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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Officials from the special education section of my Department meet their counterparts in the Department of Health and Children, the Health Service Executive, HSE, and the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, on a regular and ongoing basis to discuss issues of mutual concern. However, no recent meeting involving the HSE, south east area, has taken place regarding the matters to which...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I am aware of the work undertaken by the partnership and recently received a copy of its objectives and work plan for 2005-06. These documents have been forwarded to my Department's social inclusion unit. The partnership has received support from my Department since 2004 through the secondment of a primary school teacher, on a full cost recoupment basis, to work with the partnership as a...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1228, 1233, 1241, 1245 and 1384 together. The mainstream teacher allocation of all primary schools, including one-teacher schools, is determined by reference to the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year. The staffing schedule is outlined in a circular which is issued annually to all primary schools. In addition such schools may be...

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1229 and 1236 together. A notification of an intention to apply for the recognition of a new Educate Together school in Blessington, County Wicklow has been lodged. The proposal is for Educate Together to take over patronage of the existing Montessori school. The closing date for receipt of a formal and full application for recognition is 31 January 2006. The...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The higher education grant schemes operate under the Local Authorities (Higher Education Grants) Acts 1968 to 1992. When assessing the means of students, other than independent mature students, the Acts specify that the students' means and those of their parents or guardians must be below a prescribed limit. As regards the operation of third level grants schemes, I should point out that the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: An application has been received from the school authority for capital funding towards the provision of an extension to provide ancillary accommodation. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria and is being considered in the context of the school building and modernisation programme 2006-10.

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Board: Residential Institutions Redress Board (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1258 and 1232 together. Section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides that the Minister for Education and Science may, by order, insert additional institutions in the Schedule to the Act. For an institution to be considered under section 4, it must be an industrial school, a reformatory school, an orphanage, a children's home, a special...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: My Department funds three means-tested maintenance grant schemes for third level education students in respect of attendance on approved courses in approved third level institutions and one maintenance grant scheme in respect of students attending approved post leaving certificate courses in approved PLC centres. These are the higher education grants scheme, the vocational education...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria and is being considered in the context of the school building and modernisation programme 2006-10.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria and is being considered in the context ofthe school building and modernisation programme 2006-10.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Schools catering for non-national pupils who have significant English language deficits are entitled to assistance to enable these pupils gain full access to the curriculum. Schools that have 14 to 27 non-English speaking non-national pupils enrolled are entitled to a full-time temporary language support teaching post at primary level. Schools with 28 or more such pupils are entitled to two...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy is aware, the schools to which she refers have agreed to amalgamate. A technical inspection of the existing buildings found that neither would be suitable to act as a host for the new school. Therefore, it is necessary to apply a greenfield site solution to facilitate the amalgamation. The school authorities advertised for sites and details of replies have been submitted to my...

Written Answers — Summer Works Scheme: Summer Works Scheme (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The school to which the Deputy refers has submitted an application for a mechanical upgrade under the summer works scheme 2006. All applications under this scheme are currently being assessed and I expect to be in a position to publish the list of successful applicants shortly.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy is aware, a general allocation scheme has been introduced under which mainstream primary schools have been provided with resource teaching hours, based on enrolment figures, to cater for children with high incidence special educational needs, SEN, such as dyslexia and those with learning support needs. All schools were notified of their general allocation for the 2005-06 school...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: My Department funds three means-tested maintenance grant schemes for third level education students in respect of attendance on approved courses in approved third level institutions and one maintenance grant scheme in respect of students attending approved post leaving certificate courses in approved PLC centres. These are the higher education grants scheme, the vocational education...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question wrote directly to my office concerning the matters now referred to and I furnished a comprehensive response to the school recently. My letter contained advice to the school on how it might address the specific issues that are of concern to it and my officials will be happy to follow up on any issues with them.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: My Department is aware that the population of County Louth continues to increase and that this is causing some strain on existing educational provision at primary and post-primary level. However, my Department has undertaken a number of measures to address the current and future need for pupil places in this area in general and in the areas referred to by the Deputy in particular. In this...

Written Answers — Third Level Funding: Third Level Funding (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: Details of recurrent funding provided to each institute of technology in 2005 are set out in the following table. The annual budget for each institute of technology is at present allocated on the basis of its total pay and non-pay requirements following consideration of its annual programmes and budget submission which is required under the RTC/DIT Acts. The allocation takes into account the...

Written Answers — Third Level Funding: Third Level Funding (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1248 and 1249 together. I am pleased to advise the Deputy of all payments made during the 2005 fiscal year in respect of capital works in the third level sector. The following tables outline in detail capital funding paid to the institute of technology sector and the university sector. Institute 2005 PRTLI Total Athlone Institute of Technology 912,656...

Written Answers — Third Level Funding: Third Level Funding (25 Jan 2006)

Mary Hanafin: The recurrent funding allocated to each university in 2005 is given as follows. â'¬ million University College Dublin 158.79 University College Cork 108.23 National University of Ireland, Galway 83.34 National University of Ireland, Maynooth 40.14 Trinity College Dublin 114.32 University of Limerick 65.62 Dublin City University 46.26