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Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Ashbourne Community School was recently extended to cater for 1,000 pupils. It is expected that this level of provision will be sufficient to meet the needs of the area for the foreseeable future. However, the Department is continuing to monitor housing and demographic developments in Ashbourne using its contacts with the local authority. Under this process, the Department expects to be in...

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has been in consultation with the Department of Health and Children concerning a proposal from Foróige to fund a youth worker in Tramore, Co. Waterford. The Youth Affairs Section of my Department administers the Special Projects for Youth Scheme. Under this Scheme, grant-aid is made available on an annual basis to organisations and groups for specific projects which seek to...

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: My Department's Youth Affairs Section provides support for a number of schemes and initiatives designed to ensure the provision of non-formal educational opportunities for young people throughout the country. It provides grant-aid assistance for national and major regional youth organisations under the Youth Service Grant Scheme, for special projects for disadvantaged young people under the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The provision of a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school has been sanctioned for Phibblestown Dublin 15. This school has taken longer than expected due to difficulties in acquiring the site. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that as part of my Department's partnership with Fingal County Council the site purchase can now be concluded. The site is almost 8.5 acres in size and the legalities on...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The assessment of means under my Department's Third Level Student Maintenance Grant Schemes is based on gross income from all sources, with specified social welfare and health service executive payments being excluded from the calculation. Income in respect of a VTOS course is assessable. I have no plans at present to depart from the above practice in respect of the determination of income.

Written Answers — Schools Funding: Schools Funding (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: An application has been received in my Department from the school referred to by the Deputy under the Small Schools Scheme 2007. My Department is currently assessing all applications received from schools for funding under this programme. The list of successful applicants will be published as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The Department is aware of the need to provide a long term solution to the accommodation needs of the school to which the Deputy refers. The provision of a permanent home for the school has a Band 1 priority status under the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects. Locating the school in the Skerries area is one of a number of possible solutions under...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The Department is addressing the issue to which the Deputy refers through the relative Patron bodies which is the correct protocol. The Department is hopeful of a resolution of the matter in the near future.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy has made an application under Summer Works Scheme 2007 for refurbishment works which would allow for the provision of additional accommodation for Special Education and Language Support Teachers. All applications under the Summer Works Scheme 2007 are currently being assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria and I intend to...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Bus Éireann, which operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department have advised that they have no service, within the scheme, operating to the school referred to by the deputy, in the details supplied. The Deputy should liaise with the school authorities and the relevant Local Authority regarding traffic management in the vicinity of school grounds.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The Department have asked the Office of Public Works to advise on the availability and suitability of the site to which the Deputy refers. When the outcome of the OPW's investigation is known, full consideration can be given to the school's re-location proposal.

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy in the details supplied, has a transport service within the guidelines of the School Transport Scheme. Queries regarding the supervision of pupils should be addressed to the chairperson of the board of management of the school in question.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The Department is aware of the need to provide permanent accommodation for the school in question. Accommodation options are currently under consideration and when a decision has been taken the school authority will be contacted directly in the matter.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The Department is aware of the need to re-locate the facility to which he refers. Possible accommodation solutions are currently under consideration and when a decision has been taken the school authority will be contacted directly.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 481 and 497 together. I can confirm to the Deputy that a Notice of Intention to apply for the recognition of a new primary school to commence operation next September has been submitted to the New Schools Advisory Committee, NSAC. As with all such applications, a full application must be submitted to the NSAC no later than 31 January 2007 and, following the...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware that I recently announced a series of measures to assist primary school principals with particularly significant levels of non-teaching duties. The new measures include that when a school with a principal and four or more mainstream class teachers also has a specialist autism unit, established under approval of the National Council for Special Education, the Principal...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: My recent announcement referred to by the Deputy introduced a range of new measures to improve the capacity of schools to cater for the educational needs of all their pupils and will assist their principals in their work. Some principals have particularly heavy workloads arising from the size of their school. Others carry additional duties arising from the fact that in addition to their...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: In accordance with the terms of Primary Circular 0023/2006, which sets out the details of the staffing schedule for the 2006/2007 school year, in ordinary primary schools and schools in the Gaeltacht with an enrolment of less than 179 pupils or in Gaelscoileanna with an enrolment of less than 158 pupils, that have a staffing of a Principal plus nine or more teachers when all ex-quota posts...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible for the appointment and deployment of Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) and is subject to the terms of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act, 2004. The NCSE provides services in all areas of the State through its network of Special Educational Needs Organiser...

Written Answers — School Equipment: School Equipment (12 Dec 2006)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy will be aware, the two major investment priorities under the ICT in Schools Programme over the past two years have been the provision of grant aid to schools to develop their computer networks and the establishment of the Schools Broadband Network and the provision of broadband access to schools. In this context, the school concerned received a networking grant of €2,200 in...