Results 16,001-16,020 of 20,682 for speaker:Mary Hanafin

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that my Department has recently allocated funding to address essential roof repairs at the school in question.

Written Answers — Linguistic Institute of Ireland: Linguistic Institute of Ireland (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 476 and 477 together. At an extraordinary general meeting of ITE, held on 18 July 2003, the company agreed to initiate a process of voluntary liquidation. This decision was a matter for the members in accordance with their memorandum and articles of association and relevant company law. I understand that a meeting of the executive committee of ITE on 5...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Section 8 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002, provides that applications may be made to the redress board within three years of the establishment of the board. This means that the statutory closing date for receipt of applications by the board is 15 December 2005. The board has made arrangements for applications to be received at its offices up to midnight on that date and it...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Details of awards made by the Residential Institutions Redress Board per month as requested by the Deputy are contained in the following tabular statement. The records of the board relate to the date on which the awards are made. Some 75% of awards arise as a result of settlement negotiations and applicants are given a period of 28 days to accept or reject these offers. Due to the time lapse...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Under the terms of my Department's third level student maintenance grant schemes, where the applicant is not an independent mature student, the reckonable income to be determined for the purposes of the award of the maintenance grant is income from all sources of the candidate and his or her parents or guardians where applicable. The means test arrangements of the student maintenance grant...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department is in receipt of an application for major capital funding from the management authority of the school to which the Deputy refers. The application is being examined in the school planning section of my Department in the context of an overall review of primary and post-primary educational provision in the Waterford city area. I expect this review to...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The person referred to by the Deputy was granted restricted recognition by my Department in 1999. Restricted recognition entitles a teacher to teach in special schools and classes and in resource teaching posts for children with low incidence special educational needs in mainstream schools. I understand that this person has been teaching as a resource teacher in a primary school since...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Under the terms of my Department's post-primary school transport scheme, a pupil is eligible for school transport if he or she resides 4.8 km, 3 miles or more from the post-primary centre in the catchment area in which he or she resides. The scheme is not designed to facilitate parents who choose to send their children to a post-primary centre outside of the catchment area in which they...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy will be aware, the provision of therapy services for people with disabilities, including speech therapy, is a matter for the Health Services Executive, HSE, and funding is provided to the HSE for such purposes. In the circumstances, the provision of speech and language therapy to the person referred to by the Deputy should be raised with the local HSE office.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department has received an application for major capital funding from the management authority of the school to which the Deputy refers to cater for its accommodation needs into the future. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects. Progress on the proposed works is being...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: There are currently no plans to include a specific module on trades unions in the junior certificate civic, social and political education, CSPE, syllabus. This is because the potential already exists for teachers to incorporate teaching about trades unions into the course of study they undertake with students. The CSPE syllabus is a concept-based syllabus with highly flexible units of study....

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department is in receipt of an application for large scale capital funding from the school to which the Deputy refers. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects and progress on the proposed works will be considered in the context of the schools building and modernisation...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Officials in my Department's school planning section are working closely with the school authority in determining the long-term accommodation needs of the school referred to by the Deputy. This involves consideration of population growth, demographic trends, current and projected enrolments, recent and planned housing developments and how best to provide for the school's current and emerging...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (1 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The higher education grants scheme operates under the Local Authorities (Higher Education Grants) Acts 1968 to 1992. These Acts define a mature student to mean a person of not less than 23 years of age, or such other age as may stand specified for the time being in regulations made by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance, who have secured places in approved institutions...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy should be aware that significant improvements have been made in the pupil-teacher ratio and in average class size in recent years at primary level. The most recent figure available for average class size at primary level refers to the 2003-04 school year, when the average class size was 23.9, down from 26.6 in 1996-97. The pupil teacher ratio at primary level, which includes all...

Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (1 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Funding arrangements for voluntary secondary schools are structured mainly on the basis of capitation grants with additional grants for support services such as care-taking. This provides schools with considerable flexibility as to the manner in which such services are provided to cater for the needs of their pupils. Caretakers employed by schools are employees of the individual schools and...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (1 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: As I advised the Deputy in response to a parliamentary question, reference No. 32540/05, of 8 November 2005, my Department has recently conveyed its decision in this case to the relevant transport liaison officer. Under the terms of the post-primary school transport scheme, routes are planned so that, in general, no pupil will have more than 3.2 kilometres to travel to a pick-up point....

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (1 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: A project for the provision of a physical education hall at Scoil Mhuire gan Smál, Blarney was progressed through the early stages of architectural planning during the late 1990s. I expect that this is the project to which the Deputy is referring. Due to financial constraints and competing demands the project was not progressed at that time. Since 2003 my Department has published details of...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (1 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Home tuition is primarily intended to provide compensatory instruction for pupils with a medical ailment that is likely to cause major disruption to their attendance at school on a continuing basis. In recent years home tuition has been extended as an interim support for children with a significant special educational need pending the provision of an appropriate school based educational...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (1 Dec 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department recently received an application for major capital funding from the school to which the Deputy refers. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large-scale projects. Progress on the proposed works is being considered in the context of the school building and modernisation programme from 2006 onwards.