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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: There are 33 vocational education committees (VECs) established under the Vocational Education Acts, 1930 to 2001. Each VEC is a statutory body with its own corporate status. The functions and responsibilities of the VECs, including their requirements to report to the Minister for Education and Science, are defined in the governing legislation. VECs provide a broad range of educational...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Department is aware of the current and planned housing developments for the area to which the Deputy refers and that additional accommodation will be required at the school in question to cater for a consequential increase in enrolments. As the Deputy will know, all applications for large scale capital funding are assessed against published prioritisation criteria and assigned a Band...

Written Answers — Teacher Training: Teacher Training (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: St. Patrick's College, Mary Immaculate College, Froebel College and Coláiste Mhuire Marino were established as denominational training colleges. However, they each now have links with third level colleges (DCU, UL and TCD respectively) and accept students of all faiths and none. Religious affiliation is not used by any of the Catholic Colleges of Education as an entry requirement. The...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Office of Public Works, which acts generally on behalf of this Department on the acquisitions of sites for schools, has been requested to source a site for this school. A suitable site has been identified and its acquisition is at the conveyancing stages. Agreement to enter a contract for the purchase of the site will be considered in the context of my Department's School Building and...

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The request for recognition to which the Deputy refers is associated with an application from the organisation in question for inclusion in the Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) pilot scheme which is funded by my Department. The Deputy will be aware of my commitment to ensuring that all children including those with special needs can have access to an education appropriate to their needs...

Written Answers — Departmental Records: Departmental Records (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has arrangements in place with external organisations for the safe and secure disposal of redundant information technology equipment. These organisations provide written confirmation that the disposal has been completed in a manner that renders all stored information unretrievable.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The following is the information sought by the Deputy in relation to Press Officers employed in my Department or by bodies under the aegis of my Department in 2007 and 2002: 2007: Department of Education and Science — 1 Press officer 2002: Department of Education and Science — 1 Press officer Bodies under the Aegis of my Department 2007: National Education Welfare Board (NEWB) — 1 Press...

Written Answers — Departmental Websites: Departmental Websites (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information sought by the Deputy is being compiled in my Department and will be sent to him as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Energy saving lighting (using passive infra red fittings) has been installed in my Department's Athlone offices. The OPW are to investigate the suitability of using these fittings in the Dublin and Tullamore offices. Long life CFL lamps (energy efficient lighting) are used throughout my Department's offices where light fittings are suitable. In addition my Department has recently re-tendered...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: An application for capital funding towards the provision of a new school on a Greenfield site has been received from the school authority referred to by the Deputy. The application has been assessed and the long-term projected staffing figure on which accommodation needs will be based has been determined and notified to the school authorities. The Property management Section of the Office of...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy is aware, a new general allocation system was introduced in May 2005, under which schools have been provided with resource teaching hours, based on their enrolment figures, to cater for children with high incidence special needs such as dyslexia and those with learning support needs. The general allocation system means that rather than schools having to make individual...

Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Grangegorman Development Agency has been informed by my Department that a site for a sixteen classroom school is required for the school in question and that provision should be made for this in the overall strategic plan for the development of the Grangegorman site. The proposed phasing for the delivery of the various aspects of the development will be identified by the Grangegorman...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Department is aware that the current lease of the premises to which the Deputy refers is due to expire in June 2008. In this context, the Department is actively pursuing a number of options to accommodate the school elsewhere. It is understood that the school itself has a proposal and the Department is awaiting details of this. In the longer term, the Department has requested that a...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The revised primary curriculum was launched in 1999 after extensive consultation with the partners in education. Page 27 in the Introduction to the Curriculum states "It is a particular feature of Irish primary education that children, from the beginning of schooling, have experience of language learning in two languages." It also sets out a suggested minimum weekly time framework for...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: An application for capital funding towards the provision of an extension has been received from the school authority referred to by the Deputy. An assessment of projected enrolment trends, demographic trends and housing developments in the area will be required in order to determine the long term projected enrolment figure on which the school's accommodation needs will be based. Once the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy will be aware, all applications for large scale capital funding are assessed against published prioritisation criteria and assigned a band rating. Progress on individual projects is then considered in the context of the multi-Annual School Building and Modernisation Programme consistent with that band rating. This is the case for the project in question which has been assigned...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 489 to 494, inclusive, together. Information on the breakdown of individual projects and the funding allocated in each individual case is not readily available in the format in which it has been sought. However, if the Deputy requires information on a particular building project, I will arrange same to be provided.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy applied for funding for works under the Summer Works Scheme 2008. The breakdown of the 2008 building budget between the devolved and other schemes has not yet been determined.

Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Section 29 of the Education Act 1998 provides for an appeal to the Secretary General of my Department where a Board of Management of a school or a person acting on behalf of the Board refuses to enrol a student; suspends a student for a cumulative total of more than twenty days in an academic year; or expels a student from the school. In the year up to 19 September 2007, the number of...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 Dec 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The teacher referred to by the Deputy is currently on secondment approved by her Board of Management. The scheme of secondment is designed to facilitate the temporary release of a permanent teacher from his/her teaching post and the procedures for secondment arrangements are set out in Department Circular 11/02. Under these arrangements a Board of Management, in framing a policy position on...