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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (8 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Action Plan for Education contains an action to prepare guidelines on Entrepreneurial Education. These guidelines will examine linkages that can promote enterprise engagement and innovation with schools. The guidelines will be available by end of Quarter 2 in 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Staff (8 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: The table contains details of the ministerial appointees at my Department, their grade and salary as provided for in accordance with the Guidelines for Ministerial Appointments as published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In addition to this I have included staff that are employed by the Houses of the Oireachtas and are assigned to the Minister of State and I. As my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Staff (8 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: There are no public or civil service officials engaged by the Minister of State or I on a secondment basis to assist with constituency matters.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: I proposes to take Questions Nos. 93 and 94 together. In Budget 2017 the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and I, announced a policy review with the aim of designing and implementing a sustainable and predictable multi-annual funding model for higher and further education and training involving increased Employer and Exchequer contributions from 2018. The review will be undertaken...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, a process to review the DEIS Programme which began last year is nearing completion and it is my intention to publish a new Action Plan for Educational Inclusion in the coming weeks. The review process is looking at all aspects of DEIS, including the range and impact of different elements of the School Support Programme, the potential for innovation within and between...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Qualifications Data (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: The information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department. My Officials have requested the Higher Education Authority to request the information and I will arrange for it to be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: There are a number of complex legal and technical issues to be resolved pertaining to the proposal by the sports club referred to by the Deputy. My Department has been in ongoing communications with the relevant school authorities and Trustees' representatives and the sports club in this regard and will continue to engage where required.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: 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 S support. The NCSE allocates S support to schools in accordance with the criteria set out in the Department's Circular...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: Children with special educational needs in schools are supported by classroom teachers, special needs assistants, and through the provision of additional resource teaching support in mainstream schools. Schools are supported in providing for the educational needs of children with special educational needs by the National Council for Special Education, the National Educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the amount approximately it would cost to provide an extra 300 full time resource teachers annually, would be €18 Million for a full years cost. On 27thOctober, the NCSE announced that following the second round of resource teaching allocation support for the 2016/17 school year, 7430 resource teacher posts have now been allocated to schools....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: My Department approved a significant devolved grant in April 2015 to the school in question for a permanent extension to replace some temporary buildings identified as being most in need of replacement. Earlier this year the school sought additional funding to provide for an increased scope of works, which was approved by my Department I can confirm however that no funding has been drawn...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Investments (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: My Department is the trustee of a number of legacy endowment and stockholdings and avails of the expertise of the Charities Regulatory Authority (CRA) (formerly The Commissioners for Charitable Donations and Bequests) to manage the day-to-day operation of these investments. My Department completed the transfer of funds in respect of these investments to the CRA in 2013. Following a review of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Data (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 105, 107, 109 and 110 together. As the Deputy will be aware the HEA conducts undergraduate progression analysis annually which covers progression / non-progression from 1st year into 2nd year across all HEA funded institutions. The most recent analysis, completed in the November 2016, covers progression / non-progression from academic year 2013/2014 into...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Funding (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: I proposes to take Questions Nos. 106, 108 and 113 together. The detail requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tables. IT Carlow Payroll costs to operational funding Institute of Technology Carlow - Payroll costs as a percentage of operational funding - 2013-2016 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 Pay pay % Pay pay % Pay pay % Pay pay % Pay pay % of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Staff (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: I proposes to take Questions Nos. 111 and 112 together. According to the Higher Education Authority's most recent institutional profiles (which relate to the academic year 2013/14), 19% of full-time academic staff hold a doctoral qualification and 26% of all academic staff hold a doctoral qualification at the Institute of Technology Carlow. In relation to Waterford...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: Department Circular 0058/2013 "Assignment of HSCL Coordinators within DEIS schools" informs all DEIS Urban Primary and DEIS Post Primary school management and staff regarding the process for assigning teachers as HSCL Coordinators. The contents of the Circular were agreed with teacher unions and management bodies. One of the basic requirement of the HSCL Scheme since its inception is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Exchange Scheme (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: The provisions of the teacher exchange scheme are set out by my Department in Circular Letter 0017/2015 the contents of which were agreed under the auspices of the Teacher Conciliation Council. The Teacher Conciliation Council is part of the scheme of Conciliation and Arbitration for Teachers and was set up to deal with claims and proposals relating to the Terms and Conditions of employment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (7 Dec 2016)

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), full details of which are on the Department's website. Under this scheme schools can have an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Bruton: The project was recently retendered and my Department is currently awaiting receipt of the tender report from the school and its design team. Subject to no issues arising it is envisaged construction will commence in the first quarter of 2017 and take approximately 24 months to complete.