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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (1 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, my Department approved funding in respect of a Category 3 application, mechanical works, under the Summer Works Scheme (SWS)(2016-2017) from the school to which he refers, with the school advised of the decision through my Department's on-line Esinet portal. The school has recently submitted a request to my Department seeking to redirect the funding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Insurance Data (1 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department is guided in its consideration of the need for insurance by the stipulations of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's Public Financial Procedures guidance manual. Section C.8 (11 and 12) of the Public Financial Procedures offers guidance for all Government Department's in regard to their consideration of insurance risks and also offers general guidance that the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: As a consequence of the financial crisis, there was a need to enact a number of measures to reduce public expenditure so as to stabilise the country's public finances. A previous Government reduced the salaries and allowances payable to all new entrants to public service recruitment grades by 10% with effect from 1 January 2011. This decision also required that such new entrants would start...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (1 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Action Plan for Education includes actions to develop and publish a new Entrepreneurship Education policy statement and to develop new Entrepreneurship Education Guidelines for schools. Work is currently underway on the development of an Entrepreneurial Education Policy Statement.  It is the intention that the Policy Statement will cover the whole of the education and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (1 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the regulatory and standards body for the teaching profession. A core function of the Council is to maintain the register of teachers in the State. Under Section 30 of the Acts, teachers are required to be registered with the Council in order to receive a state funded salary. To remain on the register each teacher must...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent/CID holding teachers to schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. Circular 0074/2016 sets out the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (31 May 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 7 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: Psychological Assessments (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases receive assessment services through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have a student assessment carried...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases receive assessment services through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have a student assessment carried...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, a site acquisition process for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently underway. A suitable permanent site for the school has been identified and agreement in principle with the landowners has been reached.   The acquisition process in respect of this site is currently at the conveyancing stage and my officials are working...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As a consequence of the financial crisis, there was a need to enact a number of measures to reduce public expenditure so as to stabilise the country's public finances. A previous Government reduced the salaries and allowances payable to all new entrants to public service recruitment grades by 10% with effect from 1 January 2011. This decision also required that such new entrants would start...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: While the statutory function of appointing members of the Board of Caranua rests with the Minister for Education and Skills, the application and selection process is managed on my behalf by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) in accordance with the Guidelines on Appointments to State Board published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I can confirm that the PAS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: While the statutory function for appointing members of the Board of Caranua rests with the Minister for Education and Skills, the application and selection process is managed on my behalf by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) in accordance with the Guidelines on Appointments to State Board published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I can confirm that the Chief...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The salary scale applying to the post of Director of the Teaching Council is Principal Officer (Higher) (PPC) (€87,741-€107,410). However, the current Director is a serving civil servant on secondment to the Teaching Council from a government department, where he holds the grade of Director (Civil Service). In accordance with the secondment arrangement, the Director retains...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Teaching Council had a concern as to whether the appointment of the Director for a second term would give rise to a contract of indefinite duration. My Department clarified the contractual terms, which provide for a fixed-term contract in the context of the continuation of a secondment arrangement. Subsequently the Council reappointed the Director for a five year fixed-term from 14 May 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Reform (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: All schools will offer a well-being programme to those students  entering first year in September 2017. Well-being is built on a number of pillars, which include subjects already offered. These subjects include CSPE, PE and SPHE.  Schools have the flexibility to add other curricular subjects and initiatives to their well-being programme.   This area of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that my Department has committed, as part of the Action Plan for Education 2016-2019, to the roll-out of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme to all DEIS schools. In order to support this development and as part of the Action Plan for Education 2017 I can inform the Deputy that NEPS psychologist number will be increased by 10 staff.  In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Mental Health Strategies (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can inform the Deputy that a comprehensive review of the range of activities, which are relevant to the promotion of mental health and social emotional competence supported by my Department, has been completed. Informed by this work a DES Well-being Steering Group has been formed. This will review DES policy and provide a practice framework aligned with existing policy documents. It will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: A new Framework for Senior Cycle Physical Education (non-examinable) has recently been completed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) and approved by me. The Framework will assist schools to design a P.E. programme for those students who may not choose to take P.E. as part of their Leaving Certificate examination.  The aim of the Framework is to encourage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (31 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Caranua is an independent statutory body established under the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012. The legislation provides that €110 million in contributions from religious congregations will be made available to Caranua to help meet the needs of persons who, as children, were abused in residential institutions. Approximately €60m had been spent on services for...