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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department only considers the use of Sports/PE halls or General Purpose rooms as classrooms where an immediate accommodation need arises to cater for increased enrolments or extra staffing and it is not possible to meet this need straight away. This approach may also be considered where the requirement for additional accommodation is a short-term...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The person referred to by the Deputy applied for recognition of previous EU teaching service under Circular 27/2016. She received payment including arrears for this service in the pay issue of 9th March, 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: DEIS is my Department's main policy initiative to tackle educational disadvantage. The DEIS Plan for 2017 sets out our vision for future intervention in the critical area of social inclusion in education policy. In its initial application, the new identification model has identified that there are schools in disadvantaged areas, not previously included in DEIS, whose level of disadvantage is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates SNA support to schools, in accordance with the criteria set out in my Department's Circular 0030/2014, in order that students who have special educational needs and additional care needs can access SNA support as and when it is needed. The purpose of the SNA scheme is to provide schools with additional adult support staff who can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: There are a number of legal and technical matters to be resolved pertaining to the proposal by the club referred to by the Deputy. I can confirm that officials from my Department have consulted with the school authorities in relation to the proposal and the matter is being progressed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 372 and 373 together. I take it that the Deputy is referring to the recent re-categorisation of 4 DEIS primary schools as between Urban and Rural. At the outset, it is important to note that the categorisation of a school as between urban or rural is related to its geographical position and is not related to the assessed level of concentrated...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: DEIS is my Department's main policy initiative to tackle educational disadvantage. The DEIS Plan for 2017 sets out our vision for future intervention in the critical area of social inclusion in education policy. In its initial application, the new identification model has identified that there are schools in disadvantaged areas, not previously included in DEIS, whose level of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: DEIS is my Department's main policy initiative to tackle educational disadvantage. The DEIS Plan for 2017 sets out our vision for future intervention in the critical area of social inclusion in education policy. A key element of DEIS Plan 2017 is the availability of a new identification process for the assessment of schools for inclusion in DEIS using centrally held CSO and DES data. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware from my reply of the 1st March of the key data sources considered and used in the new identification process. This is based on objective data sourced from the CSO and from the Department's POD and PPOD database, and not on research provided by schools or other bodies. Unlike previous rounds of DEIS allocation, this allocation on this occasion did not depend on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: DEIS is my Department's main policy initiative to tackle educational disadvantage. The DEIS Plan for 2017 sets out our vision for future intervention in the critical area of social inclusion in education policy. A key element of DEIS Plan 2017 is the availability of a new identification process for the assessment of schools for inclusion in DEIS using centrally held CSO and DES data. The key...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 378 and 381 together. The individual to whom the Deputy refers is a primary school teacher in a recognised primary school and is a member of the Primary School Teachers Pension Scheme 2009. In accordance with the terms of that superannuation scheme it is not possible to remain in pensionable service beyond the end of the school year in which she...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, 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 supports, including SNA support. As the question previously raised by the Deputy related to an application...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually on the website of the Department of Education and Skills. 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 the previous 30 September. Staffing arrangements for the 2017/18...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department issued Circulars 23/2015 and 24/2015 on the 27th March 2015, on foot of the report presented by Peter Ward SC. These Circulars set out the detailed arrangements and procedures for the implementation of the recommendations of the Expert Group on Fixed-Term and Part-Time Employment in Primary and Second Level Education in Ireland which was chaired by Mr. Ward. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates SNA support to schools, in accordance with the criteria set out in my Department's Circular 0030/2014, in order that students who have special educational needs and additional care needs can access SNA support as and when it is needed. The purpose of the SNA scheme is to provide schools with additional adult support staff who can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: DEIS is my Department's main policy initiative to tackle educational disadvantage. The DEIS Plan for 2017 sets out our vision for future intervention in the critical area of social inclusion in education policy. A key element of DEIS Plan 2017 is the availability of a new identification process for the assessment of schools for inclusion in DEIS using centrally held CSO and DES data. The key...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: It has been the policy of my Department for some time that only qualified and registered teachers should be employed by schools. This is set out in Circular Letters 31/2011 and 0025/2013. Current recruitment procedures require schools to ensure that teachers proposed for appointment to publicly paid posts must be registered with the Teaching Council and have qualifications appropriate to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: There are no employees from my Department or from bodies under the aegis of my Department currently suspended from work without prejudice and on full pay pending investigation.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Costs (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The amounts spent by my department on legal advice for each year since 2015 are as follows: 2015 Conor Feeney, Barrister at Law Junior Counsel €13,591.50 2016 Conor Feeney, Barrister at Law Junior Counsel €16,236 McCann Fitzgerald, Solicitors €1,476 2017 Aoife Carroll, Barrister at Law Junior Counsel €1,230.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 389 to 392, inclusive, together. The Education Welfare Act 2000 requires all schools to have in a place a Code of Behaviour. The Act requires that a school Code of Behaviour shall, inter alia, specify the standards of behaviour that shall be observed by each student attending the school, the measures that may be taken when a student fails or refuses to...