Results 1,501-1,520 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Coughlan: My Department provides for a scheme of grants towards the purchase of equipment for the use of students in second-level schools who have been diagnosed as having serious physical and/or communicative disabilities which make ordinary communication through speech and/or writing impossible for them. The purpose of the grant-aid is to provide such students with equipment of direct educational...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Coughlan: There are no EU Directives which require to be transposed into primary or secondary legislation by my Department.

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The person to whom this question relates works with County Waterford VEC. I understand that the VEC has indicated to her that she would not be entitled to the incremental credit sought. I have received correspondence in relation to this person's case and will arrange for a reply to be issued to her as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The person to whom the question relates was previously refused incremental credit on the basis that the scheme does not extend to the setting in which she is working. She subsequently sought to have this decision reconsidered by my Department. I have requested my officials to respond to this as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the lands in question were acquired by the County Cork Vocational Education Committee with funding from my Department. The site will provide for an educational campus facility to cater for future demand at Post-Primary in the area referred to by the Deputy and to facilitate the proposed re-location of two existing schools, a Gaelscoil and a Special School....

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Under the National Employment Action Plan, the National Employment Services (NES) provides a dual-stranded approach from FÁS and Local Employment Services (LES) to systematically engage with unemployed people on reaching three months unemployment. As part of this process, the Department of Social Protection refers people in receipt of unemployment payments to the National Employment...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The number of employment services staff in FÁS is set out in the following table. These figures do not include staff involved in policy development. FÁS contracts for the provision of the Local Employment Service with 24 partnership companies across the country, with the exception of the Kildare Local Employment Service which is provided through a county based organisation. Local...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: There are currently nineteen retired post primary teachers employed on a part-time contractual basis in the voluntary secondary and community /comprehensive sectors. There were sixty eight retired teachers paid for employment in a casual /non casual substitute capacity in Secondary and Community/comprehensive schools on my Departments' payroll in September 2010. There are currently fifty...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Maintenance Grants Scheme for Students attending Post Leaving Certificate Courses is administered by the Vocational Education Committees on behalf of my Department. The candidate referred to by the Deputy should apply to her local VEC to establish her entitlement to a student grant for 2010/2011 academic year. Under the terms of the schemes, grant assistance is awarded to students...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I can confirm that money due to the person referred to by the Deputy will issue as soon as possible.

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: For the year 2009/10 there were 5,818 students with an exemption from Irish who were enrolled for year 2 of Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Applied and Leaving Certificate Vocational Programmes The data for Leaving Certificate students excluded those repeating these programmes. For the year 2009/10 there were 5743 students with an exemption from Irish who were enrolled for year 3 of...

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The arrangements for the appointment of the Board are currently being finalised and letters of appointment will issue shortly.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my officials have signed contracts for the site in question. The contracts are conditional on my Department obtaining a final grant of Planning Permission. My Department recently published the newspaper advertisement necessary to precede a planning application and submitted the planning application to the Local Authority. The progression of all large scale...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The school to which the Deputy refers has applied to my Department for capital funding for a large scale extension project. The application has been assessed in accordance with published prioritisation criteria for large scale projects and assigned a band 2 rating. Information in respect of the current school building programme along with all assessed applications for major capital works,...

Written Answers — School Management: School Management (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: In accordance with the provisions of the Education Act 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school. Individual school authorities are responsible for the drawing up of a school policy in relation to the wearing of school uniforms. However, my Department recommends that the formulation of such a school policy should allow for prior consultation...

Written Answers — School Management: School Management (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: In accordance with the provisions of the Education Act 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school. Individual school authorities are responsible for the drawing up of a school policy in relation to the wearing of school uniforms. However, my Department recommends that the formulation of such a school policy should allow for prior consultation...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: This project is currently at an advanced stage of the tender process. Assuming no issues arise, it is envisaged that the project will progress to construction in quarter 4 of this year.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The project at the school to which the Deputy refers is at an early stage of architectural planning. The design team recently submitted a Stage 2(a) submission which sets out a developed sketch scheme for the project. Officials from my Department are scheduled to meet with the school and its design team on 30th September to discuss this submission. Once the stage 2(a) is approved the design...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter, in the first instance, for the relevant assessing authority, i.e. the applicant's local authority or VEC. An applicant may appeal the decision to the relevant local authority or VEC. Where the assessing authority decides to reject the appeal, the applicant may appeal this decision to my Department by submitting an appeal form...