Results 17,241-17,260 of 20,682 for speaker:Mary Hanafin
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department has recently received an application for major capital funding from the management authority of the school to which the Deputy refers. The application will be assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale projects. Progress on the proposed works will be considered in the context of the school building and...
- Written Answers — Inquiry into Child Abuse: Inquiry into Child Abuse (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1087 and 1201 together. Section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides that the Minister for Education and Science may, by order, provide for the insertion in the Schedule of additional institutions in which children were placed and resident and in respect of which a public body had a regulatory or inspection function. Since the enactment...
- Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: As part of the proposals for modernisation and reform of the higher education sector contained in the OECD review of higher education in Ireland, the Government recently approved the early drafting of an Institutes of Technology Bill 2005 to transfer responsibility for the day-to-day management of the institutes of technology sector from the Department of Education and Science to a...
- Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1089 and 1090 together. The position at present is that six of the universities operate a direct entry system for students with a disability. The arrangements in place under the system, such as the points threshold for entry to courses, the type of courses that students can enter, and the selection procedures for admission to courses are matters for which each...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The funding allocated by my Department to Bus Ãireann in the years 2001 to 2004, and in the year 2005 to date in respect of the school transport scheme is outlined as follows. The details provided refer to the value of payments made in each calendar year, although some payments would relate to services provided in the previous year. 2001 â¬71.3 million 2002 â¬87.3 million 2003 â¬92.6...
- Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The Education (Welfare) Act 2000 established the National Educational Welfare Board as the single national body with responsibility for school attendance. The Act provides a comprehensive framework promoting regular school attendance and tackling the problems of absenteeism and early school leaving. The general functions of the board are to ensure that each child attends a recognised school...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The tender for the new community school in Dingle has been approved by my Department and a letter of intent has been issued to the contractor. Work on the new building is expected to commence shortly.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: My Department has identified a suitable site for the school referred to in the question. However, legal matters regarding title to the site in question need to be addressed by the local authority before the purchase of the site can be progressed further.
- Written Answers — Juvenile Detention Centres: Juvenile Detention Centres (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: There are four children detention schools under the aegis of my Department in the Dublin area, providing residential services for children generally up to age 16 years, who have been convicted of an offence or placed on remand by a Court. The four Dublin schools currently provide 74 places. Table 1 details the number of residential places provided in the ten year period from 1996 to 2005. The...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: It is a matter for the independent board of inquiry commissioned by Bus Ãireann to investigate the County Meath school bus crash to determine the timeframe for completion of its investigation. I am not aware that any decision has been taken regarding the publication of the investigation report. Current progress on the other investigations referred to by the Deputy and the publication of...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1097, 1139 and 1205 together. Catchment boundaries have their origins in the establishment of free post-primary education in the late 1960s. For planning purposes, the country was divided into geographic districts, each with several primary schools feeding into a post-primary centre with one or more post-primary schools. The intention was that these defined...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Question Nos. 1098 and 1167 together. The school planning section of my Department is in receipt of an application for major capital funding from the management authority of the school to which the Deputy refers. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale projects. Progress on the proposed works is being...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: It is difficult to give a precise answer to the Deputy's question for a number of reasons. In the first instance, a large number of families do not submit remittances until very shortly before, or even after the new school year is under way, and this has been the case this year. In addition, a large number of new applications on behalf of eligible children, catchment boundary children and...
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: In the case of a new primary school, the enrolment required for the appointment of the first mainstream class teacher in the first year of operation is 20 pupils. This enrolment must be achieved by 30 September. The school referred to by the Deputy is a new school which opened in September 2005. The board of management of the school has projected an enrolment of 20 pupils on 30 September 2005...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The school planning section of my Department does not have an active application for additional classrooms from the school to which the Deputy refers. However, it is understood that an extension comprising classrooms was recently built at the school which is a private, fee paying facility.
- Written Answers — Languages Programme: Languages Programme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The review of circular 12/96 is ongoing. It is expected that the review will be completed and a revised circular issued to schools in the current school term.
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I am aware of the case referred to by the Deputy concerning the allocation of a resource teacher for Travellers post for pupils in the school in question. The school in question has the services of a shared RTT post which is currently based in another school in the area. My Department's inspectorate has recently reviewed the needs of all Traveller pupils in the area concerned and has...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The work of the HEA, National Office for Equity of Access to Higher Education is directed towards facilitating increasingly inclusive and equitable access to higher education from amongst under-represented groups in the sector, including persons with a disability. This work includes managing the access strand of the HEA strategic initiative fund which has supported the development of core...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: My Department reviewed the file on the child concerned in the last school year and based on the documentation submitted to my Department it was determined that the child concerned falls into the high incidence disability category. As the Deputy is aware, a new general allocation system has been announced under which schools have been provided with resource teaching hours, based on their...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1106 and 1117 together. Bus Ãireann administers the school transport scheme, including the planning of bus routes, on behalf of my Department. In general, Bus Ãireann plans routes in such a way as to ensure that, as far as possible, no eligible child will have more than 2.4 kilometres to travel to a pick-up-point. Pupils living off the route of a service are...