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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Programme for Government, 'A Programme for a Partnership Government', has a commitment to enhance guidance counselling supports in our secondary schools. The current budget provides an improved staffing allocation to second level schools for the purpose of enhancing guidance provision. This improvement takes effect from next September. It brings the basis of allocation from 19:1 to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that all children with Down syndrome are entitled to receive additional teaching support either through the General Allocation systems, if the child had mild general learning difficulties, or if they had an additional low incidence disability, as set out in my Departments Circular 02/05, through an additional allocation to schools by the National Council for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: Recent years have seen an increase in the number of SNAs from 10,575 posts in 2011 to 12,040 to June 2016. In the same period the number of children accessing SNA support has grown from approximately 22,000 to some 30,000 by the end of 2015. The increase in SNA numbers has been supported by a very significant increase in the Budget for SNAs, rising from €332 million in 2011 to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: 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 the institute of technology sector, the Strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the schools to which he refers amalgamated with effect from September last. The new amalgamated school is located in the school building of one of the schools referred to.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the school in question has been allocated funding under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme to provide a mainstream classroom with en-suite toilets and a resource room.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers is at an advanced stage of the tender process. The School was authorised to issue a Letter of Intent to the preferred tenderer on 10th May. Subject to no issues arising in the supplementary tender report, it is anticipated that works will commence over the summer.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Foirne Scoile (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: Is mian liom a chur in iúl don Teachta go bhfuil méadú tar éis teacht ar líon na Cúntóirí Riachtanas Speisialta (CRSanna) le blianta beaga anuas ó 10,575 post i 2011, go 12,040 suas go Meitheamh 2016. Sa tréimhse chéanna tá líon na leanaí a fhaigheann rochtain ar thacaíocht CRS tar éis fás ó thimpeall...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Foirne Scoile (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: Is mian liom a chur in iúl don Teachta go bhfuil méadú tar éis teacht ar líon na Cúntóirí Riachtanas Speisialta (CRSanna) le blianta beaga anuas ó 10,575 post i 2011, go 12,040 suas go Meitheamh 2016. Sa tréimhse chéanna tá líon na leanaí a fhaigheann rochtain ar thacaíocht CRS tar éis fás ó thimpeall...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the school to which he refers have recently been informed that its application for additional funding has been approved.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: Up until September 2012, an ex-quota allocation was provided for guidance in addition to the standard teacher allocation to post primary schools. This resource was allocated in accordance with pupil enrolment. 42% of second-level schools at the time were allocated at least 22 hours per week in respect of guidance (22 hours being the equivalent of one teaching post) while the remainder of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The criteria used for the allocation of teaching posts for the 2016/2017 school year is set out in Circular 0007/2016. 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 30 September 2015. The staffing arrangements at primary level also include an appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to has recently applied to my Department for capital funding for improved and additional accommodation. The application concerned has been considered and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has made an application to my Department for capital funding for additional accommodation. The application is currently being assessed and a decision will be conveyed to the school authority as soon as this process is finalised.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: As part of the budgetary process in November 2011 a Government decision was taken to concentrate available educational capital resources on delivering school places and to restrict investment in higher education infrastructure to legally binding contractual commitments that existed at that time. The project referred to by the Deputy had not reached the point of being a legally binding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The "Exploring Literacy Through the Arts" Summer Camps are available to DEIS Band 1 schools and have been running since 2000 when three schools were invited to partake in a pilot project. The initiative now extends to 42 camps. The administration of the scheme is carried out on behalf of my Department by Navan Education Centre. Schools are allocated funding on the basis of clearly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) will be applied on a multi-annual basis for the years 2016 and 2017. The Deputy will be aware that details of the 197 successful school applicants in Categories 1 and 2 under the SWS (2016-2017) were announced on 28 April last, details of which are also published on my Department's website, www.education.i.e. Under SWS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy is aware that the existing Gaeltacht entry scheme to the primary Bachelor of Education allows for the reservation of up to 10% of places in the colleges of education for Gaeltacht applicants. To qualify as a Gaeltacht applicant a person must be resident in an officially designated Gaeltacht area and it must be confirmed that the normal language of the home is Irish. The 20...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) will be applied on a multi-annual basis for the years 2016 and 2017. The Deputy will be aware that details of the 197 successful school applicants in Categories 1 and 2 under the SWS (2016-2017) were announced on 28 April last, details of which are also published on my Department's website, www.education.i.e. Under SWS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Data (24 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: I wish to confirm to the Deputy that applications for the provision and upgrade of play areas submitted by schools are assessed under Category 10 of the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) in accordance with the prioritisation criteria outlined in the Circular accompanying the Scheme. I also wish to advise the Deputy that the SWS will be applied on a multi-annual basis for the years 2016 and 2017....