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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has a number of strategies and initiatives in place to ensure that further education and training meets the skills requirements of the workplace. SOLAS with the assistance of relevant experts such as the ESRI, employers and local and national organisations have published a five year strategy for the further education and training sector which provides us with a strategic roadmap...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's Planning and Building Unit has no record of receiving an application under the Emergency Works Scheme from the school referred to by the Deputy for works to the playground. Should an application be received, it will be assessed and the school authorities will be notified of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that the establishment of a network of autism-specific special classes in schools across the country to cater for children with autism has been a key educational priority in recent years. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Parent and Student Charter (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that changes to the Education Act, 1998 will be necessary to provide for and support the introduction of a Parent and Student Charter. With this in mind, a set of principles will be required to act as a charter to strengthen the relationship between parents, students and schools, and the position of parents and students generally within the school system. I plan to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (20 Nov 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: Disadvantaged Status (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: St Francis of Assisi NS was deemed to not have a sufficient concentration of disadvantage among its pupils to warrant its inclusion in DEIS. Assessment of schools for inclusion in DEIS was undertaken as an independent process on behalf of the Department by the Educational Research Centre. My key priority at present is to continue to target resources in schools with the most concentrated...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission for the proposed Memorial, which was to be integrated with the Garden of Remembrance, in November 2013. Subsequently, the Memorial Committee advised that the Journey of Light proposal was not transferable to another site as it is inextricably linked with the Garden of Remembrance. Neither did it consider that the Board's decision should be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 provides that those former residents who received awards from the Residential Institutions Redress Board or equivalent Court awards or settlements are eligible to apply to Caranua. This approach was taken having regard to the maximum funds available of €110 million and a potential pool of some 15,000 applicants. As the Deputy may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Residential Institutions Redress Board has completed almost all of the applications received and is finalising the remaining legal costs associated with applications. Apart from this, there are a number of applications on appeal to the Review Committee and there are a number of judicial reviews before the High and Supreme Courts. There is also the issue of the retention of the Board's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 9 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 addresses a range of scenarios where a survivor dies. It provides for applications to be brought by the spouse or children of survivors who would have qualified as applicants and who died after 11th May 1999. It also provides that where an applicant dies after making an application but before the Board has made a determination, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Regulations (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has produced a suite of technical guidance documents, which are available on my Department's website, www.education.ie, to assist design teams in best practice in the design and development of schools in green field site situations. These documents cover all aspects of the development of a building project for both internal and external works....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Payments (20 Nov 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: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (20 Nov 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: Departmental Staff Data (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department has a designated Data Protection/Freedom of Information/Records Management Officer who is responsible for implementing data protection legislation in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. There are 3.25 (whole time equivalent) staff in this office. The DES has published a 'Data Protection Code of Practice' which outlines the steps taken when processing personal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Relationship and Sexuality Education is embedded within Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) at Junior Cycle level. Schools are also required to provide an Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) programme in Senior Cycle. The SPHE curriculum aims to provide a range of generic skills such as communicating, making decisions, knowing where to find reliable data, belonging and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (20 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Circular Letter 0062/2013 which was published, as the Minor Works Grant for the school year 2013/2014 issued last November in the amount of €28m, states "the grant will only be paid in future years as funding permits". At this time there is no funding available within my Department's 2014 financial allocation for the payment of the 2014/2015 Minor Works Grant. On the announcement of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: State Examinations (19 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am willing to look at any information or research that anyone gives me and I have been reading much of it myself. To reiterate, the SEC will stand over all of this certificate, not just 60% of it. They will stand over the assessment that is done in the schools as well as the 60% at the end. We trust the SEC and they will do that.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: State Examinations (19 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: First, they will be doing checks on up to 15%.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: State Examinations (19 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Second, there will be a very careful system of grading and marking and explaining how it is done, etc. There will be an interaction. Senator O'Donnell referred to her experience and I respect that, but at the level of higher or further education people assess their own students all the time.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: State Examinations (19 Nov 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is acceptable