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

Jan O'Sullivan: The information sought by the Deputy is not readily available. The Deputy may wish to note that the total enrolments in each post-primary school by county is available on my Department's website at the following link. The data refers to 2013/14 which is the most recent data available.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The Department does not have schools categorised in a standard way according to suburb\town. The individual enrolments information for each school in the country is available, categorised by county and local authority, on the Department's website at The Deputy will find the relevant information for the schools he is interested in there.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently analysing the latest demographic data on a nationwide basis to determine where additional school accommodation might be needed from 2015 onwards. This process includes an examination of the Malahide and Swords areas. When this exercise has been completed arrangements will be made to make additional accommodation available where it is needed.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 529 and 530 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 established to meet...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department approved significant devolved funding for the school in question to the relevant Education Training Board (ETB) to provide an ASD unit and 3 additional general classrooms. My Department is liaising with the ETB, in question, who are currently in the process of obtaining planning permission and other statutory approvals for the project concerned....

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

Jan O'Sullivan: All new technologies and approaches to sustainable energy efficiency are tested to ensure compatibility with school design and operational requirements. Successful and repeatable results are then incorporated into all new school designs and refurbishments. In 2006 the Department of Education & Skills commenced a unique project in relation to biomass energy use in schools to evaluate...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that all State funded primary schools have been allocated additional resources to provide for children with special educational needs enrolled in school. In primary schools, additional teaching supports for pupils with special education needs are provided through two channels. Under the terms of the General Allocation Model (GAM) of teaching supports, schools are...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I understand that the Deputy is referring to the use of recruitment agencies by Education and Training Boards (ETBs) to fill teaching positions. The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department and would involve an inordinate amount of administrative time to compile. The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department and would involve an inordinate amount of administrative time to compile.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department's capital allocation for 2015 was agreed last week on the occasion of the Budget. The task over the next number of months is to calculate the expenditure commitments arising on projects under construction and schemes/initiatives under delivery. Such commitments will have a first call on the 2015 capital allocation and thereafter consideration will be given to projects and...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that €10m will be made available next year for the library project to which he refers. This project is designed to meet requirements for additional library space and information services at University of Limerick. The UL library project is one of the three major capital projects in Irish universities which will benefit from the €20m of...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The increase in my Department's 2015 current expenditure allocation detailed in Budget 2015 provided in large part for additional numbers of mainstream teachers, resource teachers, special needs assistants and capitation payments for schools. These additional costs amount to approximately €88 million. In the region of three-quarters of these costs are accounted for by increased...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA institutions. The HEA allocates this funding to institutions to cover free fees, core grant and other specific earmarked initiatives. It is then a matter for each institution to determine how such funding is allocated internally. Students who qualify under my Department's...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware, the DEIS programme is the subject of ongoing evaluation by both the Educational Research Centre and my Department's Inspectorate who have produced a series of evaluation reports to date, (copies of which are available on my Department's website). I have also recently commissioned a further overall report in relation to DEIS to provide recommendations for a renewal...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Budget 2012 provided for the phased withdrawal of approximately 428 posts allocated to some schools under disadvantage programmes prior to the introduction of DEIS in 2005. These posts were in 173 DEIS Band 1 and Band 2 Schools, 163 post primary schools, 16 rural DEIS schools and 17 non DEIS schools. My Department produced a report on the impact of the withdrawal of these legacy posts...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the DEIS Action Plan, the 150 urban primary schools serving communities with the highest concentrations of disadvantage have maximum class size of 20:1 in all junior classes and 24:1 in all senior classes. There are no plans to change this programme measure. As the Deputy may be aware, the DEIS programme is the subject of ongoing evaluation by both the Educational Research Centre...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Start Programme (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department published a Focused Policy Assessment of the Early Start pre-school programme in June 2014. This report is available on my Department's website. The assessment indicates that the programme continues to serve the requirements of children who are in need of additional supports to develop to their full potential. The programme has particular benefits in fostering children's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home-School Liaison Scheme (21 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department liaises with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs on an ongoing basis to progress delivery policies relating to improved educational outcomes for all children and young people. My colleague the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has a statutory role in relation to attendance, participation and retention in schools and to the administration of the of the Home...