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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The general position is that persons employed and paid by the Board of Management of a school are employees of the school and their conditions of employment are a matter for the school. The public service pension-related deduction applies to public servants working in public service bodies who contribute to a pension scheme, or who receive a payment in lieu of such a contribution. Employees...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Major Building Project for Lusk Community College is at an advanced stage of architectural planning Stage 2(b) - Detailed Design, which involves planning permission, fire certificate and disability access certificate and the completion of tender documents. All statutory approvals have been secured. The second phase of the project provides for a new build to cater for an additional...

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

Richard Bruton: A decision on this case has been issued by my Department in recent days.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The teacher referred to by the Deputy obtained conditional registration for the post primary sector from the 12th July 2016. She will be paid at the qualified rate during the period of her conditional registration. If she obtains full registration for the post primary sector she will continue to be paid at the qualified rate. During the period referred to by the Deputy she was paid at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning - Stage 2b - Detailed Design, which includes the applications for Planning Permission, Fire Cert and Disability Access Cert and the preparation of Tender Documents. All statutory approvals have been granted. However, on January 1st 2016 there were 66 major projects under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE), which is an independent statutory agency, is responsible, through its network of Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports, including SNA support. The NCSE allocates SNA support to schools in accordance with the criteria set out in my Department's Circular...

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

Richard Bruton: I regret the delay in providing a response to the Deputy's question regarding the amount of moneys spent by each of the third level universities on legal cases involving staff for each of the past five years. The Higher Education Authority has now collated the information requested which is detailed in the following tables. Name of university: University College Dublin Amount spent on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: My Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA-designated higher education institutions, including the university referred to by the Deputy. The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of funding is then a matter for the individual institution. Universities are autonomous bodies as set...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Postal Codes (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: In general, business units in my Department engage with the school community and in this context, Eircodes have been appended to post-primary school addresses on the Department's central database. Work is currently ongoing to add the Eircodes to primary school addresses. My Department was represented on the interdepartmental group established to implement the postcode system and has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: For student grant purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances, either as students dependent on parents/legal guardian or as independent mature students. A student may be assessed as an independent student if he/she has attained the age of 23 on the 1st of January of the year of first entry to an approved course or on re-entry to an approved course following a break...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The school building project referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning and my Department is fully committed to progressing the project to construction. All statutory approvals have been obtained and the Stage 2b submission has been approved by my Department. However, on January 1st 2016 there were 66 major projects under construction. Since the start of...

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

Richard Bruton: In January 2016, my Department had a capital allocation for the school sector of €427 million. The priority within the allocation is for the provision of permanent school places and these are provided through the delivery of Large Scale Projects and the Additional Accommodation Programme. Over 85% of the 2016 allocation has been assigned to Large Scale Projects and the Additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 478 and 485 together. As the Deputy may be aware, all primary and post primary schools may apply for funding to address a range of capital works, including structural repair works under my Department's capital schemes, including the Major Projects scheme, Additional Accommodation scheme, Summer Works scheme and Emergency Works scheme. In view of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Rights (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: Break entitlements for employees are set out in Section 12 of the Organisation of Working Time of Working Time Act, 1997: Section 12 (1) - "An employer shall not require an employee to work for a period of more than 4 hours and 30 minutes without allowing him or her a break of at least 15 minutes."Section 12 (2) – "An employer shall not require an employee to work for a period of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The building project for the school to which the Deputy refers was recently approved to progress to the advanced stage of the architectural planning process, Stage 2(b) - Detailed Design Stage, which includes the applications for planning permission, fire cert and disability access cert and the preparation of Tender Documents. Once all statutory approvals have been secured, and subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: The building project for the school to which the Deputy refers was recently approved to progress to the advanced stage of the architectural planning process, Stage 2(b) - Detailed Design, which includes the applications for planning permission, fire cert and disability access cert and the preparation of tender documents. The design team, in liaison with officials from the relevant local...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has since liaised with the school in question regarding the matter to which he refers. The school indicated that it expects to be in a position to provide the clarifications sought by the Department shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy may be aware, my Department recently approved funding for the construction of one mainstream classroom at the school in question to facilitate a new teacher appointment from September 2016. The school also applied for funding to replace a prefab currently in use. Whilst it is my Department's intention, in accordance with the six year Programme for Government 2016-2021, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: All Post Primary schools have been allocated additional teaching resources for pupils with high incidence special educational needs, including Specific Learning Disability (SLD), of which dyslexia is one such SLD. It is a matter for individual schools to use their professional judgment to identify pupils who will receive this support and to use the resources available to the school to...

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

Richard Bruton: The building project for the school to which the Deputy refers is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. All statutory approvals have been obtained and the Stage 2b submission has been approved by my Department. Arising from significant changes to the Public Works Contract (PWC) introduced earlier this year, the Board of Management and their Design Team have been advised of the...