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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: Since 1997 the Minor Works Grant has issued in each school year with the exception of the 2012/2013 school year. The payment of the Minor Works Grant is not confined to any particular date and can in fact, if paid, be issued during any month of the school year. For the 2002/2003 school year, part of the grant was paid in May 2003, with the balance in October 2003.   ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 440 and 451 together. I am aware that schools have reported difficulties in recruiting substitute teachers at primary level and in certain subjects at post primary level, and I am committed to examining all possible means of addressing these issues. I have recruited some 2,300 extra permanent, full time new teachers in 2016-2017 and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: I am informed by Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB) that the facility referred to is funded by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. Accordingly, my Department has no direct role in relation to it. DDLETB supports individual units of the organisation through the Local Youth Club Grant Scheme and Local Youth Club Equipment Grant Scheme. While...

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

Richard Bruton: The major building project referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning Stage 2b (Detailed Design), which includes the application for statutory approvals and the preparation of tender documents. A decision to grant Planning Permission was received from Kildare County Council on 20thDecember 2017. The Design Team is currently working on the Stage 2b report...

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

Richard Bruton: The building project for the school to which the Deputy refers is at an advanced stage of architectural planning, Stage 2b – Detailed Design, which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire Cert and Disability Access Cert and the preparation of tender documents. All statutory approvals have been obtained. The Design Team is currently finalising the stage 2b...

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

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved funding under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme to provide 1 mainstream classroom & 1 WC for assisted users.  The project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority.  The progression of the project is, therefore, a matter for the Board of Management.  However, my Department...

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

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, the project to which he refers has been devolved for delivery to the local Education and Training Board (ETB). Planning permission has been received for the project which is at the detailed design stage.  In this regard, the Stage 2B submission was recently submitted to my Department for examination and approval.  The...

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

Richard Bruton: My Department has not contracted any agencies to provide relationship and sexuality education and social personal and health education over the course of the past four years. National and international research has consistently shown that the qualified classroom teacher is the best placed professional to work sensitively and consistently with students and that s/he can have a powerful impact...

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

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 447 and 448 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that the school referred to has submitted an application to my Department for capital funding for additional accommodation. The Deputy is aware that the school has indicated that the school site is constrained. My Department will continue to engage with the school authority in the context of assisting the...

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

Richard Bruton: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department approved funding to the school in question to construct a Home Economics Room. The school has since written to my Department seeking additional accommodation. The school's correspondence will be considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority subsequently.

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

Richard Bruton: The Disability Act 2005 requires public bodies to promote and support the employment of people with disabilities and to achieve a target of 3% of staff with disabilities. In this Department in 2016 the percentage of employees with a disability under the definition of the Disability Act 2005 is 3.94% Under relevant legislation, aegis bodies of my Department are required to provide my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The Department has agreed to provide funding to enable Institute of Technology Carlow to acquire a site in Co Wexford, with a view to developing a new purpose-built campus on the site. However, given the commercial sensitivities associated with land acquisitions, I am not in a position to comment on progress with respect to this acquisition at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: In order to respond to information requests made by third parties, including public representatives, on behalf student grant applicants in a manner that is fully compliant with the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 and as reflected the SUSI Data Protection Statement, SUSI must be satisfied that grant applicants and other parties to their grant applications have consented that their personal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: My Department recently received the correspondence referred to by the Deputy. I do recognise the need to improve capitation funding for schools having regard to the reductions that were necessary over recent years. Budget 2018 marks the second year of major reinvestment in the education sector, as we continue to implement the Action Plan for Education, which has the central aim to make...

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

Richard Bruton: The major building project referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning Stage 2b (Detailed Design), which includes the application for statutory approvals and the preparation of tender documents. The Design Team has submitted written confirmation that it has completed a final review and is satisfied that the tender documents are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, the review of Caranua is confined to the issue of eligibility of persons who may access the fund. The initial phase, which involves a review of Caranua’s expenditure to date and an estimation of the projected expenditure taking into account applications on hands and anticipated further applications together with an estimation of any possible underspend of the...

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

Richard Bruton: My Department’s policy is that children with special educational needs including those with Autism, should be included in mainstream placements with additional supports provided, unless such a placement would not be in their best interests or in the interests of the children with whom they are to be educated, as is provided for under Section 2 of the Education of Persons with Special...

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

Richard Bruton: In circumstances where a property has ceased to be used as a school, and a request is received to release the State's interest secured under a charging lease, such requests are considered in the context of the specific circumstances which pertain to the individual property. I can confirm that my Department has received a request from the property owners to release my interest in the property...

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

Richard Bruton: In 2014 a working group was established to examine the financial viability of a school of the multi-campus institute referred to by the Deputy. Following the recommendations of this Group my Department approved ring-fenced funding of €750k per annum for 4 years from 2017 to 2020 which equates to a total of €3 million. The decision is subject to a plan including rebranding,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Bruton: The early childhood education and care sector is largely funded and regulated by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The Department of Education and Skills plays an important role in the development and implementation of the two national practice frameworks, Síolta (quality) and Aistear (curriculum).  My Department also supports and advises the Department of Children and...