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Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The average class size in the school referred to by the Deputy for the 2005/06 school year is 27.2. Major improvements have been made in primary school staffing in recent years. Next September there will no less than 4000 extra teachers in our primary schools, compared with 2002. Not only is the average class size in our primary schools down to 24, but there is now one teacher for 17 pupils...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The average class size in the school referred to by the Deputy for the 2005/06 school year is 26.3. Major improvements have been made in primary school staffing in recent years. Next September there will no less than 4000 extra teachers in our primary schools, compared with 2002. Not only is the average class size in our primary schools down to 24, but there is now one teacher for 17 pupils...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: There are 16 classes of 30 or more children in the school referred to by the Deputy in the current school year. Major improvements have been made in primary school staffing in recent years. Next September there will no less than 4000 extra teachers in our primary schools, compared with 2002. Not only is the average class size in our primary schools down to 24, but there is now one teacher for...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: There are 3 classes of 30 or more children in the school referred to by the Deputy in the current school year. Major improvements have been made in primary school staffing in recent years. Next September there will no less than 4000 extra teachers in our primary schools, compared with 2002. Not only is the average class size in our primary schools down to 24, but there is now one teacher for...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: There is 1 class of 30 or more children in the school referred to by the Deputy in the current school year. Major improvements have been made in primary school staffing in recent years. Next September there will no less than 4000 extra teachers in our primary schools, compared with 2002. Not only is the average class size in our primary schools down to 24, but there is now one teacher for 17...

Written Answers — Educational Projects: Educational Projects (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I wish to assure the Deputy that no school has been told that they are going to lose any of the resources that they have been receiving under existing schemes for tackling disadvantage as a result of the introduction of the new DEIS initiative. On the contrary, the new School Support Programme is aimed at providing even more extra resources for the most disadvantaged schools in the country....

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 379, 380, 405, 407 and 408 together. The Deputies will be aware of the significant initiative for allocating resource teachers that I introduced in primary schools in September 2005. The new scheme allocates resource teachers to schools to cater for the needs of children with high-incidence special educational needs, such as dyslexia and those children with...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Primary school pupils with special educational needs are allocated between 3 and 5 support teaching hours per week. Once a school or cluster of schools acquires 22 additional resource teaching hours, a full-time resource teacher may be recruited. A full-time resource teacher is expected to teach for up to 25 hours per week. On this basis resource teachers would typically have between 5 and 8...

Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The next step in the proposed amalgamation of the two schools, to which the Deputy refers, is for a technical assessment to be carried out on existing buildings to determine which, if any, would be suitable to act as a host for the new school. The Deputy will be aware that on 13 January last, I outlined details of 62 schools which are being given the go ahead to proceed with major capital...

Written Answers — Education Schemes: Education Schemes (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 383 and 384 together. Tackling educational disadvantage is one of my main priorities and the new plan for educational inclusion, DEIS ( Delivering Equality of Opportunities in Schools) aims to ensure that the educational needs of children and young people, from pre-school to completion of upper second-level education (3 to 18 years), from disadvantaged...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: In April this year I took a decision to grant recognition to a new primary school for the Dublin 15 area, with effect from this coming September under the Patronage of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. The rate and pace of development in this area is unprecedented and this decision was taken to ensure that we have sufficient educational infrastructure in place to cater for the ever...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: As part of the expansion of the devolved scheme for primary school building works, a grant of €275,000 was sanctioned in March 2006 to enable the management authorities of the school in question to extend and refurbish their school. Devolving funding to school management authorities allows them to have control of their projects, assists in moving projects more quickly to tender and...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The School Planning Section of my Department is in receipt of an application for major capital works from the management authority of the school to which the Deputy refers. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale projects and was assigned a Band 2 rating. Progress on the proposed works is being considered in the context of the...

Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: My Department provides funding towards the cost of secretarial services in primary schools under two separate schemes. One is the 1978 scheme under which my Department meets the full cost of salary. These secretaries are paid directly through my Department's payroll. The 1978 scheme is being phased out and no new posts are being created under the scheme. The new Ancillary Services Grant...

Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Under the terms of the Free Fees Initiative the Exchequer meets the tuition fees of students who are first-time undergraduates and hold EU nationality or official refugee status and have been ordinarily resident in an EU Member State for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level course. It is a matter for each institution to determine students...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: All primary and post primary schools have access to psychological assessments either directly through my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) or through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA) that is administered by NEPS and full details of which are available on my Department's website. NEPS does not keep waiting lists for assessments of...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: It is open to all parents to approach schools with a view to enrolling their children, including those with special educational needs. A specific function of the National Council for Special Education, through its network of local special educational needs organisers (SENOs), is to identify appropriate educational placements for all children with special educational needs. The SENO is a focal...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: There is one postprimary school in Rathcoole, Holy Family Community School and enrolment details since 2000 are as follows: 2000 711 2001 689 2002 678 2003 662 2004 676 2005 661 Details regarding the projected pupils numbers for this school are not available in my Department. However, future needs in the area will be assessed in the light of an application from the Holy...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: There are four Post-Primary providers in the Clondalkin area namely, Coláiste Bríde, Moyle Park College, Collinstown Park Community College and Deansrath Community College. Details of enrolments at these schools since 2000 are as follows. 2000 2,747 2001 2,673 2002 2,568 2003 2,579 2004 2,538 2005 2,509 Figures for projected enrolments in Clondalkin are not held in my...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (13 Jun 2006)

Mary Hanafin: There is no Post-Primary provision in Newcastle. Students from this area attend secondary school in the neighbouring areas of Rathcoole, Lucan and Clondalkin.