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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers opened in 2014 under the Patronage Divesting process and is located in temporary accommodation.  A former school building was acquired under the Redress process for the purpose of permanently housing this school and my Department is preparing for the necessary refurbishment works to be undertaken to the property in this regard. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Applications (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: Schools are not required to make an application for inclusion in the DEIS programme as all schools are assessed using a new uniform identification model. We have, for the first time, introduced an objective, statistics based model for deciding which schools merit inclusion in the DEIS Programme, so that all stakeholders can have confidence that we are targeting extra resources at those...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Remuneration (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: Differential pay scales were introduced by the then Government in 2010. It must be borne in mind that the pay reduction for post-2011 entrants to the public service applied to all public servants, and that any restoration of these measures would be expected to be applied elsewhere across the public service. Any further negotiation on new entrant pay is a cross sectoral issue, not just...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Freedom of Information Data (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: The number of freedom of information requests received by my Department in each of the years 2013 to 2017 is set out in the table. Dealing with FOI requests forms part of the standard duties of officials and the time spent on processing such requests is not monitored separately.  Year No of FOI request received ‘The number of requests for these years  that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: I will have to get back to the Deputy to see what point has been reached in the design and development process.

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy probably is aware, there has been an investigation into issues in the University of Limerick following a number of protected disclosures. The investigator has done the work and the university is in the process of acting on the recommendations. I gather some issues continue be examined by the investigators and we are yet to hear from them but the university is in the process of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: I will have to get back to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that following the Capital Review that formed part of the Budget 2018 announcement last October, over €50 million under the capital budget will be made available over the period 2018 - 2021 to cover capital costs associated with new apprenticeship courses and new syllabi, as well as initiating a small number of building projects in the further education and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: The issues raised in the correspondence referred to by the Deputy have been considered by my Department.  The correspondence was resubmitted to my Department recently and a response has issued. The issues raised relate to teacher mobility and the redeployment arrangements at primary level. The redeployment arrangements is the first method used to fill vacancies in the primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that my Department received a major capital application from the school to which the Deputy refers for the development of a new school building. A project for the school has not been included in my Department's 6 Year Capital Programme and it is, therefore, not possible to provide an indicative timeframe for the delivery of a major project for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary schools. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to support students, access to a NEPS psychologist for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: Under the provisions of the Education Act 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school. The Board of Management of each school is responsible for the care and safety of all of the students in their school and care and safety should be at the centre of all policy and practices. The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) advise that, by law,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school in question submitted an application for capital funding to construct corridors and a meeting room. The Deputy will be aware that my Department's current priority within the limited funding available, is the provision of essential classroom accommodation in areas where significant demographic need has been established to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: The ownership of the site title for the Schools Bundle 5 PPP sites are as follows: - Carlow Site – site title rests with Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board - Kells Site – site title rests with the Department of Education and Skills - Bray Site – construction works currently under a construction licence from NAMA. Full site title will automatically...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: I understand that the Deputy is referring to the criteria for entry to primary Initial Teacher Education. In addition to the CAO points required (in the case of the Bachelor of Education) or the third level award requirement (in the case of the Postgraduate Masters in Education) for entry to programmes of primary Initial Teacher Education, my Department specifies minimum entry...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: Initial teacher education (ITE) for primary and post-primary teachers is facilitated through a range of concurrent (undergraduate) and consecutive (postgraduate) programmes. The Teaching Council is the statutory body that sets and upholds the standards for entry to the teaching profession. One of the Council’s responsibilities is to review and accredit programmes of ITE...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: It is the Department’s intention that all our pupils receive a quality Physical Education, as part of a curriculum aimed at supporting their holistic development. This involves appropriate instruction in a variety of movement forms that are designed to enhance the physical, cognitive, social and emotional development of all pupils. Dance is one such movement form. The Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware the report of the Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector recommended that demand for patronage diversity should be met in areas of stable population by divesting patronage of existing schools where there is evidence of parental demand for change.    In this context, in 2012/13, the Department of Education and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: Every school across the country, both Primary and Post Primary, were assessed to identify the level of disadvantage among their pupil cohort. As the Deputy may be aware, the identification of levels of disadvantage in schools is based on data provided by schools themselves, combined with publicly available Small Area of Population Census data, as represented by the Pobal HP Index. Schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, an ASD Unit, including a sensory room has been established in the school in question. In this regard, my Department provided start-up grants to the school for this purpose. Start-up grants assist schools in purchasing teaching aids, classroom equipment or carrying out alterations for newly established special classes. It is open to the school in question to...