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Written Answers — Inquiry into Child Abuse: Inquiry into Child Abuse (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The person in question has sought to have an institution in which she was resident as a child included in the Schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 for the purposes of making an application to the Redress Board. Section 4 of the Act provides that the Minister for Education and Science may, by order, insert additional institutions in the Schedule to the Act. For an...

Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I understand that the Deputy is referring to a further education course in a College of Further and Higher Education in Northern Ireland. As the Deputy will know, in August 2006 my Department and the Department of Enterprise Trade & Employment made an agreement with the Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland to ensure that access to further education courses for Southern...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Stage 4/5 (Detailed Design and Bill of Quantities) is currently being examined by the Department. When this process is complete the proposed project will proceed to tender.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: An application has been received in my Department under the Small Schools Scheme 2007 from the school referred to by the Deputy. All applications received under this scheme are under consideration and the list of successful applicants will be published shortly.

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (27 Feb 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. DEIS will bring together, and build upon, a number of existing interventions in schools with a concentrated level of disadvantage. As a result of the identification and review...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 494 to 496, inclusive, together. Information in relation to class size is provided by the annual census of primary schools. The census for the current school-year (2006/07) is currently being worked on and data are not yet available. Data at sub-county area are not generally available due to the inordinate amount of work involved. Major improvements have been...

Written Answers — Language Support Programme: Language Support Programme (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy is aware, I indicated at the conference of the Irish Primary Principals Network on 26th January, 2007 that the two teacher rule and the two-year rule will no longer apply. The Deputy will also be aware that recently I announced the schools which are to benefit from the 200 extra language support posts provided for in the 2007 Estimates. These extra 200 posts will bring the...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I wish to advise the Deputy that the home tuition scheme provides funding to parents to provide education at home for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend school. The scheme was extended in recent years to facilitate tuition for children awaiting a suitable educational placement. An educational placement is available for the person referred to by...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Appropriate classroom equipment is provided as part of extension/refurbishment projects and new school buildings funded by my Department. Under the furniture and equipment element of my Departments School Building and Modernisation Programme funding is available for the provision of additional equipment at developing schools or the replacement of outdated/damaged equipment. A special PE...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Office of Public Works (OPW), which generally acts on behalf of my Department on the acquisition of sites for schools, has been asked to source a suitable site for St. Andrew's in Lucan. On foot of an advertisement a number of proposals were received and a technical report on these proposals has just recently been forwarded to my Department for consideration. When a suitable site has...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I can confirm to the Deputy that an application for capital funding to provide a PE hall was received from the school in 1999. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building works and progress on the project is being considered in the context of the multi-annual School Building and Modernisation programme.

Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I would advise the Deputy that traffic management at Dundalk Institute of Technology is a matter for the management authorities of the Institute. The Deputy may wish to contact the management authorities of the Institute directly in this matter.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Officials in the School Planning Section of the Department are in discussions with the owners of the building, where the school referred to by the Deputy is currently accommodated, to secure an extension to the lease, which expires on 30 June 2007. The Department is also actively seeking a permanent long term location for this school.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware of my commitment to ensuring that all children, including those with autism receive an education appropriate to their needs, preferably through the primary and post primary school network. In this context, to address the demand for autism-specific education in the area in question, my Department sanctioned a special early intervention class for younger children on the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: An application for major capital funding was received from the school authority to which the Deputy refers. Officials in the School Planning Section of the Department have assessed the long-term needs of the school and have recommend the provision of an extension to the school to cater for an overall accommodation need of Principal + 8 mainstream assistants. The school authority accepted this...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (27 Feb 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 — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 507 and 512 together. Data relating to school retention for individual schools or in schools in a particular local area such as Dublin postal district are not made available separately by my Department due to my concerns about the way such information might be used to create school league tables with a detrimental effect on educational equality and a...

Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 508 to 511, inclusive, together. The information sought by the Deputy cannot be compiled in the time available for reply. However, the material will be forwarded to the Deputy as quickly as possible.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: An application for major capital funding was received from the school authority to which the Deputy refers. Officials in the School Planning Section of the Department have assessed the long-term needs of the school and have recommended the provision of an extension to the school to cater for an overall accommodation need of Principal plus 16 mainstream assistants. The school authority was...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The application for planning permission to provide a new school building at Ongar, Castaheany was withdrawn at the request of Fingal County Council, until such time as an extension to the site was obtained. The additional land has been acquired and a revised planning application is being lodged on 28 February.