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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department provides for a range of placement options and supports for schools which have enrolled pupils with special educational needs in order to ensure that, wherever a child is enrolled, s/he will have access to an appropriate education. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that the Department of Education and Skills recently terminated the contractor's obligation to complete the works at St Anne's National School in Ardclough, Co Kildare. The Department is liaising with the school authorities and has instructed the Design Team to commence work on procuring a completion contractor to complete the works. Subject to no issues arising, it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The core function of the redeployment panels at primary level is to enable the redeployment of teachers who are surplus in one school to another school that has a vacancy. Under the panel arrangements, the most junior eligible permanent teacher in a school with surplus teaching staff is placed on the panel for redeployment to another school. Responsibility for running schools on a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating Resource Teachers and Special Needs Assistants to schools to support children with special educational needs. SENOs also make recommendations to my Department where assistive technology support is required....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy was allocated funding on a devolved basis in 2004 for the provision of an Autistic Unit. A devolved project allows individual school authorities the means to address their accommodation and building priorities with a guaranteed amount of funding and gives them day to day control of their building project. It is a central tenet of the devolved schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department has asked the school, referred to by the Deputy, for further information relating to its application for significant additional funding for the provision of an ASD unit. When this information is received, the application will be assessed and a decision in the matter will be conveyed to the school authority.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Government announced as part of Budget 2012 that, pending completion of the public service-wide review of allowances, changes to teacher qualification allowances were being made with immediate effect. These changes affect new allowances payable to both existing teachers and to new appointees in the future. Under Budget 2012 teachers appointed before 5 December 2011 are not paid an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Teaching Council is the statutory body with responsibility for registering teachers. The Council's 2009 Registration Regulations set out the criteria for registration. I am advised by the Teaching Council that currently there are just under 4,340 teachers registered on the basis of qualifications in mathematics.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: There are some 723 post primary schools. A total of 691 schools had candidates entered for Higher Level Mathematics in 2012. There were 696 in 2011, 711 in 2010, 697 in 2009 and 699 in 2008. Note that in some cases while a school may be willing and able to offer Higher Level Mathematics, there are no students who wish to take the course or the examination at Higher Level. While the State...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The full information which the deputy has requested is not available. However, chapter 9 of "PISA 2009: Results for Ireland and Changes Since 2000" which was published by the Education Research Centre in June 2012 outlines student performance on the various item types. This is available at:http://www.erc.ie/documents/pisa2009main_nationalreport.p df. In addition, the Education Research...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 452 and 453 together. As part of its response to the call for additional contributions following the publication of the Ryan Report, the Christian Brothers proposed to transfer school playing fields and associated lands, including that at Summerhill, Nenagh, to an independent and separate education trust to be jointly held by the Government and the Edmund...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I have accepted the recommendations set out in a report commissioned by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) on the structures of initial teacher education. The purpose of the report, which I requested, was to identify new possible structures to improve initial teacher education in Ireland so that it is comparable with the best in the world. The international panel of education experts...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter for the relevant grant awarding authority. The Deputy will appreciate that in the absence of all of the relevant details that would be contained in an individual's application form and supporting documentation, it would not be possible for me to say whether or not a student should qualify for a maintenance grant. Officials in my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that the Department of Education and Skills recently terminated the contractor's obligation to complete the works at St Anne's National School in Ardclough, Co Kildare. The Department is liaising with the school authorities and has instructed the Design Team to commence work on procuring a completion contractor to complete the works. Subject to no issues arising, it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Garda Vetting of Personnel (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The arrangements for vetting of teaching and non-teaching staff were introduced in September 2006. In late 2010, my Department issued Circular 0063/2010 which updated and clarified the requirements for Garda vetting as part of recruitment procedures for all teaching and non-teaching positions. Responsibility for complying with the vetting requirements rests with the school authority as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 458 and 465 together. Statistics on the representation of women on state boards have been collated centrally since 2003. Data for the years 2003 to 2011, showing the breakdown by gender for State Boards under the aegis of my Department, is set out below as requested by the Deputy. The Programme for Government includes a commitment to ensure that all State...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Subsidised Private Schools (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy is provided in the tables. ALL FEE PAYING SCHOOLS GROSS SALARY COSTS 2011-2012 SCHOOL YEAR School No. School Address Total Gross Teachers Clerical Officers Total Gross SNAs 60090Q Rathdown School Glenageary Co Dublin 1,408,096 60272W The Kings Hospital Palmerstown Dublin 20 2,773,689 46,028.92 72610.09 60320H St Columba's College...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The decision on eligibility for new student grant applications from the 2012/13 academic year is a matter for the centralised grant awarding authority, Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), a division of the City of Dublin VEC. If an individual applicant considers that she/he has been unjustly refused a student grant, or that the rate of grant awarded is not the correct one, she/he may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (18 Sep 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). The Deputy will appreciate that in the absence of all of the relevant details that would be contained in an individual's application form and supporting documentation, it would not be possible for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Oileáin (18 Sep 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: De réir na socruithe foirne atá leagtha amach i gCiorclán na Roinne 0007/12 tá an scoil dá dtagraíonn an Teachta ina scoil aon-oide rangsheomra anois. Cuireadh múinteoir buan a bhí ag fónamh sa scoil ar an bpainéal ath-imlonnaithe don scoilbhliain 2012/13, de réir mar is caighdeánach do mhúinteoir buan ar bith i scoil ina...