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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that a building project for the school in question is included in my Department's 6 Year Construction Programme. In this regard, my Department is currently engaging with the Education Training Board in the context of progressing a building project for the school and will keep the school patron informed of progress.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: My Department engages Mediavest for public advertisements in connection with a wide range of educational programmes and schemes including, staff appointments in the education sector; invitations to forward submissions on education related-schemes/projects and invitations to tender for school building projects. Mediavest are part of an Office of Government Procurement (OGP) framework which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: The School to which the Deputy refers was allocated funding under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme to provide a two-classroom Special Needs Unit, 6 mainstream classrooms and ancillary accommodation. The letter of approval to proceed to tender for the project was issued to the school authority on 15th June 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: The details sought by the Deputy are not readily available. Officials in my Department are collating the information and I will arrange to have it forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it becomes available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas. For school planning purposes Mooretown is located in the Swords school planning area. As the Deputy will be aware, I recently announced plans for the establishment of 42 new schools over the next four years (2019 to 2022), including an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy includes an extension to the Junior and Senior schools, a new build General Purpose Hall and a Special Needs Unit. Refurbishment works will form part of the overall project. The Junior School will be provided with a new two storey building providing nine classrooms and support spaces with floor area of 531sqm, new double height...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy includes an extension to the Junior and Senior Schools, a new build General Purpose Hall and a Special Needs Unit. Refurbishment works will form part of the overall project. The Senior school will be provided with a new two storey building providing nine classrooms and support spaces with floor area of 686sqm and a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that my Department has received an application for capital funding from the school referred to by the Deputy. The application is currently under consideration and a decision will be conveyed to the school as soon as this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: Paragraph 13 of The Deed of Trust for Community Schools provide for State Indemnity. This indemnifies the Board of Management of Community schools and states the following - - The State shall indemnify the Board and the teaching and non-teaching staff in respect of actions claims or demands taken or made against them arising out of the discharge of their duties whether in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 196 and 198 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has issued approval in principle for temporary accommodation at the school in question to meet the most immediate accommodation requirements. In addition my Department has approved the provision of additional permanent accommodation at the school referred to. Details of the current status...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise that the school referred to by the Deputy has two applications with my Department for improved and additional accommodation, to cater for improved metalwork facilities and new ASD accommodation. In light of the applications on hand, having regard to the constraints of the school site, my Department carried out a technical site visit. Once the conclusions from that visit...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy was previously advised, it is planned to carry out one project at the school to which he refers. The project will entail additional accommodation and car parking facilities. Following a site visit by an official from my Department's Professional and Technical team, the school was issued with possible design solutions for the project. A recent proposal from the school was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Gaeltachta (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: Circulars 0034/2017 and 0022/2018 set out the process involved for post-primary schools in the Gaeltacht to participate in the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme to meet the aims of the Policy on Gaeltacht Education to ensure high quality Irish-medium educational provision in schools located in Gaeltacht language-planning areas. Schools in the Gaeltacht were invited to express an interest...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Gaeltachta (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: Circulars 0034/2017 and 0022/2018 set out the process involved for post-primary schools in the Gaeltacht to participate in the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme and action-planning for improvement process to meet the aims of the Policy on Gaeltacht Education to ensure high quality Irish-medium educational provision in schools located in Gaeltacht language-planning areas. Schools in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Data (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 202 and 203 together. The data requested by the Deputy is not collected or collated by my Department and is a matter for the Universities as the employers. However, in 2016 an Expert Group reported on the level of fixed-term and part-time employment in third-level lecturing, this Expert Group was provided for under the Haddington Road Agreement. To inform...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Remuneration (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I set out in the table the Professorial Salary Scale from 2006. It should be noted that not every Head of Department would have been on that scale due to the concept & practice of rotating headships, established in NUI Maynooth in 2001. The information from NUI Maynooth is in the following table. Date 01/06/2006 01/01/2006 €105,926 €103,342 €111,999...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: To answer the Deputy, the majority of primary and voluntary secondary schools in the Free Education Scheme receive capitation grant assistance to provide for secretarial, caretaking and cleaning services. Capitation related grants are issued to the majority of primary and post-primary schools to employ such staff. Within the capitation grant schemes, it is a matter for each individual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: The two main grants paid by my Department to recognised schools are the Capitation grant to cater for day to day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc and the Ancillary Services grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff. The enrolment in the individual schools is the main driver of grants paid. The following links are the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I wish to confirm to the Deputy that my Department received an application for additional accommodation from the school in question earlier this month. My Department is considering the application and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority as soon as this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 208 and 209 together. My Department allocates recurrent funding directly to a small number of institutions that are currently not under the designation of the HEA, including the institution referred to by the Deputy. However, the internal disbursement of that funding is then a matter for the individual institution. Such institutions are autonomous bodies...