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Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Office of Public Works (OPW) are acting on behalf of my Department on the acquisition of a site for this school. The site comprises two lots of lands. Contracts have been signed. The Chief State Solicitor is, however, still awaiting further documentation that is needed to close the sale and transfer title and his Office is in regular contact with the vendors' Solicitors to expedite...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Office of Public Works (OPW) are acting on behalf of the Department in relation to the acquisition of a site for the project and the acquisition of same is currently at contract/conveyancing stages. On completion of the site acquisition process the project will progress in the context of the Department's multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The School Planning Section of the Department processes applications for school building projects on an ongoing basis. The appointment of a design team to suitable projects, is considered in the context of the multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme. Such appointments are included as part of a series of announcements published at intervals on the Department's website. In...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Significant progress has been made in progressing a range of areas highlighted in the Report of the Task Force on the Physical Sciences e.g. A new science curriculum has been introduced at primary level supported by a resource grant in December 2004 of €1000 per school plus €10 per pupil. A revised syllabus in Junior Certificate Science was introduced in 2003 and it was examined for the...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: A reply has issued from the Higher Education: Equity Of Access unit of my Department in respect of a Notice of Appeal submitted from the candidate referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I believe that the issue to which the Deputy refers is the degree requirement that must be satisfied by applicants for the Post Graduate Diploma in Education (Primary Teaching) and the fact that this degree must be at level 8 on the National Qualifications Framework, whilst there are other academic qualifications at level 8 on the Framework which are not honours degrees and do not satisfy...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department and would involve an inordinate amount of administrative time to compile. Please see the following list of bodies under the aegis of my Department. If the Deputy has any queries in relation to a particular body then officials in my Department would be more than happy to discuss these with him. Bodies under...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (2 Oct 2007)

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

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the following table. State Board No. of Appointments Date of Appointment Union of Students in Ireland 1 01/10/2007 National Qualifications Authority Ireland (NQAI) Board 1 01/10/2007 Limerick Education Centre 1 01/10/2007 Kildare Education Centre 1 01/10/2007 Grangegorman Development Agency 1 September 2007 New Schools Advisory...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: An application was submitted by the school referred to by the Deputy under the Permanent Accommodation Scheme 2007. On Monday, 5 March 2007, I announced details of the schools to receive funding under the Permanent Accommodation Scheme 2007. However, this application was not successful. In the context of the available funding for temporary accommodation and the number of applications for...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy was one of a number of schools I announced in 2005 to progress through architectural planning. The long term projected enrolment has recently been reassessed for this school. As the brief for the project was subsequently increased, my Department's technical team carried out an assessment to determine how best to progress the...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I wish to advise the Deputy that the application for Home Tuition is currently under consideration within my Department for the child in question. It is expected that a decision will be made on this application shortly.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: A revised stage 3 submission (detailed design) for the project referred to by the Deputy, is currently with my Department. A meeting with the school management and their Design Team is due to be held on the 12th October to evaluate this submission. If this submission proves satisfactory the school will be authorised to take the project to the next stage i.e. Planning Permission and...

Written Answers — Educational Planning: Educational Planning (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Since the publication of the N4/M4 area development plan, officials of the Department have met with Westmeath County Council officials on a number of occasions. The future education infrastructural requirements at primary and post primary level in Kinnegad, and county Westmeath generally, were discussed in detail. Population trends in the area are being monitored by School Planning Section...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: On 5 March 2007, I announced details of the schools to receive funding under the Small Schools Scheme 2007. The application from the school to which the Deputy refers was successful and officials from School Building Section have been in contact the school authority advising them of the next steps in the process.

Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that agreement has been reached to re-organise the two schools to which the Deputy refers to form junior and senior schools. In order to ensure that future demand for education through the medium of Irish in Clondalkin can be catered for, it is the Department's intention to plan for the delivery of two sixteen classroom schools. It has been agreed with...

School Placement. (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I welcome Deputies Brian Hayes and Quinn as spokespersons for their respective parties and thank them for facilitating the change to today's business. In recent years unprecedented levels of investment have been provided both to improve existing school facilities and provide extra school places where needed. Improved forward planning has also been put in place through greater co-operation...

School Placement. (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Up to 15,000 more children are attending school than was the case at this time last year. A great deal of work was done to accommodate each of these additional children and only 50 children were left without a place. While phenomenal progress was made in ensuring places were made available, it can be difficult to achieve complete accuracy in this regard owing to the movement of people into...

School Placement. (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: There is nothing secretive about the manner in which the Department works. I will give two practical examples. First, the production of our area development plans is a public process in which consultation with every interested partner and members of the public is invited. A number of such plans, which determine what schools are needed and where they are needed, have been published. This...

Departmental Staff. (2 Oct 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department has been prioritising developing areas for investment under the school building and modernisation programme. During the period of the previous National Development Plan 2000-2006, record levels of investment and the streamlining of delivery systems allowed a major acceleration of the schools building programme. More than €2.6 billion was invested...