Results 8,201-8,220 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department has received three separate applications from the school referred to by the Deputy. Additional funding for the upgrade of the electrical power supply has been approved under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme and the school authorities have been notified accordingly. My Department has recently approved grant aid for loose furniture and dress design equipment for the...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers have applied for grant aid to carry out refurbishment works to an adjacent school building which the school authority has recently acquired. As outlined in the Five Year Plan last March and in view of the need to ensure that every child has access to a physical school place, the delivery of major school projects to meet significant...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 146 and 170 together. The arrangements for panel access for fixed term (temporary), substitute and part-time teachers are set out in Department Circular 0012/2012 which is available on my Department's website. The panels set up in accordance with the arrangements set out in this circular will be used for appointments to full-time permanent teaching posts but...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As part of the Budget 2012 decisions, the number of pupils required to gain and retain a classroom teaching post in small primary schools will be gradually increased between September 2012 and September 2014. The detailed arrangements are set out in the Department's Staffing Circular 0007/2012 that is now published on my Department's website. In these extremely challenging times, all public...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 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 (SNAs) to schools to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's established criteria for the allocation of such...

Written Answers — School Patronage: School Patronage (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 149 and 181 together. In June of last year I announced that up to 40 new schools are to be established within the next six years to provide sufficient school capacity to meet our increased demographics. These consisted of twenty new primary schools and twenty new post-primary schools. This announcement did not include a proposal to establish a new primary...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 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 processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports including resource teaching and Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support, to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is an independent agency with responsibility for determining the appropriate staffing levels in relation to the support of pupils with special educational needs in mainstream and special schools. The NCSE operates within my Department's established criteria for the allocation of supports to schools and the...

Written Answers — Emergency Works Scheme: Emergency Works Scheme (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department recently approved funding under the Emergency Works Scheme for electrical works at the school in question.

Written Answers — Emergency Works Scheme: Emergency Works Scheme (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department has no record of any recent application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme from the school in question. Should an application be received it will be assessed and the school authority will be advised of the outcome.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 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 processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports including resource teaching and Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support, to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates...

Written Answers — Teacher Training: Teacher Training (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The commencement of mandatory Induction for Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) is in keeping with the provisions of the 2001 Teaching Council Act and fulfils a key element of my Department's Literacy and Numeracy Strategy which states that Induction would be mandatory by September of this year. The Induction workshops which the Deputy refers to are designed to complement the learning and...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Payroll and supplier/grant payments are being issued as normal by my Department. The payroll and supplier /grant payments are not processed via Ulster Bank. To date my Department has received only minimal enquiries in relation to this issue and as such I do not see the need at this time to make alternative arrangements. Ulster Bank via its website...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The day to day administration of agencies is a matter for each agency. Every agency has responsibility for its own HR function which includes the management of sick leave. My Department does not collate information on sick leave in agencies. The Department of Finance circular 25/78 governs the conditions that apply to sick leave for officials within the Civil Service. Under these conditions...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations including determining procedures in places where examinations are conducted including the supervision of examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Literacy Levels: Literacy Levels (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Rigorously constructed surveys of attainment in English reading have been carried out since the 1970s. The 2009 National Assessments of Mathematics and English Reading, which are the most recent in this series of national assessments, provide baseline data for future national assessments in English reading at second and sixth class but are not directly comparable with previous assessments....

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: In general, individual school authorities are responsible, in the first instance, for ensuring the safety and welfare of children and others in their care. The issue of road safety measures outside the vested site areas of schools on public roads, such as road signage, traffic calming measures etc., is a matter, however, for the relevant Local Authority. Local Authorities have the power to...

Written Answers — Fire Safety: Fire Safety (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The aggregate information requested by the Deputy is not held by my Department. A school is not required to apply for a Fire Safety Certificate unless it is undertaking building works. A Fire Safety Certificate is a certificate granted by a Building Control Authority certifying that the building or works, if constructed in accordance with the plans, documents and information submitted to the...

Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand that this relates to a student who does not qualify for free fees and is being charged the non EU rate of fee as an international student. As explained in my last reply higher education institutions are autonomous bodies and the criteria governing the level of tuition fees to be charged (EU or Non EU rate), in cases where undergraduate students do not qualify for free fees under...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (10 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Teacher allocations are approved annually in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. My Department has published the staffing arrangements at post primary level for the coming school year, 2012/13. The relevant Post Primary circular is 0009/2012 which is available on my Department's website. The staffing arrangements in schools for the 2012/2013 school year can...