools is €451 million for 2014, and is €70 million for higher education. The policy is to spend the vast majority of the capital budget on schools. As I said, I intended to announce the minor works scheme, which was announced at the same time the previous year. It was a priority, in terms of...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It has been spent on the other programme but the moneys for the schools building programme will be made up. The minor works grant would have used some of the underspend too.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: I am not sure about that and I would need to know the individual schools in question.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: For the new building programme, we will be looking at all schools that have been waiting.