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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Firstly I wish to advise the Deputy that this Government has maintained funding for resources for children with special educational needs at a time when there is a continued requirement to make expenditure savings across a range of areas. There is no overall reduction in Resource Teaching or Special Needs Assistant (SNA) numbers for the coming school year. The National Council for Special...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Jun 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 Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support, to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Jun 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 Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support, to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I have advised the Deputy previously 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 Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support, to support children with special educational needs. SENOs are currently notifying...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (21 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The assessment of means under my Department's student grant scheme is based on gross income from all sources. Therefore, all income is assessed from the same starting point, eliminating any distortion which might arise from different spending decisions. The means test arrangements of the student grant scheme are applied nationally. In the case of both employed and self-employed applicants,...

Written Answers — Bullying in Schools: Bullying in Schools (21 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy is aware, the Anti-Bullying Forum, which was held on Thursday 17th May, brought together a range of experts, support groups and representatives of the schools sector including parents and students. I was very pleased to open this important Forum and to provide an opportunity to explore with all the relevant stakeholders how best to tackle bullying in schools and to consider...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (21 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The question of enrolment in individual schools is the responsibility of the managerial authority of those schools. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking places. It is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of schools that are not in a position to admit all pupils seeking entry to implement an...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Firstly I wish to clarify for the Deputy that there is no overall reduction in Resource Teaching or Special Needs Assistant (SNA) numbers for the coming school year. This Government has maintained funding for resources for children with special educational needs at a time when there is a continued requirement to make expenditure savings across a range of areas. The National Council for...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (21 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As outlined in the Five Year Plan, the delivery of major school projects required to meet demographic demand will be the main focus for capital investment in the coming years. Due to the financial constraints imposed by the need to prioritise available funding to meet future demographic demands, it has not been possible to advance all applications for capital funding concurrently. The Deputy...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy in respect of new primary teachers is not readily available.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department has sought the assistance of, and is working closely with, the relevant Local Authority in relation to identifying and acquiring a suitable site for the proposed school referred to by the Deputy. Due to commercial sensitivities attaching to site acquisitions generally, I am not in a position to comment further at this time.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware, I recently announced a programme for the delivery of school buildings over the next five years as part of a major investment programme. I can confirm that a project for a new building for the school to which the Deputy refers was included in that announcement. The timeline for when work will proceed on the proposed building is indicated in my announcement. Each...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning. My Department has been in contact with the Board of Management and their Design Team, who are working on the Stage 1 Design, to arrange a meeting at which the design options will be reviewed. This is an integral part of my Department's Design Team Procedures and is intended to...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy is aware, the Government's Medium Term Infrastructure and Capital Investment Framework, which was published on 10th November last, sets out the demographic challenge facing the education system. Total enrolment in both primary and post-primary schools is expected to grow by almost 70,000 between now and 2018 - over 45,000 at primary level and 25,000 at post primary - and will...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The attached document provides the relevant details of all appointments (and re-appointments) made to bodies under the aegis of my Department since my appointment as Minister on the 9th of March, 2011. Breakdown of appointments since March 2011 Agency Name Number Appointments /re-appointments Names Notes Education Finance Board 2 re-appointments7 appointments Mr. Sean Benton...

Written Answers — Teaching Council of Ireland: Teaching Council of Ireland (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Each person appointed to a teaching post should be registered with the Teaching Council. As the Deputy may be aware, the Teaching Council is the body with statutory responsibility for regulation of the teaching profession. The Teaching Council's registration regulations are set out on its website and provide details of the requirements for those wishing to register on the basis of...

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Comments and observations regarding test instruments are an intrinsic part of the feedback that SEC would normally expect to receive in any year. The well-tried methodology in place to deal with issues that arise in the course of the examination process is the development of the marking scheme by the Chief Examiner and his college of examiners in light of the circumstances of that year's...

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware, in June 2011 I announced that 20 new primary and 20 new post-primary schools are to be established up to 2017 across a number of locations. This announcement did not include a proposal to establish a new primary school in the area referred to. However, my Department will continue to monitor enrolments in the Portobello area to ensure that there is sufficient...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The project to provide an ASD unit at the school referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning. My Department is awaiting receipt of a Stage 2a submission (Developed Sketch Scheme) from the school's Design Team. Due to the financial constraints imposed by the need to prioritise the limited funding available for the provision of additional school accommodation to...

Written Answers — Memorial to Victims of Institutional Abuse: Memorial to Victims of Institutional Abuse (19 Jun 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The provision of a memorial to victims of abuse while in institutional care was one of the recommendations of the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, which were unanimously accepted and supported by Dáil Éireann. A memorial committee, chaired by Mr Seán Benton, was appointed to oversee the commissioning of the memorial with a budget of up €0.5m being set aside therefor....