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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I wish to advise the Deputy that Circular 0038/2007 — Criteria for Enrolment for Pupils with Specific Speech and Language Disorder (SSLD) — issued to all primary schools in April 2007 and is available on my Department website at www.education.ie. A copy of this Circular was also furnished to the National Council for Special Education for their information. The circular contains advice...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), the action plan for educational inclusion, provides for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and a new integrated School Support Programme (SSP). DEIS will bring together and build upon a number of existing interventions in schools with a concentrated level of disadvantage. The process of identifying schools for...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 771 and 791 together. The acquisition process for the site referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage. However, due to the commercial sensitivities attaching to site acquisitions generally, I am not in a position to comment further on this matter at this time. I can confirm, however, that the adjoining playing fields are not included in the negotiations.

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 773, 815 and 854 together. My Department funds three maintenance grant schemes for third level students which are administered by the Local Authorities and the Vocational Education Committees. The Higher Education Grant Scheme operates under the Local Authorities (Higher Education Grants) Acts 1968 to 1992. Generally speaking, students who are entering...

Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Earlier this year, Dr. Jim Port was asked to carry out a preliminary examination of the submission made by the Governing Body of Waterford Institute of Technology having regard to (i) national strategy for the development of Irish higher education; (ii) implications for regional development in the South East in the context of the National Spatial Strategy and (iii) any likely implications for...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Details of the primary schools in Co Donegal included in the new School Support Programme (SSP) under DEIS are set out below. Rural/Urban Donegal DEIS Schools Roll No Rural School Name Address County 01733B Rural Ardara Mixed N S Ardara, Co Donegal Donegal 03294L Rural S N Caiseal Na Gcorr Gort A Choirce, Leitir Ceanainn, Co Dhun Na Ngall Donegal 04809A Rural Scoil An Aingil...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Department is currently in the process of trying to acquire a suitable site for the school to which the Deputy refers. As soon as a site has been acquired, progress on a building project will be considered in the context of the multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme.

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Department is currently in the advanced stages of acquiring a site for the school to which the Deputy refers under the Redress Scheme. As soon as the site has been acquired, progress on a building project will be considered.

Written Answers — Home-School Liaison Scheme: Home-School Liaison Scheme (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), the action plan for educational inclusion provides for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and a new integrated School Support Programme (SSP). including. DEIS also brings together and builds upon a number of existing interventions in schools with a concentrated level of disadvantage, including the provision of...

Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Under the terms of my Department's Free Fees Initiative the exchequer meets the tuition fees of eligible students. The main conditions are that students must (a) be first-time undergraduates; (b) hold E.U. nationality or official refugee status; and (c) have been ordinarily resident in an E.U. Member State for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 781 and 782 together. The first bundle of schools to be built in the my current PPP Programme were handed over to the NDFA for procurement in September 2006. The new schools to be provided are St. Mary's CBS and Scoil Chríost Rí in Portlaoise which will be built on the one site. Gallen Community School, Ferbane, Co. Offaly which is an amalgamation of...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy may be aware, the National Braille Production Centre (NBPC), an integral part of the services provided by St. Joseph's School for the Visually Impaired in Drumcondra, Dublin, was established in 2000 to provide blind/visually impaired pupils at first and second level with textbooks in braille and other alternative formats. The NBPC produces educational materials in braille, large...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy is aware, the National Council for Special Education is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers, for the establishment of special classes for autism and for allocating resource teachers and special needs assistants to schools to support children with special needs. I have arranged for the Deputy's request for information to be forwarded to the...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware that all primary and post primary schools have access to psychological assessments either directly through the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS), or through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Where there is no psychologist available through NEPS, a school may access psychological assessments through the Scheme for...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers, for allocating resource teachers and special needs assistants to schools to support children with special needs. SENOs also make recommendations where assistive technology is required. My Department has no record of receiving a...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Under the terms of my Department's Higher Education Grants Scheme, maintenance grants are not payable to candidates who already hold an undergraduate degree and are pursuing a second undergraduate degree. Similarly tuition fees, under the Free Fees Initiative, are not payable in respect of a second period of college attendance on a course at the same level. These restrictions apply to every...

Written Answers — School Safety: School Safety (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: In general, individual school authorities are responsible, in the first instance, for ensuring the safety and welfare of children and others in their care, including traffic management measures. My Department is prepared to consider applications from school authorities for grant-aid towards improving safety arrangements, including car parking, inside the vested area of the school, but would...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers, for allocating resource teachers and special needs assistants to schools to support children with special needs. I have arranged for the details supplied by the Deputy to be forwarded to the NCSE for their attention and direct reply. All...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers, for allocating resource teachers and special needs assistants to schools to support children with special needs. My officials have been in contact with the National Council for Special Education and I understand that the application on...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (26 Sep 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Small Schools initiative devolves funding to individual school authorities to undertake building works which will address the school's long term accommodations needs. The scheme is targeted at primary schools having no more than 4 mainstream teachers where there is a stable level of enrolment projected for the school. Details of the 2008 Small Scheme Schools initiative has not yet been...