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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The school to which the Deputy refers is intended to be a single-stream school. Under the current pupil/teacher ratio of 28:1, a single stream school would be expected to cater for some 224 pupils when fully developed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Tógála Scoileanna (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Is féidir liom a dheimhniú go bhfuair an Roinn iarratas mór caipitil ón scoil dá dtagraíonn an Teachta. Mar is eol gan dabht don Teachta tugtar cuntas sa Phlean Tógála Chúig Bliana, a d'fhógair mé ar 9 Márta 2012, na tionscadail mhóra tógála a ndéanfar tosnú ar iad a thógáil i gcaitheamh an Phlean...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that the overriding objective of Education capital expenditure is to meet the demographic challenge facing the education system whereby total pupil enrolment in both primary and post-primary schools is expected to grow by around 107,000 additional pupils between 2012 and 2019 - over 70,000 at primary level and over 35,000 at post primary - and will continue to rise at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: An all-in-devolved grant has been approved for the school referred to by the Deputy to provide 3 permanent replacement en-suite mainstream classrooms with some additional ancillary accommodation. These replacement classrooms will greatly enhance the schools accommodation and represents phase I of the process to meet the school's long term needs. Phase II would include the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 354 and 357 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports, including the allocation of resource hours to schools, including supports for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The MSAP (Mature Students Admission Pathway) is designed to assess a range of competencies considered important for success in tertiary study. I understand that mature students applying for specific courses in UCC, UCD and NUIG are required to have a MSAP result. Universities are autonomous institutions within the meaning of the Universities Act 1997 and the management of their academic...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 358 to 362, inclusive, together. The Deputy will be aware that the establishment of a network of autism-specific special classes in schools across the country has been a key educational priority in recent years and supports my Department's policy to provide for children with special educational needs, including autism, to be included in mainstream schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy may be aware all school buildings that are not covered by state indemnity are required to adequately insure their school premises including insurance for storm damage. Accordingly, any damages caused during the recent bad weather would be a matter for schools' insurers. If works are required to school buildings that is not covered by insurance it is open to the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing Appeals Mechanism (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools is published annually on the Department's 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 the previous 30 September. The staffing arrangements for the coming school year 2014/15 are set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Funding (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Parents in receipt of the Home Tuition Grant aid engage tutors directly and the grant is paid to the parent either on a monthly basis in arrears or where possible in advance to assist parents cover the cost of engaging a tutor. Parents/legal guardians approved for the Home Tuition engage tutors for the duration of the approved home tuition scheme on a self-employment basis and are paid...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Staff (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: There are currently 2 civil servants working in my Constituency Office. The grades of these officers are as follows: - 1 Higher Executive Officer - 1 Staff Officer Both staff are located in the Headquarters of the Department of Education and Skills, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1. The total anticipated salary costs in 2014 is €101,417. The salaries and overtime (if any) paid to these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Major Building Project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning, Stage 2b - Detailed Design which includes applications for planning permission, Fire Safety Certification, Disability Access Certification and the preparation of tender documents. The brief for the project includes provision for an 8 classroom school with an additional 3...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: This Government remains committed to protecting and enhancing the educational experience of children. Despite the difficult economic climate, my Department has been able to protect front-line education services in 2014 by identifying sufficient expenditure savings and efficiencies. This includes provision for additional teachers in primary and post primary schools as well as additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that on 20th March last I announced that 386 schools have been approved funding under the Summer Works scheme to undertake school improvements. This first round of funding will allow schools to carry out small and medium scale building works across three categories of projects - Gas, Electrical & Mechanical. A second round of the scheme is expected to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that on 20th March last I announced that 386 schools have been approved funding under the Summer Works scheme to undertake school improvements. This first round of funding will allow schools to carry out small and medium scale building works across three categories of projects - Gas, Electrical & Mechanical. A second round of the scheme is expected to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Under the terms of my Department's Free Fee Schemes the Exchequer meets the cost of tuition fees in respect of eligible students who are pursuing their first undergraduate full-time course of study. The main conditions of the scheme are that students must hold inter alia EU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss state for at least three...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department is aware of the proposal submitted by the school referred to by the Deputy to enrol a 7th stream of junior infants from September 2014. Demographic projections for the area in question indicate a spike in Junior Infant demand this coming September which is expected to level off in 2015, 2016 and beyond. In that regard, my Department has sanctioned additional provision for one...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Weight of Schoolbags (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department issued circulars to all primary and post-primary schools in 2005 to highlight the potential health hazard of overweight schoolbags and to outline a range of local measures that could be put in place to help alleviate the problem. The circulars referred to the recommendations of the previously published report of the Working Group on the Weight of School Bags. This report...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (25 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Under the Universities Act 1997 University College Dublin is an autonomous statutory institution and its management authorities are responsible for the operational affairs of the University. I understand that the case referred to by the Deputy involves two Supreme Court appeals which remain outstanding and in that context it would not be appropriate to comment further on the matter.