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Seanad: Summer Programme: Statements (18 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...in. He said that schools should not be shamed into providing the summer programme. It is certainly not my intention to shame any school. Nor should the Department be shaming any school, and it does not. It is actually about trying to encourage them. It is about trying to address all of the feedback that we are getting from them as to why they are not providing it. The main reason,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...to be closed due to unforeseen or exceptional circumstances. However, schools must ensure the safety of those in their care and give due consideration to this in making a decision on whether to close a school. The Department does not centrally determine whether or not a school can close once the overall number of teaching days is delivered by the school over the course of the year as the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...individual school authorities to make such arrangements locally based on the specific care needs of the children enrolled in the school. The Department has no role in providing such training and does not hold the information requested. When a school opens a special class, considerable supports and resources are made available from the National Council of Special Education and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews and the school should liaise with the NCSE directly in the event that additional supports are required. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. Accordingly your correspondence has been forwarded to the NCSE for direct reply. The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) scheme is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews and the school should liaise with the NCSE directly in the event that additional supports are required. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. Accordingly your correspondence has been forwarded to the NCSE for direct reply. The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) scheme is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: The NCSE has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews. The Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. The school can apply to the NCSE for a review of its SNA allocation if it is insufficient to meet the needs of its students. Detailed information on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...specific to needs of each student, contact details are available on www.ncse.ie. Schools may apply to the NCSE for additionality where they can demonstrate that the current allocation does not meet additional care needs within the mainstream or other special classes in the school. Applications for additionality arising from significant new or emerging additional care needs, which...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Schooling (11 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: It is important that the Deputy raised this question because we have to consider these matters, which the Department does. The Deputy conceded that the scheme comes under the DEIS programme and that it is only for schools within that programme at present. It is also important to point out that special schools receive more in capitation than a DEIS school receives in combined funding of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: The NCSE has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews. The Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. The school can apply to the NCSE for a review of its SNA allocation if it is insufficient to meet the needs of its students. Detailed information on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: .... The NCSE has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of SET and SNA support and reviews. The Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) scheme is designed to provide schools with additional adult support staff who can assist children...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (4 Oct 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) and reviews. The Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. When a school has been allocated an SNA, the Board of Management, as the employer, is responsible for filling the vacancy and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Sep 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...NCSE has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) and reviews. The Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. The NCSE publish statistics on SNA allocations to primary, post primary and special schools in tabular form, by county, for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Sep 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) and reviews. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. Budget 2022 provides funding for an additional 1,165 SNAs (in 2022) to provide support to children with special educational...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) and reviews. The Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. Budget 2022 provides funding for an additional 1,165 SNAs (in 2022) to provide support to children with special educational needs,...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...provisions being capable of being commenced. In the context of the EPSEN Act, there were financial reasons as to why certain provisions could not be commenced. We want to ensure that the latter does not happen on this occasion, but I need the width and breadth of stakeholder consultation and submissions in respect of what we are doing. I thank the Senator for tabling the amendment.

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...to reflect this in their admission policy and statement. The Senator can take it that the NCSE is not going to contact or approach a school in circumstances where it is not of the view that it does not have sufficient capacity to open a special class. This is a two-step process and I am correct in what I have said, which the Senator repeated, about co-operation not being 100% binding...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: I have already answered that. I stated earlier to the Senator that I am not proposing that a patron should have to dissolve a board only in circumstances where it does not comply with the section 37A order. Other than that, there is no need to do it. I also reiterate that co-operation, by its very nature, is not 100% binding. We are adding new functions to comply. It is important to note...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...time I am answering the Senator's specific question around the dissolution of a board. I will say again to him that I am not proposing that a board be dissolved, only in circumstances that it does not comply with a section 37A direction. That is my view.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) and reviews. The Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. Budget 2022 provides funding for an additional 1,165 SNAs (in 2022) to provide support to children with special educational needs,...