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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: A specific code for archaeological expenditure was only introduced at the beginning of 2011 into the Department's financial management records. Therefore, the information requested can only be supplied for the years 2011 to date and is as follows: Year Amount 2011 €11,338 2012 €52,139 2013 €63,665 2014 (to date) €26,611The calculation of archaeological...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Archaeological Sites (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I assume that the Deputy is referring to the current building project at Buttevant, Co. Cork, which has been devolved to Cork Education and Training Board for delivery. The conditions attached to the planning consent granted by Cork County Council in relation to this project contained a requirement that archaeological monitoring be undertaken during the removal of topsoil and other ground...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Fees (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The fees to be applied to legacy providers seeking to re-engage with QQI, such as the organisations referred to by the Deputy, have yet to be determined. QQI's proposals in that regard, and any associated issues, will be considered when they are made. Officials from my Department recently met with AONTAS to discuss the concerns of community education providers in that regard and to explore...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Awareness (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Guidelines for primary schools on promoting pupils well-being and mental health are currently being developed by my Department. It is expected that the guidelines will be available later this year or early in 2015. These guidelines will complement 'Well-Being in Post-Primary Schools: Guidelines for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention' which were published by my Department in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: An appeal from the student referred to by the Deputy was heard by the independent Student Grants Appeals Board on 02 September 2014 and considered further on 30 September 2014, upon receipt of additional documentary information, with the decision of the SUSI appeals officer upheld. In order to be assessed as an independent mature student an applicant must provide sufficient evidence to show...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that some €1.3 billion will be spent in support of children with Special Educational Needs this year, which represents approximately 15% of my Department's budget. The equivalent proportion of expenditure from 2007 to 2010 was approx. 10%, 10%, 11% and 14% each year while from 2011 to present it represented approximately 15% of my Departments expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Statistics (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The administrative resources necessary to obtain the information requested by the Deputy are not available in my Department at present.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Work is underway in the NCCA on the development of a new integrated English and Irish specification at primary level. The NCCA has consulted on their work so far which is focussed on junior infant classes through to second class. The findings of the consultation are informing the development of the curriculum. It is expected that the new curriculum will be available to schools from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 506 to 513, inclusive, together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The initiative referred to by the Deputy does not fall under the remit of my Department. I understand that the project, in which the DCU Ryan Academy is one of the partners, is supported by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Programme 2007-2013 (InterReg 4A).

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: There has been no change to the funding allocated to Cork ETB in recent months. My Department's general and post primary expenditure grant to an ETB is divided between pay and non-pay. In 2014 Cork ETB received a pay grant of some €89m. The non pay grant amounted to approximately €5.5m. The ETB sector receives capital funding throughout the year in respect of Building...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that schools may apply to the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) for Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support in respect of children with special educational needs who have care needs in schools, in accordance with the criteria set out in my Departments Circular 0030/2014 on the SNA scheme. This circular sets out the significant care needs which normally...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The previous Minister published a report titled "Fee Charging Schools Analysis of Fee Income" on the 5th March 2013 into the discretionary income available to the fee charging schools. The report is an analysis of the funding position of the schools which charge fees. It shows the funds available to these schools through charging fees, which are not available to secondary schools in the Free...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Assuming no issues arise, it would be anticipated that the timeframe for the development of the school concerned, including the appointment of a Design Team to completion of school construction, would be over 42 months. In due course, a patronage determination process will be run for the school in accordance with the published criteria for establishing new schools.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Five fee charging post-primary schools have joined the Free Education Scheme since 2010/11. The net indicative cost to the Department of teacher salaries in the five fee charging schools which transferred to the Free Education Scheme in this period is of the order of €0.7m. This takes account of an increase of 28 posts warranted by the application of the pupil teacher ratio...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Investigations (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy has not identified which school project he is referring to and as my officials were unable to contact the Deputy office for clarification, I am unable to provide an answer to the question. However, when details of the project are supplied I will be happy to answer the question.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Teaching Council is the body with statutory authority, under the Teaching Council Act 2001, for establishing procedures and criteria for the probation of teachers. All primary teachers must complete their probation successfully before they can achieve full registration with the Teaching Council. In order to achieve full registration, a teacher's work is evaluated in a mainstream setting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (21 Oct 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 states "the grant will only be paid in future years as funding permits". The focus under the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme 2012-2016 is on meeting the demand for additional school places. Consequently, there is no funding provided at this time in the 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that €10m of direct exchequer funding will be made available next year for the project to which he refers. This project is one of the three major capital projects in Irish universities which will benefit from the €20m of funding in 2015 that formed part of my budget announcement on Tuesday, 14th October.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing arrangements for the 2014/15 school year are set out in Circular 0007/2014 which is...