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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (4 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, a project for the school in question was included in the Department's 6 Year Capital Programme announced in November 2015. My Department is currently finalising the project brief and once this process is complete, my Department will be in further contact with the school. The project will be progressed into the architectural planning process when the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (4 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The amendment of the current stay back permission to which the Deputy refers, has been agreed in principle by officials in both my Department and officials in the Department of Justice and Equality. It is my understanding that the finer details of the scheme are being finalised, to ensure clarity to those who will seek admission to it, and will be published by the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (4 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: In the aftermath of the publication of the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Religious Sisters of Charity and other congregations who had managed residential institutions, offered additional voluntary contributions of cash and property towards the cost of the response to child abuse. The Congregation offered an additional voluntary cash contribution of €5m,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (4 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in the area. Parents can choose which school to apply to and where the school has places available, the pupil should be admitted. However, in schools where there are more applicants than places available, a selection...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (4 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) are provided specifically 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Arts in Education Charter (4 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Arts in Education Charter, launched in 2013, has been a landmark development. The Charter is an initiative of my Department, the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, working in association with the Arts Council.  Good progress has been made on implementation of the Charter objectives to date in relation to the use of school facilities and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (4 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of surplus permanent and CID holding teachers to other schools where vacancies exist. The redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (4 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: A Qualification Allowance in respect of a Pass Primary Degree is paid to 3,739 Voluntary Secondary and Community and Comprehensive schools teachers.  The current position regarding the payment of qualification allowances is outlined in Circular 8/2013 which can be accessed on my Department website.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I have to advise the Deputies to table a parliamentary question on the matter as I am not in a position to answer their questions on it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I understand that after many years when nothing was done in this area, a substantial increase in the commitment to capital funding has been made. More money has been spent in undertaking flood relief in recent years than had been spent for many years.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I understand that over 300 locations where strategic plans need to be put in place have been identified.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Those plans have to be developed with input from the community and the local authorities. There is a commitment to address this in a systematic way. Such a plan was not there in the past.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy has been around here nearly as long as I have. Over that time, it has been common knowledge that one cannot table amendments or legislation if that results in a charge on the people or-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Clearly, there is a requirement for some signal to the Dáil for that to happen.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As far as I know, this convention has been in Standing Orders for years.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: It is not a new innovation.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: It has always been a requirement before legislation proceeds to Committee Stage. It is a long-standing requirement in this House. Deputy O'Dea has been around for almost as long as I have. He should know about the-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I understand that the issue is deciding on the final place where such records will be retained. Some work has had to be done to identify where the records will be stored but I will communicate further with Deputy O'Sullivan in due course.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will appreciate that there is huge pressure on the education capital budget because we have to accommodate 15,000 new school places every year as well as providing 5,000 necessary replacements. That leaves resources constrained. It means that we must decide, relatively late on, what will be available for the summer works scheme. Clearly, we try to maximise the available money...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I am sure that the Minister will subject the case put forward to appropriate consideration and scrutiny.