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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 524 and 525 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that the information sought in respect of the number of newly appointed resource teachers in each of the past five years in primary schools in Counties Westmeath and Longford is not readily available in my Department. As the Deputy is aware, there has been enormous progress made over the past number of years in...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 526 and 527 together. There are currently 56 Special Need Assistants (whole-time equivalents) employed in primary schools in County Longford with 159 employed in primary schools in County Westmeath. As the Deputy is aware, there are over three thousand two hundred primary schools in the country. The compilation of information regarding the number of SNAs...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the following table. Language Support Teachers — County Longford School Year Number of Teachers 2002/2003 Nil 2003/2004 3 2004/2005 2 2005/2006 4 2006/2007 (to date) 9

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the following table. Language Support Teachers — County Westmeath School Year Number of Teachers 2002/2003 8 2003/2004 8 2004/2005 9 2005/2006 11 2006/2007 (to date) 18

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: At the outset, I want to assure the Deputy that the Department is anxious to provide a long term accommodation solution for the school to which he refers. In this regard, the Property Management Section of the Office of Public Works, which acts on behalf of the Department in relation to site acquisitions generally, was asked to explore the possibility of acquiring a site for the school....

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I can confirm that the Department is in receipt of an application for major capital funding from the management authority of the school to which the Deputy refers. The application was assessed in accordance with published prioritisation criteria for large scale works and was assigned a band 2 rating. Progress on the proposed works will be considered in the context of the School Building and...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The schools referred to by the Deputy will amalgamate on the 1st September 2007. My Department has already granted the proposed amalgamated school a concessionary post. This post was granted in the 2006/2007 school year in order to allow the amalgamation to proceed.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I can confirm to the Deputy that an application for capital funding to provide a PE hall has been received from the school to which the Deputy refers. 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 School Building and Modernisation Programme from...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware that my Department implemented a general allocation system of learning support/resource teachers to mainstream primary schools in September 2005. The system is intended to cater for children with high-incidence special education needs such as mild general learning disability and learning support needs, including dyslexia. It is a matter for each school to identify the...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (20 Feb 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), which generally acts on behalf of the Department...

Written Answers — School Safety: School Safety (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: A school is entitled to payment for 37 hours supervision per annum for each full-time teaching post (including temporary full-time teaching posts), or to a minimum of 122 hours per school, whichever is the greater. The number of full-time teaching posts allocated to a school on 30 September in a particular school year determines the number of hours supervision due to a school in that year....

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Twenty seven (27) officers from my Department have transferred under the programme of decentralisation either directly to their location of choice or they relocated there within a very short period of their initial transfer. This information is available as it was known to my Department when these transfers were arranged. There are no records in my Department regarding the current...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (15 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 157 to 159, inclusive, together. The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available. The demand for additional accommodation in schools has risen significantly over the last number of years mainly due to the rapid expansion in teacher numbers particularly in the area of special needs, the growth in the school-going population in rapidly...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (15 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: My Department funds four maintenance grant schemes for third level and further education students. These are the Higher Education Grants (HEG) Scheme, the Vocational Education Committees' (VEC) Scholarships Scheme, the Third Level Maintenance Grants Scheme for Trainees and the Maintenance Grants Scheme for Students attending Post Leaving Certificate Courses. The HEG Scheme is administered by...

Written Answers — In-service Training: In-service Training (15 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: When the establishment of an Ionad Náisiúnta Oideachais Gaeilge in Baile Bhuirne was announced in 1999 the intention was that it would function as a national centre of excellence to support the teaching of Irish and through Irish, and would engage with education institutions from pre-school to third level. When the project went to tender, the construction costs were deemed excessive and it...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (15 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy is administered by City of Waterford VEC. The terms and conditions of employment of teachers in the school are therefore a matter for the VEC, subject to agreed procedures.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (15 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Qualified teachers paid on my Departments' payroll who are teaching in recognised special schools are paid on the common basic scale for teachers. They are paid appropriate qualification and post of responsibility allowances. The salary scale and allowance details for teachers are outlined on my Departments' website. The pay increase of 3% due from the 1st December, 2006 as a result of the...

Written Answers — School Closures: School Closures (15 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Trustees of the school referred to have confirmed their intention to close the school and have recently reaffirmed to the Department that the closure will be on a phased basis and will commence in September 2007, with all students in junior cycle being given the option of proceeding to senior cycle, including the opportunity to avail of a transition year. The Trustees have also confirmed...

Written Answers — Third Level Students: Third Level Students (15 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The most recent figures available from Eurostat are for 2003/04. In that year, a total of 17,422 Irish students were studying abroad. Of that number, 16,266 were studying in higher education institutions in other EU Member States. The remaining 1,156 students were studying in Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Albania, the...

Written Answers — Third Level Students: Third Level Students (15 Feb 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The most recent figures available are for the academic year 2005/2006. In that year, 1567 Irish students studied abroad under the Erasmus programme.