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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The information requested by the Deputy is in the following table. The figures relate to March 2016. POST PRIMARY Teachers-Number of Whole Time Equivalents PRIMARY Teachers-Number of Whole Time Equivalents 0-25,000 - - 25,000-30,000 24.76 24.73 30,000-35,000 1,200.94 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Expenditure (12 Jul 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 Institutes such as Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of funding is then a matter for the individual institution. Details on the operating...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 225 and 226 together. As the Deputy will be aware, the new Programme for Government outlines that this new Government will continue to support the creation of Technological Universities. This is in line with the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 which provides a framework for the development of the higher education sector to 2030. With regard to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The building project referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. All statutory approvals have been obtained and the Stage 2b submission was recently approved by the Department. However, on 1st January 2016 there were 66 major projects under construction. Since the start of this year 14 more major projects have been progressed to construction and there are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: As I have explained to the Deputy in response to previous Parliamentary Questions, Caranua is an independent statutory body established pursuant to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to support the needs of survivors of residential institutional child abuse. Administrative and operational issues such as those raised in the Deputy's question are day to day matters that are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The application for emergency works scheme funding (EWS) from the school to which the Deputy refers has been refused. It would appear that the school put in an underpass that compromised a wall on the school's property. This development gave rise to the EWS application for funding to repair the wall. However, as the design and delivery of the underpass should have taken the wall into...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: In accordance with the European Social Fund Regulations, following the adoption in 2015 of the ESF Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning (PEIL) 2014-2020, initial pre-financing of 3.5% and 30% in the case of the Youth Employment Initiative priority axis, together with annual pre-financing of 2% for 2016 resulted in a total of €51.8m receipts. €31.4m of this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is included on the six year construction programme announced on 17th November 2015. The project is at an advanced Stage of Architectural Planning, Stage 2(b)- Detailed Design, which includes the application for planning permission and other statutory approvals and the preparation of tender documents. The design team will submit...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have an assessment carried out by a member of the panel...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have an assessment carried out by a member of the panel...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Under this scheme schools can have an assessment carried out by a member of the panel of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy may be aware that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). The scheme is administered by NEPS from a panel of private practitioners maintained for this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Sexual Abuse Cases (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 237, 239, 240, 243 and 244 together. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment in the case of Louise O'Keeffe delivered on 28th January 2014, determined that there had been a violation by Ireland of Articles 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) and awarded the applicant €30,000 in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Sexual Abuse Cases (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 238, 241 and 242 together. In relation to Judge Barrett's Judgement, these claims are still on-going and before the Court. The Deputy will appreciate I cannot comment on individual cases before the courts.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Relations (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: ASTI has issued a directive to their members to withdraw from the Croke Park hours. These are the 33 hours of additional work per year (less than one hour per week) that were agreed under the Croke Park agreement, to facilitate staff meetings, parent-teacher meetings etc. without closing schools. ASTI's decision to withdraw from these hours means that the union has repudiated the Lansdowne...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoil Issues (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 246 and 247 together. A list of all primary and post-primary schools including their county, Irish classification and pupil numbers is available on my Department's website at the following link: . All-Irish classification means that Irish is the normal language of communication with the class for all subjects & activities, except the teaching of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places will arise nationwide. The GIS 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 carries out demographic...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The process for the establishment of new schools to meet demographic needs and the separate process in relation to the patronage of each new schools incorporates consideration of, and the potential for, Irish-medium provision. It is open to all patron bodies and prospective patrons, including patrons involved in Irish-medium provision and indeed any prospective patron which wishes to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Student Grant Scheme for 2016 opened on the 7th of April, more than two weeks earlier than last year. SUSI is expecting to receive more than 110,000 applications for the 2016/17 academic year. To date it has received 87,000 applications and provisionally awarded grants to 41,000 students. All applications received by SUSI by the priority closing date of Friday 8th July will be...