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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Service Provision (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Digital Strategy for Schools 2015-2020 Enhancing Teaching Learning and Assessment, published in October 2015, sets out the Department's vision for embedding ICT in teaching learning and assessment in primary and post-primary schools. Implementation of the programme of work under this Strategy is now underway, with a key priority being the broadband connectivity issues experienced by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The 20 year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010 -2030 contains a number of actions relating to initial teacher education (ITE) including the introduction of a new specialisation in Irish-medium primary teaching and a new Irish-medium post primary post graduate ITE programme, changes to the Gaeltacht placement and the retention of up to 20% of places on primary ITE programmes for students of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, the ICT in Schools Programme addresses four broad areas, namely: - the provision of essential ICT infrastructure and networking within schools - continuous professional development in ICT for teachers - integrating ICT within the curriculum and providing curriculum relevant digital content and software. - the provision of access to broadband connectivity to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Funding (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA institutions. The HEA allocates this as a block grant to institutions to cover teaching, research and supporting activities. The internal allocation of this grant is a matter for each institution. Higher education institutions are autonomous institutions and my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department allocated funding over the past 10 years for third level research and development. The details of the funding per year over the last 10 years are as follows: - 2017 - €40.6m (provision) - 2016 - €37.6m - 2015 - €37.6m - 2014 - €37.6m - 2013 - €37.6m - 2012 - €37.6m - 2011 - €38.5m - 2010 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Funding (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Strategic Innovation Fund was established in 2006 with the emphasis on promoting inter-institutional collaboration in bringing about substantial change, reform and quality improvement within the Irish higher education system. The Fund supported a wide range of projects aimed at supporting institutional restructuring, enhancing teaching and learning, enabling post graduate education and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that capital assets do not form part of the means assessment for a SUSI grant and as such, SUSI does not collect data on the capital assets of the persons whose income forms part of the means assessment. It is therefore difficult to accurately cost the Deputy’s proposals.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The information sought by the Deputy is provided in the following table: CAPITAL EXPENDITURE JANUARY TO DECEMBER 2016 AND JANUARY TO 31 MARCH 2017 (identified under specific headings) - 2016 2017 SUB-PROGRAMMES TOTAL Jan - Mar (€m) (€m) LARGE SCALE PROJECTS 334.046 64.545 SITE PURCHASES 31.634 6.732 ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION 75.176 17.576 PREFAB...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Under the Student Grant Scheme, grant assistance is available to eligible students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the terms and conditions of funding, including those relating to residency, means, nationality and previous academic attainment.  All applications are assessed with reference to the terms and conditions of the relevant student grant scheme. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department is very supportive of better quality infrastructure for schools and further education and training provision and/or Head Office moves where such developments have the potential to facilitate overall savings or clear strategic benefits. However, this must be considered within the constraints of the many competing demands on my Department’s capital budget. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: On 28 November, 2016 applications were invited for the patronage of four new primary schools to be established in 2017 and 2018, including the school to serve the Dún Laoghaire school planning area.  A total of 14 applications for patronage of the four new schools were received and are currently being assessed by my Department.  The assessment process is detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The SNA scheme provides recognised schools with additional adult support staff 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 and to participate in education and also to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm to you Deputy that a project for the school in question was included in the Department's 6 Year Capital Programme announced in November 2015 to proceed to the tender and construction stages in 2019 - 2021. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (12 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: Legislative Measures (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Under the provisions of the Education Act 1998 the Board of Management is responsible for the governance of a school. Accordingly, the Board is responsible for ensuring that it has in place appropriate policies and practices to deal with the school’s day to day activities.  A school’s policy or practice in relation to managing instances where a pupil may require a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 178 and 179 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7 March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of the new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation model replaces the generalised allocation process at primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Early Start programme is located in 40 DEIS schools in areas of urban disadvantage.  A full list of centres and their location is attached.  In the intervening period since the establishment of Early Start which offered children the opportunity to attend a pre-school year, a universal pre-school scheme, the ECCE programme was established in 2010, which is funded, administered...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Education in relation to areas such as awareness of LGBT issues is provided in an age-appropriate manner at both primary and post-primary level, through the subject Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE).  At post primary level, all schools are required to provide a Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) programme as part of SPHE for all students from First...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: As I have previously informed the Deputy, the key data sources are the DES Primary Online Database (POD) and Post-Primary Online (PPOD) Databases as populated by schools and the CSO Small Area of Population (SAP) data from the National Census of Population 2011 as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation Index (HP Index). Variables used in the compilation of the HP Index...

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to this debate. This is a very serious debate for anyone who is in politics as long as I am. I entered politics with what was probably a very naive faith in the whole way in which An Garda Síochána was run. Over this long period many people's faith in that has been shaken. What we have decided today in government is really important,...