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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The National Council for Special Education is responsible through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for allocating resources to schools, including resource teaching support, in order to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's established criteria for the allocation of such supports and the staffing resources...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Grant Eligibility (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Students entering postgraduates courses who meet the qualifying conditions for the special rate of grant will be eligible to have their post-graduate tuition fees paid up to the maximum fee limit of €6,270 under the Student Grant Scheme. A further limited number of students who would previously have qualified under the standard grant thresholds will qualify to have a €2,000...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The funding to which the Deputy refers, is the arrangement whereby the salaries of teachers employed within the approved annual staffing allocation for fee charging schools by my Department, are paid by the State; an arrangement that pre-dates the introduction of the Free Education scheme and which exists since the foundation of the State. The estimated cost of these posts is in the order of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware in June of last year I announced that up to 40 new schools are to be established up to 2017 to cater for increasing demographics across a number of locations. These consisted of twenty new primary schools and twenty new post-primary schools. This announcement did not include a proposal to establish a new primary school in the area referred to by the Deputy....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: It is in the public interest that there be an adequate supply of qualified teachers and that supply matches the particular specialisms required. However, even with the best possible systems in place, securing equilibrium between demand and supply is not an exact science, and is subject to quite a number of variables. Recent developments, such as the EU rules on mutual recognition of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Grants (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy may be aware, all new applications for the 2012/13 academic year are being processed and paid by SUSI, the new centralised grant awarding authority. Continuing students who are renewing their grant for attendance on an existing course with their existing awarding authority, which will be either a local authority or a VEC, will continue to have their applications processed and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Grant Applications (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The decision on eligibility for new student grant applications from the 2012/13 academic year is a matter for the new centralised grant awarding authority, SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland). Officials in my Department have confirmed with SUSI that documentation was requested from the student referred to by the Deputy in relation to her final course acceptance form. When the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy was included in the 5 year plan announced last March. The project is at an early stage of architectural planning and is scheduled under the plan to proceed to construction in 2014/2015. The Stage 1 report (preliminary design) has recently been reviewed by my Department officials and the project has been authorised to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Each main redeployment panel is created for permanent and CID holding teachers in order to ensure that vacancies in permanent and fixed-term posts are offered in the first instance to these teachers. A secondary and discrete subsidiary of each main redeployment panel, the subsidiary main panel, is created for eligible teachers in fixed term, substitute and part-time posts who meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the enrolment of a child in a school is a matter in the first instance for the parents of the child and the Board of Management of a school. My Department has no role in relation to processing applications for enrolment to schools. The policy of my Department is to secure the maximum possible level of inclusion of students with special educational needs in...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The NCCA did not reckon it was worth mainstreaming. We hope our primary school teachers, who now study for four years and who are coming from the top 15% of leaving certificate results, will have at least one modern continental language and will be able to teach it as primary school teachers so that we do not need dedicated primary school language teachers. We would like to move in that...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the 13 Senators who spoke in this debate for their comments and for the general support I have received from Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, the Independents and my Government colleagues. There is much meat in the document, and I will not repeat it now, but I want to focus on literacy and numeracy and then on the actual junior certificate and how it will be rolled out. As Senator Power...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Their crime was to tell people not to worry and that there would not be one.

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: At level 3-----

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Immense experience.

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Was this from parents or teachers?

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: In the programme for Government, we made literacy a national cause and committed to reforming what students experience in the first three years in post-primary school, that is, between the ages of 12 and 15. I am pleased to be present to outline to Senators the progress that has been made to date. I am very anxious to hear the views of Senators on these reforms and the progress we have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Single European Act (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that the principle of the single market as espoused in the Single European Act, is supported by four freedoms that each member state must provide to its citizens and to those of other member states. Those four freedoms are free movement of people, goods, services and capital. There is no requirement on a company operating within the single market to establish a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Rights (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The guidance notes to which the Deputy refers were developed by my Department to provide assistance to the Employer's Representative and Design Team on issues relating to the pay and conditions of operatives working on school building projects. These guidance notes are for guidance only and do not form part of the Public Works Contract. The National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Grants (23 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with SUSI, the new centralised grant awarding authority, that further supporting documentation was received on 12 October 2012 from the student referred to by the Deputy. The documentation is currently awaiting review and the student will be notified directly of the outcome.