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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Data (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) is particularly targeted at junior cycle (lower secondary) students who are identified as being at risk of early school leaving, perhaps without completing the Junior Certificate. The breakdown of schools offering the JCSP, by county, for the 2016/2017 school year is in the following table. There are a small number of special schools that also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Data (17 May 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.  The LCA is a two-year programme designed for those students who do not wish to proceed directly to higher education or for those whose needs, aptitudes and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy will be aware 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 through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have an assessment carried out by a member of the panel of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, a building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is included in the 6 Year Construction Programme. In that regard, my Department is in receipt of an application from the school for temporary accommodation to address its interim accommodation needs. The application is currently under consideration and a decision will be conveyed to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) are provided to assist recognised schools to cater for pupils with disabilities, who have additional and significant care needs, in an educational context and where the nature of these care needs have been outlined in medical and other professional reports as being so significant that a pupil will require additional adult assistance in order to be able to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware I ran a public consultation process from 24 January to 20 March 2017 on the role of denominational religion in the school admission process and possible approaches for making changes. The written consultation process which closed recently attracted almost 1,000 responses from a combination of individuals, schools and stakeholder organisations. A number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The well-being and safety of children should be at the centre of all policy and practices in schools. All schools must have a child protection policy that adheres to certain key principles of best practice in child protection and welfare and all schools are required to formally adopt and implement, the Department’s ‘Child Protection Procedures for Primary and Post Primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I understand that my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, has invited the Public Services Committee of ICTU to discussions on public service pay and a continued approach to the unwinding of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Teacher Allocations Section of my Department contacted 60 second-level schools in early January regarding a potential surplus staffing situation that may occur in the 2017/18 school year. The school management of these schools have provided information regarding anticipated staff changes (i.e. retirements, resignations, career breaks, job-sharing etc.) for the 2017/2018 school year. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking places in an area. The area in which the school referred to by the Deputy is located has not been identified as an area of demographic growth. It is considered that there are sufficient primary school places in the catchment area to meet pupil demand and, in that context,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the the Deputy will be aware 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 through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. Under this scheme schools can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (17 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: National Educational Psychological Service (17 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: Psychological Assessments (17 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: Psychological Assessments (17 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: Departmental Expenditure (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: For the Deputy's information, the Office of Public Works provide the premises and ancillary facilities used as Department's offices. In some cases, car parking is provided as part of these arrangements. The Department also contracts car parking facilities directly in a small number of locations as the staff require their cars for official purposes and must transfer significant materials...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Agencies Expenditure (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The information sought by the Deputy in regard to state bodies under the aegis of my Department is not routinely collated by my Department. Officials are making enquiries with its aegis bodies and will supply the information sought by the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The project to which the Deputy refers is to provide a new 350 student post primary school with an MDVI (Multiple Disability and Visual Impairment) unit, at the site of existing school building.  Planning Permission for this new school was lodged with Dublin City Council at the end of January 2017.  A decision is currently awaited from Dublin City Council on this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: My ambition is to make the Irish education and training service the best in Europe within a decade. To deliver on my ambition to be the best we have to improve information and complaint procedures for parents and students, particularly in relation to costs. I want to give parents a strong voice in ensuring costs are always kept to a minimum. I believe that we have to put a greater emphasis on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 133 to 135, inclusive, together. My Department is aware that there have been some enrolment issues in the area referred to by the Deputy, for September 2017. In that context my Department is in ongoing direct contact with primary schools in the area in respect of their junior infant capacity. As the Deputy may be aware, there are...