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Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 488 and 489 together. The Department is currently in negotiation around the possibility of acquiring the building to which the Deputy refers. This process is complex involving as it does suitability assessment, valuations, price negotiations and attendant legal formalities. The Department is keenly aware that the issues concerned are commercially sensitive and...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: My Department intends to permanently accommodate the school referred to by the Deputy in a building which it expects to be vacated post an amalgamation of three schools in the immediate area. Discussions are ongoing among the parties concerned to agree the structure of the amalgamation. A technical inspection of the buildings concerned was recently carried out to determine the scope of works...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (5 Apr 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 — School Discipline: School Discipline (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Each Board of Management is responsible for formulating, in consultation with parents, a fair and efficient code of behaviour. Among other things, the current guidelines provide that Codes of Behaviour should be considered in the context of the school being a community in which mutual respect, co-operation and natural justice are integral features. The Guidelines stress that poor behaviour...

Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 493 and 494 together. Enrolment in individual schools is the responsibility of the managerial authority of those schools and the Department does not seek to intervene in decisions made by schools in such matters. The Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking places. This may result,...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: This project referred to by the Deputy was listed on the 2005 School Building Programme to go to tender and construction for a new 10 classroom school building, when the architectural planning was completed. As this is a special school the brief for the project has evolved over time with input from the school, my Department's Technical staff and Inspectorate. My Department is anxious that the...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The judgment in question was delivered on the 29th of March 2007. My Department is currently considering the judgment and any implications it may have.

Written Answers — Third Level Education: Third Level Education (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Higher education in Ireland has come through a period of major expansion. Overall investment in the sector on a per annum basis has more than doubled since this Government took Office in 1997. In 1997, the amount of funding provided to the Higher Education level sector was approx. €850 million. The funding being provided in 2007 represents an increase of over €1 billion or 124% on the...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: In accordance with the Education Act, schools are managed by the Patron and the Patron is responsible for the direct governance of a school. The Patron nominates a Board of a Management to manage a school on its behalf. Section 24 (1) of the Education Act 1998 provides that the Board of Management "may appoint such and so many persons as teachers and other staff of a school as the board...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: An application for capital funding has been received from the school to which the Deputy refers. This application will be assessed with reference to factors such as current and projected enrolments at the school, the likely impact of ongoing and proposed housing developments and existing provision in the general area. When this assessment is complete, a decision will be taken on how best to...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Department is actively engaged in sourcing a suitable site to facilitate the construction of a new school building for the school referred to by the Deputy and to that end is in ongoing discussions with the GMIT in relation to the availability of lands for the provision of a 16 classroom primary school. The Deputy can be assured that the permanent accommodation needs of the school in...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: An application for a new build school in respect of the school referred to by the Deputy has been assessed and the long term projected staffing, on which the accommodation needs will be based, has been determined and notified to the school authority. The current position regarding the site acquisition is that the Office of Public Works (OPW), is currently in negotiations on the purchase of a...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the school to which he refers is included in todays announcement of 56 large scale building projects countrywide which have been approved to progress under the School Building and Modernisation Programme. These will be progressed by way of the appointment of a design team.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information sought by the Deputy is not readily available as it is not compiled in the format sought. However, the 'List of Post Primary Schools' which contains detailed information on all post primary schools, is provided to the House each year for distribution to each member of the Oireachtas and includes school enrolment details. I will arrange for a copy of the most recent...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (5 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department and would take an inordinate amount of administrative time to compile.

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Funding was allocated to the Life Centre, Pearse Square in December 2006 through the Fund for the Development of Targeted Educational Responses to Certain Children at Risk (CAR Fund) to provide a programme for young people between the ages of 12 and 16 who are out of the mainstream school system. The objective of the Fund is to develop preventative and supportive programmes, which are...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The mainstream staffing of a primary school is determined by reference to the enrolment of the school on 30th September of the previous school year. The actual number of mainstream posts sanctioned is determined by reference to a staffing schedule which is issued to all primary schools each year. Data submitted to my Department by the Board of Management of the school referred to by the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The need for a replacement school on a greenfield site for Blennerville National School has been determined by the Department. A suitable site has been acquired for that purpose. The building project required to deliver the new school will be progressed in the context of the multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme.

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information sought by the Deputy is being compiled by officials in my Department and will be forwarded to her as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Higher Education & Training Awards Council (HETAC) is to decentralise to Edenderry. The overall number of posts involved is in the region of 32. HETAC has produced an implementation report for the Decentralisation Implementation Group (DIG) and recruitment takes place on the basis that the body will decentralise. I understand that OPW has acquired a site for the proposed decentralisation...