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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The recommendation in the Commission on School Accommodation's report states that two additional rooms should be provided at the school in question in the period 2005-09. The school's application for capital funding is being considered for inclusion in the schools building and modernisation programme in this context.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: First, I would like to clarify that the correspondence referred to by the Deputy relates to special needs assistant, SNA, support in respect of a pupil with special educational needs and not to resource hours. As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, which has been operational since 1 January 2005, is responsible for processing applications for special...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The assembling of the information sought by the Deputy is near completion and will be forwarded shortly.

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: DEIS — delivering equality of opportunity in schools — the new action plan for educational inclusion, provides for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and a new integrated school support programme, SSP. The process of identifying primary and second-level schools for participation in the new school support programme under DEIS has been completed. This process was...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: DEIS — delivering equality of opportunity in schools — the new action plan for educational inclusion, provides for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and a new integrated school support programme, SSP. The school support programme will bring together, and build upon, a number of existing interventions in schools with a concentrated level of disadvantage. The...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware that the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, through the local special educational needs organiser, SENO, is responsible for processing applications from schools for special needs supports such as resource teaching hours and special needs assistant, SNA, support for children with low-incidence special educational needs such as specific speech and language...

Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 506 to 508, inclusive, together. I am conscious that the Dublin 15 area as a whole is one of the most rapidly developing areas in the country and, as a result, there has been a marked increase in the demand for primary school places. My Department is taking a number of measures to increase the capacity of existing schools in the area concerned along with the...

Written Answers — Schools Provision: Schools Provision (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The predominant need in new communities is for the establishment of new primary schools for which there is an open and transparent process in place. A central element of this process is that patron bodies wishing to establish new schools must identify the level of demand for the provision of education under the ethos proposed and that potential enrolment will meet certain minimum targets. The...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy was listed among the 43 schools that I announced to start architectural planning in March of 2005. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that my Department has appointed a full design team on the project with the architectural service for this project being dealt with in-house by the school building section and, indeed, substantial work on the early stages of...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: DEIS, delivering equality of opportunity in schools, the new action plan for educational inclusion, provides for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and a new integrated school support programme, SSP. The process of identifying primary and second level schools for participation in the new school support programme has been completed. As a result of the identification...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Four urban-town primary schools, 59 rural primary schools and six post-primary schools in County Mayo have been invited to participate in the new school support programme, SSP, under DEIS, delivering equality of opportunity in schools, the new action plan for educational inclusion. Schools invited to participate in the school support programme were required to complete and return an...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department has received an application for an extension 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 building projects. Progress on the proposed works is being considered in the context of the school building and modernisation...

Written Answers — Equal Opportunities Employment: Equal Opportunities Employment (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The most recent data available on officers in my Department who have a disability indicate that there are 37 such officers, which equates to 3.03% of staff. The guidelines followed for the collection of this information are set out in the Code of Practice for the Civil Service 1994. This is in line with the Government's 3% employment target for people with disabilities, as set out in...

Written Answers — Schools Amalgamation: Schools Amalgamation (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The final details of the amalgamation process for the schools in question are currently the subject of discussions between the boards of management, the patron and the school planning section of my Department. It is anticipated that the matter will be finalised in the near future. Given the nature of this project, it is possible that a planned, phased approach will need to be adopted in order...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The process of reviewing the thresholds for eligibility and the grant levels for the 2006-07 academic year is currently ongoing. Decisions on the 2006 schemes will be announced as soon as this process is completed. The applications forms and accompanying notes for the 2006-07 will issue in the near future.

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware that, in accordance with the commitment in An Agreed Programme for Government, I plan to introduce a single unified scheme of maintenance grants for students in higher education. This will, I believe, provide for a more coherent administration system which will facilitate consistency of application and improved client accessibility and ensure the timely delivery of...

Written Answers — Religious Education: Religious Education (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Section 15 of the Education Act, 1998 requires boards of management of schools to uphold, and be accountable to the patron for upholding, the characteristic spirit of the school as determined by the cultural, educational, moral, religious, social, educational, linguistic and spiritual values and traditions which inform and are characteristic of the objectives and conduct of the school....

Written Answers — School Completion Programme: School Completion Programme (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: There are currently 82 school completion programme, SCP, sites in 21 counties — 108 post-primary schools and 302 primary schools — with 53 second level schools in the stay in school retention strand, SSR, of the school completion programme in 17 counties, targeting approximately 23,000 young people at risk of early school leaving. Under the new action plan for educational inclusion, DEIS,...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: In my reply to Question No. 583 of 14 February 2006 in respect of the availability of a statistical breakdown of grant holders by socio-economic background, I referred to the fact that limited indicative data on the socio-economic background of grantholders have been collected in the past on the higher education grants scheme only. My Department's student support unit is currently in the...

Written Answers — Multi-Denominational Schools: Multi-Denominational Schools (4 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: As I indicated in my statement on the publication of the Estimates for 2006, extra funding is being made available to the primary school management bodies. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the funding being provided to Educate Together is being increased to €120,000. This represents an almost threefold increase over the level of the grant allocation for this body under the 2005...