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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Under the terms of Circular 0006/2014 the supervision and substitution allowance was discontinued with effect from the commencement of the 2013/14 school year. This Circular also provided that a gross additional payment of €1,592 in lieu of the supervision and substitution allowance would be included in the Common Basic Scale for teachers in two moieties - half in the school year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department provides funding to schools towards the cost of assistive technology for pupils with physical or communicative disabilities, for educational purposes, as set out in my Department's Circular 0010/2013. Provision under the scheme is made for those pupils whose degree of disability is such that without such technological support it would not be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: In 2012, the Teaching Council took over responsibility for the induction and probationary processes for teachers. Since then, at the request of the Teaching Council, the Inspectorate of the Department of Education and Skills has operated probationary inspections arrangements for newly qualified teachers. This was agreed in order to allow the Teaching Council time to develop, trial and put...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 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 2018. A suitable site has been identified and Department officials are working to advance its acquisition. Due to the commercial sensitivities which attach to site acquisitions...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG) was established to undertake the functions set out in Section 31 of the Education Act 1998. Those functions are:- (i) to plan and co-ordinate the provision of textbooks and aids to learning and teaching through Irish, (ii) to advise the Minister on policies relating to the provision and promotion of education through the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: A sruth is a limited provision of tuition through the medium of Irish, within a parent school where English is the language of communication and teaching language of the school. My Department understands that 16 schools are operating sruthanna and the list of schools in question is outlined in the table for the Deputy’s information.  A sruth is an informal arrangement made...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school referred to applied to my Department for additional accommodation to cater for an increase in enrolments.  The long term projected staffing for this school is for a Principal plus 8 mainstream teachers and, in that regard, a major building project to provide a new 8 classroom building for the school concerned is currently on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that I am not in a position to meet representatives from individual schools in relation to these matters. The key data sources used in the DEIS identification process are the DES Primary Online Database (POD) and Post-Primary Online (PPOD) Databases, and CSO data from the National Census of Population as represented in the Pobal HP Index for Small Areas which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I recently announced the establishment of working group which will work to formulate a plan for a sustainable future of the Mayo Campus in Castlebar. The Working Group will be required to present a full report to the Higher Education Authority’s (HEA) Finance Committee in the third quarter of 2017. It will be engaging with the Local Enterprise Office, IDA Ireland and Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Equality and fairness are of course at the heart of everything this Government is trying to do, particularly in the education area where I am particularly focused on creating better opportunities for people from disadvantaged communities in our schools system and in higher education. The recent Budget contained measures to deliver on this. The public service agreements have allowed a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The project to which the Deputy refers has reached an advanced stage of architectural planning, Stage 2(b), which involves securing the statutory approvals and the preparation of tender documents. The Stage 2(b) submission has recently been submitted to my Department.  Upon review of the submission my Department will revert to the Board of Management with regard to the further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is not in receipt of a recent application from the school referred to in respect of its accommodation needs. It is open to any school to submit an application to my Department if they have identified a deficit of classroom accommodation to meet increasing enrolments or to accommodate an additional teacher appointment....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The building project for the school to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to the Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB). LCETB has advised that it is currently in the process of preparing tender documents. The project can be tendered when the preparation of the tender package has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: An application and for Assistive Technology under the terms of Circular 0010/2013 was received by my Department in relation to the individual concerned. The purpose of this scheme is to provide grant aid to schools to allow them purchase the type of specialist equipment which has been recommended by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) as being essential for pupils with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The criteria used for the allocation of teaching posts for the 2017/2018 school year is set out in the Staffing Schedule (Circular 0017/2017) which is available on the Department website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on 30 September 2016. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks Rental Scheme (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department provides funding of €16 million annually to schools to support the operation of school book rental schemes for students in all recognised primary and post-primary schools within the Free Education Scheme. The arrangements in relation to this scheme are set out in Circular 0046/2013 which is published on my Department's website. In addition, Budget 2014 provided funding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Charges (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: Based on the number of students that qualified for free fees funding in the academic year 2014/15, and taking into account overall expected increases in student numbers, it is estimated that the net cost to my Department of reducing the Student Contribution by €250 would be €17m; by €500 would be €34m; by €1,000 would be €68m; by €2,000...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Irish Government Economic & Evaluation Service (IGEES) published a Focused Policy Assessment (FPA) of Data on Special Needs Assistants in August 2016. This is available at: www.education.ie/en/Publications/Value-For-Money-Reviews/. This FPA forms part of my Department’s commitment to the Public Spending Code (PSC) and evidence informed policy making. One of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that a new Regional Support Service is presently being developed within the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) in order to assist schools in supporting children with special education needs. This service will bring under their control the Special Education Support Service (SESS), the National Behaviour Support Service (NBSS) and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Expenditure (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can inform the Deputy that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have an assessment carried out by a member of the panel of...