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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy is aware, an application for planning permission forms part of the site acquisition process for the school to which he refers. A draft design for the school was discussed with the school authority and the design is currently being revised in light of those discussions. The current position of all projects on the school building programme, including this project, may be viewed...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: There are a range of foreign languages available on the curriculum in schools -- French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese and Arabic. Mandarin Chinese is not currently on the curriculum. It is not possible in the current budgetary situation to expand the range of languages available in the post primary curriculum. However, the availability of Transition Year and the option of...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), the action plan for educational inclusion, provided for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and an integrated School Support Programme (SSP). The process of identifying schools for participation in DEIS was managed by the Educational Research Centre (ERC) on behalf of the Department and supported by quality...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations including matters relating to the running of the examinations system following any recent retirements. In view of this, I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 188 and 189 together. Due to conflicting numbers of posts being reported as potentially lost to DEIS Band 1 and Band 2 urban primary schools it was necessary to obtain clarity with regard to the net effect of a range of factors on teacher allocations in these schools; for example, increasing and decreasing enrolments, the reforms to the existing teacher...

Written Answers — School Patronage: School Patronage (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 191 and 192 together. As the Deputy is aware, in June 2011 I announced that 20 new primary and 20 new post-primary schools are to be established in the next six years across a number of locations. This announcement included a proposal to establish a new post-primary school in the area referred to by the Deputy. This school is to be established in September...

Written Answers — Schools Funding: Schools Funding (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The information requested will be collated and forwarded to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The information as requested by the Deputy for teachers in primary, secondary and community/comprehensive schools is not available. As the Deputy will be aware, it is my intention to commence Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act following the enactment of the Education (Amendment) Bill 2012. This will prohibit the employment of unregistered teachers except in very limited circumstances....

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 194 and 196 together. The table sets out the number of freedom of information (FOI) requests received by the Department from 2002 to 2011, along with a breakdown of the fees received in respect of those requests. I have endeavoured to answer your questions as comprehensively as possible, however, it was not possible to provide financial details in respect of...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The number of Special Needs Assistants (whole time equivalent) employed nationally from 2007 to 2011 is available in the following document. The details for each year are the December figures for the year in question. The primary schools information is inclusive of the special schools details. The information in the detailed format requested by the Deputy is not readily available. However,...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The main purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme is to ensure the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are most in need of resources as a result of an emergency situation or on receipt of an enrolment application from a special needs pupil. An emergency is a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or the environment, which is sudden,...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (6 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The CEO of Rehab is not a board member of an agency under the aegis of my Department.

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (1 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to carry out various improvement works to their school building. As the scope of works for which funding is sought is outside the terms of the scheme it cannot be considered for funding. The school authority has been informed of this decision.

Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (1 Mar 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. This may result, however, in some pupils not obtaining a place in the school of their first choice. It is the responsibility of the managerial...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (1 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 81 and 92 together. 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...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (1 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that as outlined to him in my response to his question of 9th February, 2012, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through the local special educational needs organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from primary and post primary schools for resource teaching and Special Needs Assistant Support (SNA). The NCSE operates within my...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (1 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the proposed acquisition of a site for the school he referred to is at an advanced stage and pre-contract enquiries are on-going between the solicitors of the relevant parties. As the Deputy will also be aware, I have already indicated in the context of the announcement of the Government's Medium Term Infrastructure and Capital Investment Framework on the 10th...

Written Answers — School Statistics: School Statistics (1 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: In the 2010/11 school year there were 143 all girls primary schools. The gender of a school is defined according to the enrolment of boys and girls in mainstream classes. A full list of schools with their enrolments is available on my Department's website at the following link: http://www.education.ie/home/home.jsp?pcategory=10917&ecateg ory=12016&language=EN

Written Answers — School Statistics: School Statistics (1 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The names and addresses of all girls schools as requested by the Deputy are contained in the tables. The list for primary schools is for the year 2010/11 as the information for the 2011/12 school year is currently being processed. The list for post-primary schools is for 2011/12 school year. All girls primary schools 2010/11. Roll No. Official School Name Address Line 1 Address Line 2...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 86 and 88 together. It is not possible at the moment to deal with the Deputy's request in full as the priority and urgency for my Department is to complete the teacher allocation process at this time. Notifications are currently being finalised to issue to each DEIS Band 1 and Band 2 school of their staffing entitlements for 2012/13, including the outcome of...