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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: My Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. The GIS uses data from the Central Statistics Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Department of Social Protection and my Department's own databases. With this information, my Department carries out nationwide demographic exercises at primary and post...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector was established in 2011 to advise on how the primary education system can provide a sufficiently diverse range of primary schools and on how all primary schools can become more inclusive. The report of the Forum Advisory Group was published in April 2012 and made a series of recommendations aimed at ensuring that the education system...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm to the Deputy that 15 primary schools have closed in the past 3 years between 2014 and 2016 inclusive, across various locations nationally. I have attached a list of the schools in question for the Deputies convenience. The initiative for closing a school may come from a variety of sources, such as parents, staff, Board of Management, Patron and the Department. Any proposal to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The cost of increasing the capitation grant from €296 to €316 per pupil for post Primary Schools would cost approximately €6.5m. In relation to capitation levels for future years, the recently published Programme for a Partnership Government is committed to investing an extra €500 million in education by 2021 through various staffing and grant based measures...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 277 and 279 together. The Teaching Council is, since 2006, the statutory regulator and standards body for the teaching profession. It is intended that, under the revised Teaching Council [Registration] Regulations, Regulation 3 (Montessori and Other Categories) will be accommodated under Route 4. Under this route of registration a teacher currently...

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

Richard Bruton: The supplementary panel application process for eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers for the 2016/17 school year is set out in Circular 0058/2015 which is available on my Department's website. Since 2006, the Teaching Council is the body with statutory responsibility and authority for regulation of the teaching profession, including the registration of...

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

Richard Bruton: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The arrangements for panel access for...

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

Richard Bruton: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The supplementary panel application...

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

Richard Bruton: I can inform the Deputy 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). My Department, over the course of recent economic difficulties, has not only maintained...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware the outcome of the latest demographic exercises, based on the GIS, was the announcement, in November 2015, of the establishment of four new primary schools and nine new post-primary schools to open in 2017 and 2018 to cater for increased demographic needs. These schools include a new primary school which will open in 2018 to serve the Dublin South City Centre areas of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) is responsible for processing applications from schools for special needs assistants (SNA) supports. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in making recommendations for support. I recently announced that from September...

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

Richard Bruton: Special Needs Assistants are employed by the management authority of each individual school. It is a matter for the employer to comply with relevant legislation including the Maternity Protection, Protection of Mothers Who Are Breastfeeding Regulations 2004. Complaints in relation to contraventions of the above legislation by the employer may be presented/referred to the Director General of...

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

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware the management of complex capital programmes means ensuring that available funding is allocated in particular towards the delivery of large scale projects and the provision of additional accommodation. The 2016 capital provision for the school sector amounts to €527m of which €450m is assigned to the construction of large scale projects and the...

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

Richard Bruton: The school in question was allocated funding to build a standalone extension to include a mainstream classroom, resource room and WC for assisted users. The school authority has submitted an application for additional funding and the Building Unit of my Department has sought further information from the school in respect of this application. As soon as this information has been received...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Jul 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. A decision to grant planning permission for the project was issued by the Local Authority on 4th July 2016. As...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: My Department has a contract with the National Council for the Blind of Ireland for the provision of telephonist personnel to operate switchboard services. The tabular statement gives details of the costs in the years requested by the Deputy. The following tabular statement gives details of the cost of the Department engaging the services of telephonists from the National Council for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Department's website, www.education.ie, was designed to ensure a high level of accessibility to all visitors. The website's design follows international guidelines set out by the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). The site aims to comply with Level Double-A standard of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. In addition, a number of Triple-A checkpoints are incorporated to...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: I move the following Estimates:

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: No. It is a Private Members' Bill as I understand it.