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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Stay Safe Programme (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST) has responsibility for supporting the implementation of the revised and updated Stay Safe Programme. The Stay Safe Programme was developed by a group called the Child Abuse Prevention Programme and a framework of CPD support is currently being rolled out. The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework which PDST has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 161 and 181 together. My Department provides capitation funding to all recognised primary schools. The amount of grant paid to an individual primary school for capitation and ancillary services is determined by the school’s enrolment, subject to a minimum grant for both capitation and ancillary services in respect of schools with enrolments up...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in Table B.It should be noted that the Department's policy is to provide additional supports to pupils on the basis of identified need not on the basis that the child is a Traveller.  Since 2013/14 the additional mainstream resources that have gone into the system to the benefit of all children including Traveller children...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: It is my Department's intention to relocate the school referred to by the Deputy to their proposed new location as their long-term permanent accommodation. The new proposed building will, however, require significant remediation works and my Department will be in further contact with the Patron on this matter. In the interim, the school has been advised to extend the lease at its...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department allocates the recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions including Institutes of Technology (IoTs) such as Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of funding is then a matter for the individual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Grievance Procedures (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Under the Education Act 1998 the school Board of Management (BOM) is the body charged with the direct governance of a school, and it is the BOM which employs the staff at the school. Accordingly, whereas my Department provides funding and policy direction for schools, my Department does not have the power to instruct schools to follow a particular course of direction with regard to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Reform (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I am taking it that the Deputy is referring to the junior cycle curriculum for Irish. With effect from September 2017, junior cycle provision for Irish in post-primary schools and settings will comprise two new specifications (syllabuses). The L1 (Language 1, in Irish, Teanga 1) specification is targeted at students in Irish-medium schools and students in English-medium schools who learn...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 168 and 169 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that the matters raised are appropriate to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport which provided funding for the establishment of the gym and sports hall concerned. I also wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is not in receipt of an application from the school referred to for the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers was granted funding under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme 2013, and I am pleased to inform the Deputy that in recent days formal permission has been given to the school authority to proceed with re-tendering this project. My Department has also recently granted approval in principle to rent temporary accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 to 173, inclusive, 175 and 186 together. I wish to clarify for the Deputies that the school in question is not closing. Any discussion to close a school requires consultation between the various Stakeholders, including parents, members of staff and their representative organisations as well as the Board of Management. I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 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 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of a Category 10 application, external environment project, under the Summer Works Scheme (2016-2017) from the school to which he refers. Nearly 50% of schools have applied for inclusion under the Scheme which reflects a very high demand. Details of successful school applicants in respect of Categories 1 to 6 are published on my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (16 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: School Accommodation Provision (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 179 and 180 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no record of receiving any communication from the school in question relating to a new physical access to the school. With regard to the Deputy's question relating to the school's request to expand to a 16 classroom school, I wish to inform him that I recently met with school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The requested information in respect of my Department and agencies under the aegis of my Department is set out in the following tabular statement. Organisation Grade/Job Description No.’s earning in excess of €125,000 per annum Department of Education and Skills Secretary General 1 Deputy Secretary General 1 Assistant Secretary General 6 Chief Inspector 1 State...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Colleges (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that a building project for the facility to which he refers was included in my Department's 6 Year Capital Programme. The delivery of a building project necessitates the acquisition of a suitable site and this process is currently in train. 

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Equality and fairness are of course at the heart of everything this Government is trying to do, particularly in the education area where I am particularly focused on creating better opportunities for people from disadvantaged communities in our schools system and in higher education. The recent Budget contained measures to deliver on this. The public service agreements have allowed a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: A total of 239 large scale projects were completed over the five year period 2012 to 2016. These large scale projects comprise 141 new schools and 98 large scale extensions. The 239 completions include 124 large scale projects that are in the ownership of the State (including PPP schools for which special licensing arrangements are in place). The remaining 115 large scale projects were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department is aware of Caranua’s need to source alternative office premises and has had discussions with it in that regard. However, as I noted in my previous reply it is Caranua’s responsibility to procure its own accommodation and meet any related expenses. A request for ministerial consent in relation to aspects of Caranua’s relocation to new office premises is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (16 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: No payment has been made by my Department to Bord na gCon at this point. The current status is that a formal offer of €23million has been made, and accepted by Bord na gCon. The matter is subject to contract and the acquisition will be subject to the satisfactory completion of the conveyancing process. The sale is subject to the standard approvals required...