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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Department of Education and Skills does not generally approve, commission, sponsor or endorse educational text-books. Books are commissioned and published by educational publishers, and schools select their books from those available from a number of publishers. Where there is very little or no demand for a book in Irish on a particular subject the publishers will not enter the market....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question has submitted an application for significant additional funding for the project to which he refers. My Department is currently considering the request and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority as soon as this process is completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, a process to review DEIS - the Action Plan for Educational Inclusion which began last year is nearing completion and it is my intention to publish a new Action Plan before the end of this year. The review is looking at all aspects of DEIS, including the range and impact of different elements of the School Support Programme, particularly the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The means test arrangements of the Student Grant Scheme are applied nationally on the same basis to both employed and self-employed applicants. Gross income before the deduction of income tax or universal social charge, is assessed with certain specified social welfare and health service executive payments excluded. The assessment of income from the same starting point is deemed to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is, since 2006, the body with statutory authority and responsibility for the registration of teachers in this State, including the recognition of teaching qualifications. Applications for registration are considered by the Teaching Council under Section 31 of the Acts and the Teaching Council Registration Regulations 2016. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: Ensuring access to an equitable education and skills system is a driving force throughout my Department's work. As the Deputy will be aware, last month, I launched the Statement of Strategy/Action Plan for Education. This Action Plan reflects the relevant Programme for Government commitments and also explicitly acknowledges the requirement that public bodies consider human...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers is due to open in 2017 and the patronage process for this school is ongoing at present. As the Deputy may be aware, the building project for the permanent school building for the new post-primary school to serve the Malahide/Portmarnock school planning areas is included in my Department's current six-year construction programme announced last November...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers is due to open in 2017 and the patronage process for this school is ongoing at present. As the Deputy may be aware, the building project for the new post primary school to serve Swords is included in the 6 year construction programme that was announced last November. The project for this school is listed to go to construction in 2019-21....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: In identifying the requirement for additional school places, my Department uses a Geographical Information System to identify the areas under increased demographic pressure nationwide. The system uses data from the Central Statistics Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Department of Social Protection and information from my Department's own databases. With this information, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: My Department will be in contact with the school referred to by the Deputy shortly in relation to initiating the planning work associated with delivering the proposed major capital project at the school. This will include making plans for a site visit to the school.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Middletown Centre for Autism project is a jointly funded initiative between the Department of Education in Northern Ireland (DE) and the Department of Education and Skills (DES) aimed at supporting the promotion of excellence in the development and harmonisation of education and allied services to children and young people with autistic spectrum disorders. The Centre provides a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Support Services (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: My Department will continue to work closely with the Department of Social Protection on the implementation of Pathways To Work 2016 -2020. The Further Education and Training (FET) sector has undergone major structural and policy changes over the last number of years, with the purpose of ensuring that we have a FET sector that is flexible and responsive to the needs of learners and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: There are 202 mainstream schools in Co. Donegal. Of the 826 schools nationwide included in DEIS, 100 of those are in Co. Donegal. A list of all of the schools in the country, including an indicator of their DEIS status, is available on my Department's website at the following link: .

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: Irish Sign Language (ISL) has recently been introduced as a short course for Junior Cycle on a pilot basis. My Department will monitor the demand for and take-up of this course in Junior Cycle. There are no plans at present to expand ISL into the Leaving Certificate Established programme. However, there are four modules on Sign Language available as part...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Eligibility (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that funding for the works outlined are appropriate to the Summer Works Scheme (SWS). The purpose of the SWS is to devolve funding to individual school authorities to undertake small and medium scale improvement works that will upgrade existing school facilities, which can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: Following the publication of the Mazars review of the process employed by the University of Limerick (UL) to inquire into allegations made by a number of individuals, the Higher Education Authority (HEA) met with the University to request a full response and an action plan to address the recommendations in the review. The response from UL was received by the HEA in March 2016 and set...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that Budget 2016 made provision for some 2,260 additional teaching posts for our primary and post primary schools for the current school year. These posts provided for an improvement in the staffing schedules at primary and post primary levels, enhanced the leadership and management roles of deputy principals at post-primary level by reducing their teaching time,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: When the moratorium on the filling of posts of responsibility was introduced in 2009, the Government exempted Principal and Deputy Principal posts in all primary and post-primary schools. These posts continue to be replaced in the normal manner. The impact of the moratorium was therefore limited to the Assistant Principal and Special Duties posts of responsibility. There are limited...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department provides a Home Tuition scheme which provides a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons such as chronic illness, are unable to attend school. The scheme also provides a compensatory educational service for children with special educational needs seeking an educational placement. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy is aware that the Teaching Council was asked to examine and advise on entry requirements to programmes of initial teacher education, including the Gaeltacht entry scheme to the Bachelor of Education programme. The Teaching Council's advice is currently being considered by my Department and I intend to make a decision in the matter shortly.