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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) programme is one of a number of options made available by my Department for Senior Cycle students which schools can choose from, based on the education needs and interests of their student.   It is the responsibility and choice of each individual school to decide to put in place the LCA programme, based on the educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I assume that the Deputy is referring to the transition of English-medium schools to Irish-medium schools in the context of the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme.  Under the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme, which is a key component of my Department’s Policy on Gaeltacht Education 2017-2022, schools located in Gaeltacht language-planning areas can apply to seek recognition as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Expulsions (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The position is my Department does not hold statistics for individual counties for section 29 appeals, this protects the privacy of individuals taking appeals on behalf of their children.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Caranua is an independent statutory body established under the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to oversee the use of cash contributions of up to €110 million, pledged by religious congregations, to support the needs of survivors of institutional child abuse. The legislation provides that supports may be available in the areas of health and personal social services,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Career Breaks (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: In the 2016/17 school year there are one thousand five hundred and seventy teachers in primary schools availing of the career break scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: SUSI operates a comprehensive set of processes and controls to manage the assessment process and to minimise the risk of incorrectly awarding grants. However, the nature of the assessment process undertaken by SUSI means that there is a risk that some students may be awarded maintenance grants and/or fee grants for which they are not eligible. Where overpayments do occur, SUSI treats the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The core function of the redeployment arrangements at Primary level is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus full-time permanent/CID holding teachers to schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent/CID holding teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers.  Thereafter, vacancies...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Contracts (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7th March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of the new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation model replaces the generalised allocation process at primary and post primary school level for learning support...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Where a requirement for additional schools has been identified, details including proposed timelines related to the opening of the schools, are made known by a Ministerial announcement following which a patronage assessment process is carried out to determine who will operate such schools. As the Deputy may be aware, the Irish Greyhound Board has accepted an offer of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Speech and Language Therapy Services are under the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Health and the service is provided by the Health Service Executive (HSE).  The Programme for a Partnership Government includes a commitment to introduce a new in-school Speech and Language Therapy service, creating stronger linkages between parents, teachers and Speech and Language...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware the project in respect of the education campus in Buncrana is included on my Department's capital programme. At the recent meeting with the Council the preferred site option was confirmed and the next steps to progress an acquisition were identified and initiated.  In that context, officials from the Council, on behalf of my Department, have engaged...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: On 1 July 2013 the 33 Vocational Education Committees (VECs) were dissolved and replaced with 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs). My Department is responsible for the disbursement of pay and non-pay grants to each of the 16 ETBs in respect of a range of school and non-school based services.   Details of funding provided by my Department to the ETB Sector for the period 2009 to 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: In 2013, when the project was originally approved, the estimated cost of the construction of the Confucius Institute building in Belfield was in the region of €7 million.  However, UCD has advised that costs have increased over the period since then. In 2014, the Department of Education and Skills confirmed an allocation of €3 million for the construction of the Confucius...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Higher education institutions have primary responsibility for the quality of their provision and its assurance. UCD have established their own quality assurance procedures, having had regard to QQI Guidelines. In addition to encompassing regular periodic reviews of study programmes, UCD is also encouraged to undertake quality reviews of academic, administrative and service departments and,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: As outlined in Ireland's International Education Strategy Government policy for the international education sector is the International Education Mark (IEM).  The IEM will be managed by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), the national agency with responsibility for external quality assurance and qualifications across the further and higher education sectors.  The development...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, the Irish Greyhound Board has accepted an offer of €23m made by my Department for the acquisition of the Harold's Cross Greyhound Stadium property. The acquisition is subject to contract and a change in the zoning for the property in order to facilitate school development. The offer to acquire the site was made in the context of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department provided a purpose built 12 classroom building for the school in question in 2008. The expected life span of this school building is in excess of 25 to 30 years. I also wish to clarify for the Deputy that my Department has not given a commitment to provide a replacement school building. I met with representatives of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Contracts (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7th March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of the new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation model replaces the generalised allocation process at primary and post primary school level for learning support...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7th March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of the new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation process replaces the generalised allocation process at primary and post primary school level for learning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7th March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of the new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation process replaces the generalised allocation process at primary and post primary school level for learning...