Results 13,101-13,120 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware of my Department's commitment to ensuring that all children, including those with autism, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs in school settings. This facilitates access to individualised education programmes, fully qualified professional teachers, special needs assistants and the appropriate school curriculum with the option, in line with each...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: FÃS will deliver at least 90,000 training places for the unemployed in 2011. When compared to the number of FÃS training places delivered in 2010 this is a reduction of 24,000 places. This reduction occurred because of the following reasons; o FÃS budget for training the unemployed was reduced by â¬37 million in Budget 2011, o FÃS will be providing more courses of longer duration in...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: Redundancy arrangements for Special Needs Assistants and the selection criteria for redundancy are set out in circular 58/2006. A redundancy situation may arise in a school when the special needs allocation is reduced by the NCSE. It is then the responsibility of the Management Authority of the school, who is the employer of Special Needs Assistants in the school, to ensure that the special...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: This is an operational matter for FÃS and as such, I have no function in this matter.
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: In recognition that the withdrawal of Resource Teacher for Traveller posts/teaching hours may have an initial impact on schools, limited adjustment or alleviation measures are being provided to assist schools that have high concentrations of Traveller pupils who were previously supported by Resource Teachers for Travellers. In respect of DEIS, (Developing Equality of Opportunity in Schools),...
- Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: My Department is currently working with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to prepare legislation which will give effect to the previous Government's decision to amalgamate the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI), the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) and the Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC). Drafting of the legislation is at an...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: Officials from my Department wrote directly to the principal of the school on 19th April 2011 in order to address the issues raised in parliamentary question 108 of 29 March 2011. A copy of the correspondence will be sent to the Deputy for information.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that in light of the current competing demands on the capital budget and due to the scale of demand for funding under the 2011 Summer Works scheme, unfortunately it was not possible to grant aid all applications. Applications for works in the higher categories of eligible works were prioritised and on this occasion, only applications for works in Categories, 1, 2...
- Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy may be aware, the recognition of qualifications for teacher registration is now a matter for the Teaching Council, the body with statutory responsibility for establishing and maintaining standards in the teaching profession in the State. Accordingly, I am sure you will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to intervene in individual cases. Departmental Circular CL...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating resource teachers and SNAs to schools to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. This now includes a requirement for the...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating resource teachers and SNAs to schools to support children with special educational needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. This now includes a requirement for the...
- Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: It is open to the patron of the centre referred to by the Deputy to make application under Section 10 of the Education Act 1998 seeking formal recognition as a school. Such an application would have to be considered under the terms of the provisions of Section 10 of the Act.
- Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at an early stage of architectural planning. Officials from the Planning Building Unit of my Department met with the school and it's Design Team in March, following which, the Stage 1 submission which incorporates Preliminary Design is now awaited. The next stages for the project will be the completion of stage 2(a) -...
- Written Answers — Skills Development: Skills Development (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: The main policy framework within which the upskilling agenda takes place is the National Skills Strategy published by the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) in 2007. The National Skills Strategy proposes a vision of Ireland in 2020 in which a well-educated and highly skilled population contributes optimally to a competitive, innovation-driven, knowledge-based, participative and...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 82 and 83 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) are allocated to schools to enable them support pupils with an assessed special educational need who also have a significant medical need or a significant impairment of physical or sensory impairment. Students with an assessed special educational need who present with...
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: While the decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter for a student's local grant awarding body, my Department understands that a delay has arisen in processing the grant application from the student to which the Deputy refers for two reasons. First, the application was submitted late and, second, the application was incomplete as it was not accompanied by any of the necessary...
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: The Institute of International & European Affairs (IIEA) was founded in 1991. It is a policy research think-tank and forum on EU affairs based in Dublin. It provides members with information on impending EU policy developments and in-depth analysis of their implications for Ireland and Europe. My Department is a corporate member, as are several Departments. The only financial supports...
- Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy is well aware that a DEIS school, in contrast to a regular primary or post-primary school, receives additional resources for the very reasons outlined, namely, the socio-economic background of the pupils, the lack of resources among parents that could otherwise be made available through a PTA in a middle-class or non-DEIS school. The difference between what the Deputy proposes and...
- Vocational Education Committees (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 9 and 11 together. County Louth VEC has informed my Department that it projects an increased enrolment of 216 students in September 2011. My Department has therefore given provisional approval for an additional 11 teaching posts, which will be subject to confirmation of the actual enrolment in September. All vacancies and any additional teaching posts...
- Vocational Education Committees (4 May 2011)
Ruairi Quinn: I am informed that the original estimation of the savings that might be obtained is of the order of â¬3 million. I hope that when we get into the detail of the amalgamation the savings will be even greater. The configuration and structure of the VECs reflect an Ireland that no longer exists in terms of transport, access and communications and there is a wide discrepancy in the scale and...