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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has received an application for temporary accommodation from the school in question. The application will be considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority when the assessment process is completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: In the second report of the Public Service Benchmarking Body (issued in December 2007), the Body evaluated the pay and jobs of 109 grades across the public service, including school Principals. The Body recommended pay increases for 15 grades, including changes to the allowance payable to Principals of primary schools and of small post-primary schools. Under the Towards 2016 Review...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: Under the terms of the student grant scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students who meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those relating to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. In order to receive funding from SUSI, an applicant must be an Irish, EU/EEA or Swiss Federation national and have been resident in the state or the EU/EEA/Swiss...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September.   There has been no change to the staffing of the school referred to by the Deputy since last year.  The school has a mainstream staffing of Principal and 3 classroom teachers for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Springboard Programme (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The position is that under my Department's free fees schemes students are not eligible for tuition fee funding where they are pursuing a second undergraduate course of study. This rule applies to all students and is regardless of whether or not they received exchequer funding for their first course of study. Tax relief at the standard rate of tax may be claimed in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: A review of the Public Works Contracts commenced in December 2013 during the terms of office of Minister Ruairi Quinn.  Following engagement between the Office of Government Procurement (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform) and industry stakeholders, in December 2014 the Government Contracts Committee for Construction, (GCCC), published its Report on the Review of the Performance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The level of extra teaching support provided in respect of language support to schools is determined by the numbers of eligible pupils enrolled and the associated levels of those pupils' language proficiency. Reforms introduced in the 2012/13 school year created a single simplified allocation process for both learning and language support. At primary level, learning/language support hours...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: Based on the number of students that qualified for free fees funding in the academic year 2014/15 (and were therefore liable to pay the Student Contribution), and taking into account overall expected increases in student numbers, it is estimated that the net cost to my Department of abolishing the Student Contribution for the 2017/18 academic year would be €206.56m. This...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that funding for special education provision in 2016 will amount to some €1.5 billion, which is equivalent to over 17% of the gross overall current allocation for education and training. It has increased by 10% in the past two years. The investment which is being made to support children with special educational needs is an area of spending which has been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Programme for Government has a commitment to reduce class sizes at primary level. Budget 2016 provides for a one point adjustment to the staffing allocation to primary schools, which has been implemented for the 2016/17 school year. The primary staffing schedule now operates on the basis of a general average of 1 classroom teacher for every 27 pupils. Each 1 point adjustment to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: Matters in relation to school books are dealt with at local school level.  My Department does not therefore have data in relation to overall school book costs at primary and post-primary level. However one estimate from publishers' sources suggested that the Irish school book market is worth approximately €60 million per annum. Circa. 94% of primary schools and 65% of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The data requested by the Deputy is not collected or collated by my Department. There are over 3,700 individual employers in the education and training sector and it would require a disproportionate amount of time and administrative resources to gather the data sought by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The data requested by the Deputy is not collected or collated by my Department. There are over 3,700 individual employers in the education and training sector and it would require a disproportionate amount of time and administrative resources to gather the data sought by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: In relation to the third level sector, my Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions. The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of this funding, along with funding it receives from private sources, is then a matter for the individual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pensions Data (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: Details of other employments, either prior to or subsequent to the award of a teacher's pension are not recorded on the Retired Teacher Payroll of my Department as the information is not required for the ongoing payment of pension. Regrettably therefore it is not possible to provide the information sought by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The purpose of the Home tuition scheme is to provide 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. Provision is also made for early for early intervention for children...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The context for certain budget measures in recent years was the need to reduce Government expenditure so that the country's finances could be stabilised and brought back to affordable levels. The improvements in the economy have now started to result in some improvements in the funding levels for the ETB sector. Some additional once-off funding was targeted in 2015 at those ETBs, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Catchment Areas (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers is located on a temporary basis in State-owned property off the Clonskeagh Road, adjacent to the Goatstown Stillorgan school planning area. The school, which is a Gaelscoil under the patronage of An Foras Pátrúnachta, opened on 1 September 2016 to help meet the demographic need for additional primary school places in the area. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: A number of measures were recently introduced by SUSI that are intended to improve the student's experience, by making the process more transparent. One of these measures is the introduction of Eircode as part of the online application form. The use of Eircode has improved processing times for students by allowing SUSI to more quickly identify the location of a student's home. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware, the review of the DEIS programme is currently underway and it is my intention that a New Action Plan for Educational Inclusion will be published by the end of this year. The review is looking at all aspects of DEIS, including the identification process for the inclusion of schools in the programme, the range and impact of different elements of the School Support...