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Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: As Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills I do not have a role in the administration of individual cases. The administration of individual cases is a day-to-day matter for FÁS as part of its responsibility under the Labour Services Act 1987.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I met with a delegation from the Salesian College College,Pallaskenery, Co. Limerick on 16th June. The matters discussed are currently under consideration and I will be glad to communicate with the Deputy when there are further developments in the matter.

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department generally only holds records on those former residents of Industrial & Reformatory Schools that were placed there by way of a Court hearing. There are many other institutions, some of which are listed on the Schedule to the Redress Act, in respect of which my Department had no invovlement and, as a consequence, would not maintain any...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The responsibility for day to day management of schools is at local school level. Schools are required to take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of pupils and to participate in supervising pupils when the pupils are on the school premises, during school time and/or on school activities. In accordance with the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989, it is the...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Under the terms of the 2002 Indemnity Agreement, eighteen Congregations agreed to make a contribution of €128 million towards the cost of the Redress Scheme. This sum was broken down as follows: Property Transfers €76.86m; Cash Contribution €41.14m; Provision of Counselling Services €10.00m. In actual terms, whilst the overall figure of €128 million has not altered, the form in...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for allocating resource teachers and special needs assistants to schools to support children with special needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. I have arranged for the...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The assessment of means under my Department's third level student maintenance grant schemes is based on gross income from all sources, with specified social welfare and health service executive payments being excluded from the calculation. For student grants purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances either as students dependent on parents or a legal guardian, or as...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that details of 1490 successful applicants under the current Summer Works Scheme were announced on 19 April, 2010 and published on my Department's website, www.education.ie. Eight applications were received from schools in the Dublin 15 area and six of these were successful. I set out below a list of successful and unsuccessful applications under the...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Fingal County Council have advised that the negotiations in relation to the acquisition of a site for the school in question have concluded. My Department, as sought by the local authority, has arranged to provide funding to the Council to enable the transaction to be completed which is being acquired under the Fingal Model Agreement. Due to the commercial sensitivities relating to site...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Forward Planning Section of my Department is in the process of carrying out detailed analysis of over 40 identified locations of highest population growth in order to identify the school accommodation requirements up to and including the school year 2014/2015. Given the increase in the birth rate in recent years the initial focus of this analysis is on primary school accommodation...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Information in respect of the current school building programme along with all assessed applications for major capital works, is available on my Department's website at www.education.ie. The priority attaching to individual projects is determined by published prioritisation criteria, which were formulated following consultation with the Education Partners. There are four band ratings under...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: My Department records numbers of rented prefabricated buildings on a county by county basis. There are currently 304 prefabricated units being rented by 110 schools throughout Dublin city and county. I include a table of these units on a school by school basis for the Deputy's information. SCHOOLS RENTING PREFABS IN DUBLIN CITY AND COUNTY - (PRIMARY & POSTPRIMARY) 2010 Roll...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The information requested by the Deputy on the number of staff employed in schools in Dublin 15 is not readily available in the requested format.

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: A reply from the former Minister for Education and Science Mr. Batt O' Keeffe T.D. issued to the candidate referred to by the Deputy on the 7th of October 2009. Clause 2.2 of the Higher Education Grants Scheme provides that a candidate is not eligible to hold a grant if s/he holds: "(i) a scholarship/grant awarded by another Local Authority, a Vocational Education Committee or the...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 626 and 627 together. Chapter 11(n) of the Primary Board of Management Information Manual, issued in 2007 to all members of Boards of Management of primary schools, refers to the rights of pupils and parents regarding religious instruction. It states that the State shall not oblige parents in violation of their conscience and lawful preference to send their...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I can inform the Deputy that a psychologist from my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) conducted an educational assessment on the pupil referred to in this question on 17th June, 2010. A feedback meeting on the assessment findings was held between the psychologist and the school authorities and parents in question on 21st June. A formal report on the matter is...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The candidate referred to by the Deputy was awarded the full non-adjacent rate of grant for the 2009 academic year. I understand that the candidate did not qualify for the Special Rate of maintenance grant as total reckonable income in this case exceeded the qualifying threshold and the awarding authority's decision in this regard was upheld on appeal by my Department. If there has since...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools are published annually on my Department's website. Department Circular 0015/2009 set out the resources available to schools for language support (EAL) and is also available on the Department website. Under present arrangements a school can be allocated up to 4 language support teachers. Additional support is also available for those...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I have arranged for officials of my Department to provide the information requested directly to the person named by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (6 Jul 2010)

Mary Coughlan: As the Deputy may be aware, historically, it was church authorities rather than the State that acquired the vast majority of land for educational purposes. In the recent past, the Department relied primarily on the Office of Public Works (OPW) to source and acquire suitable lands for schools. More recently the Department has utilised a number of avenues to acquire land, including the VEC...