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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: Funding for primary schools is dealt with on a per capita basis. The two main grants are the capitation grant to cater for day to day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc., and the ancillary services grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff. The following are links to the most recent circulars published on my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: In July 2017 the Stage 2b (Detailed Design) for this project was approved, pending the completion of the process to carry out a shortlisting of suitably qualified building contractors and sub-contractors. The relevant shortlisting contract notices were posted to the Official Journal of the European Community (OJEU) and the Government's E-tenders website on 27 September and 8 October...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The proposed location for the new post-primary school referred to by the Deputy is in Mooretown, Swords. This school building project is on my Department's Rapid Design & Build Programme and the project is currently at architectural planning stage.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, a project to provide permanent accommodation for the new post primary school to serve Malahide/Portmarnock is included on my Department's Capital Programme. Officials in my Department are working with officials in Fingal County Council in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the identification and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, the project to provide permanent accommodation for the school in question is included on my Department's Capital Programme. Officials in my Department are working with officials in the relevant local authority in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the identification and acquisition of a suitable site for this school and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The site for the school referred to by the Deputy has recently been purchased by the St. Laurence O’Toole Diocesan Trust on behalf of the Board of Management for the school. The site purchase was completed in October 2017. Officials from my Department will shortly be in contact with the school regarding the timeframe for progression of this project.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware the building project for the school in question is included on my Department's capital programme. A new school site is required to accommodate this project and officials in my Department have been in contact with the school patron and trustees in relation to the site acquisition.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that construction commenced on the 3rd January 2018 on the school referred to by him. Subject to no issues arising it is envisaged that construction will take approximately 18 months.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, a project to provide permanent accommodation for the school in question is included on my Department's Capital Programme. Officials in my Department continue to liaise with officials in the relevant local authority in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the acquisition of a suitable site for this school.  Discussions with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: Funding which my Department makes available to outside bodies would be for specific purposes related to my Department's policy remit.   In making funding allocations to outside bodies, the Department does not seek information regarding whether the body in question has expended any of its own resources seeking the repeal of the Eight Amendment.  However, if the Deputy wishes to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, a project to provide permanent accommodation for the schools in question is included on my Department's Capital Programme. Officials in my Department are liaising with officials in the relevant local authority in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the acquisition of a suitable site to facilitate the building project. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The new building for the school to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to the local County Council and the project is currently advancing through the necessary architectural planning process. The project is currently completing Stage 2(a) of that process which is the detailed design stage. When the Stage 2(a) submission is received and approved by my Department, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: 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 schools with the highest concentrated levels of disadvantage. The key data sources used in the DEIS identification process are the DES Primary Online...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Costs (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The State Claims Agency are mandated to manage these cases on behalf of the State. The legal fees paid in respect of these cases since the beginning of 2011 to end of 2017 are set out as follows. Table 1: Claims created 2011 – 2017 Table 1 outlines day school claims created under the Minister for Education and Skills between 2011 and 2017 inclusive. 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations.  In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no record of receiving an application from the school referred to for additional accommodation. Any application received will be considered and a response will be conveyed to the school authority subsequently. An application form may be accessed on my Department's website www.education.ie. 

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Service Provision (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The need to improve broadband connectivity to primary schools is recognised in the Digital Strategy for Schools 2015-2020, and as noted access to high speed broadband is one of the indicators identified in the Digital Strategy Action Plan. An interdepartmental working group has been established to determine how best to address broadband connectivity to primary schools in collaboration with...