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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Digital Strategy for Schools (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Digital Strategy for Schools 2015-2020 Enhancing Teaching Learning and Assessment, sets out the Department's vision for embedding ICT in teaching learning and assessment in primary and post-primary schools. The Strategy recognises the issues schools face in relation to ICT infrastructure, and funding of €210m is committed to address these requirements over the period of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The 2016-2021 Capital Plan provided direct Exchequer investment of €110m for the higher education sector, in addition to an existing allocation for the consolidation of the DIT campus at Grangegorman. €21.5m of the €110m available for higher education under the Capital Plan was provided for disbursement in 2016. Following a reallocation of funding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding Data (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The funding provided to my Department's research subhead in 2017 is €40.6 million and funds the work of the Irish Research Council (predominantly funding PhDs students and Post-Doctoral researchers), HEAnet and the Irish Centre for High End Computing. This is an increase of €3 million in the annual allocation to the subhead for the years 2013 to 2016. The Programme for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The consolidation of the DIT campus at Grangegorman represents a flagship infrastructural project for the higher education sector in Ireland. Total funding of €90.7m has been allocated towards the project, of which €40m was specifically included in the current Capital Plan.  To date, the capital funding allocated towards the project by the Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships Data (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: In late 2016, the Higher Education Authority (HEA) commenced a consultation process to update and consolidate the information available in relation to priority capital projects in higher education institutions (HEIs). The process also provided HEIs with the opportunity to identify those projects which they wished to put forward for consideration as part of the forthcoming higher education PPP...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The project to which the Deputy refers commenced construction in July 2016 and is scheduled for completion in early 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Libraries (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The library project referred to is the Junior Cycle Schools Programme (JCSP) Demonstration Library Project. My Department is not currently accepting any new applications for the JCSP. The JCSP will be subject to a review at a future date when a substantial proportion of the new Framework for Junior Cycle is in place.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has recently submitted an application to my Department for significant capital funding for additional school accommodation. The application will be considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority as soon as the assessment process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Travel (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: St. Patrick’s Day offers a unique opportunity to promote Ireland’s economic and political interests overseas, with levels of publicity and media attention unmatched by the national day of any other country. Ministerial visits around this period are organised to ensure that we use this exposure to maximise the promotion of Ireland’s trade, tourism and investment interests...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (13 Apr 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. The processing of individual applications is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Caranua is an independent statutory body established under the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012. The legislation provides that €110 million in contributions from religious congregations will be made available to Caranua to help meet the needs of persons who, as children, were abused in residential institutions. To date some €97.3 million, comprising contributions...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Teaching Council is, since 2006, the body with statutory authority and responsibility for the registration of teachers in this State. Accordingly, a person with a query concerning his/her application for registration as a teacher should contact the Teaching Council directly in the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware I ran a public consultation process from 24th January to 20th March 2017 on the role of denominational religion in the school admission process and possible approaches for making changes. The 8 week phase of receiving written submissions formed part of the broader 12 week consultation process which will include additional steps, including any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (13 Apr 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. A surplus teacher situation arises when a school  has in its...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware I ran a public consultation process from 24th January to 20th March 2017 on the role of denominational religion in the school admission process and possible approaches for making changes. The 8 week phase of receiving written submissions formed part of the broader 12 week consultation process which will include additional steps, including any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Purpose of July Provision Programme Grant Scheme is to provide funding towards an extended school year for children with a severe or profound general learning disability or children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Where eligible students cannot be accommodated in a school based programme, funding may be provided towards the provision of 40 hours home based tuition. As home based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The new post-primary school for Swords is due to open in 2017 under the patronage of Dublin & Dun Laoghaire ETB.  As the Deputy may be aware, the building project for this new post-primary school is included on my Department’s six year construction programme.  My Department has worked closely with Fingal County Council in respect of this and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support is provided specifically to assist recognised primary, post primary and special schools to cater for the care needs of pupils with disabilities in an educational context, where the nature of these care needs have been outlined in professional reports as being so significant that a pupil will require adult assistance in order to be able to attend school...