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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: This Government is committed to ensuring that all children with Special Educational Needs, including those with autism, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. Such placements facilitate access to individualised education programmes which may draw from a range of appropriate educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Staff (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides an educational psychological service to schools through the direct assignment of a NEPS psychologist and in some cases through by providing schools access to the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA) where schools can have an assessment carried out by a member...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department’s policy is to ensure that every child who is assessed as needing SNA support will receive access to such support.  The National Council for Special Education (NCSE), which is an independent statutory agency, is responsible, through its network of Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for processing applications from schools for special educational needs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Officials in my Department are working closely with officials from the relevant local authority in relation to the potential temporary accommodation of the amenity to which the Deputy refers on land in my ownership. The proposal is subject to a number of technical and legal considerations but my Department will endeavor to facilitate the local authority in this respect if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Data (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The religious congregation referred to in the Deputy’s question was one of 18 that was a party with the State to the 2002 Indemnity Agreement. That Agreement provided for a collective contribution of €128 million in cash, counselling and property. I understand that the transfer of one property offered by this Congregation, the Sacred Heart Centre, Waterford, remains to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Caranua, the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to oversee the use of the cash contributions of up to €110 million, pledged by the religious congregations, to support the needs of survivors of institutional child abuse. As an independent body Caranua is responsible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of a Category 3 application, Mechanical Upgrade 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 Categories 1 and 2 were announced in April last year and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: SUSI has progressively introduced a number of measures that are intended to make the Student Grant Scheme more efficient for students. One of these measures is the introduction of Eircode which has helped to reduce processing times for applicants. However, the actual calculation of distance from a student's home to college has not changed from previous years, and SUSI continues to use google...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Budget 2016 provided 250 posts to second level schools to enable Deputy Principals to be more fully available to assist the school principal with the leadership of the school. At primary level, Budget 2016 provided for additional release days for teaching principals to range between 15 and 25 days depending on the size of the school. Budget 2017 provided for an additional €7.75m...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. The GIS uses data from a range of sources including; - the Central Statistics Office, - Ordnance Survey Ireland, - Child Benefit Data from the Department of Social Protection, and - Enrolment data/available capacity of existing schools from my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, the Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas. The North Dublin area covers a number of school planning areas including: - Beaumont/Coolock/Dublin5 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Section 9(b) of the Education Act 1998 requires schools to provide the curriculum as prescribed by my Department. Currently, that includes the requirement to provide a Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) programme for all students. The RSE programme is delivered in the context of Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) for students from primary to the end of Junior Cycle....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Extra Curricular Activities (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Decisions in relation to visitors to schools are taken at a school level.  Circular 0023/2010 of the Department of Education and Skills sets out the criteria which must apply if schools wish to enhance or supplement Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) by inviting visitors to the classroom.   The relevant rules are summarised as follows: - Visitors to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Suicide Prevention (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Ensuring the mental and emotional wellbeing of students is a major priority of mine as Minister. My Department adopts a holistic and integrated approach to supporting the work of schools in promoting positive mental health and to supporting those with the broad range of problems, behavioural emotional and social. The processes span the curriculum in schools, whole-school ethos,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Suicide Prevention (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: Ensuring the mental and emotional wellbeing of students is a major priority of mine as Minister. My Department adopts a holistic and integrated approach to supporting the work of schools in promoting positive mental health and to supporting those with the broad range of problems, behavioural emotional and social. The processes span the curriculum in schools, whole-school ethos, quality...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Action Plan for Education 2016-2019 outlines hundreds of actions to be implemented over the 3 year period 2016 to 2019 which include restoring capitation funding as resources permit.  Budget 2017 represents the start of a major programme of reinvestment in education, and the first phase of implementation of the Action Plan for Education, aimed at becoming the best education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Department of Education and Skills, acts as a payroll agent on behalf of the parent/legal guardian for the payment of the home tuition grant schemes. Such payments are made directly to the approved tutor via the non-teaching staff payroll of this Department. There are currently three rates of payment for teachers registered with the teaching council: a rate for qualified primary teachers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The purpose of the Home Tuition Grant Scheme is to provide funding towards the provision of a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend school. The scheme also provides a compensatory educational service for children with special educational needs seeking an educational placement. Provision is also made for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (2 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: Education and Training Boards Administration (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Internal Audit Unit for the ETBs (IAU-ETBs) is based in Cavan and Monaghan ETB for employer and administration purposes. The staffing complement has comprised of a Director and three internal auditors who report to the Director. A recruitment process is currently underway to fill three vacancies at internal auditor level, as well as to...