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Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (21 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Since its formal launch in December 2003, the aim of the National Educational Welfare Board has been to provide a service to the most disadvantaged areas and most at-risk groups. Five regional teams have been established with bases in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford and staff have been deployed in areas of greatest disadvantage and in areas designated under the Government's RAPID...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (21 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The property management section of the Office of Public Works, is acting on behalf of my Department with regard to the acquisition of a site for the school referred to by the Deputy. In the course of its duties that office would make contact with the town council. Seven sites are currently under consideration as a location for this particular school. Due to the commercial sensitivities of...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I can confirm that an application for five hours resource teaching support and a full-time special needs assistant, SNA, was considered by my Department. As the Deputy is aware, a letter issued to the school in September 2004 advising that three and a half hours resource teaching support was sanctioned. The school authorities were also advised recently that this pupil did not meet the...

Written Answers — Parental Leave Provisions: Parental Leave Provisions (21 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Under maternity protection legislation all employees in the public bodies under the aegis of my Department are entitled to 18 weeks' paid maternity leave and eight weeks' additional unpaid maternity leave. Any changes to paid maternity leave arrangements would be an issue for the Government as a whole. My Department does not have an estimate of the cost of extending parental leave as...

Written Answers — Public Capital Programme: Public Capital Programme (21 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 240 to 242, inclusive, together. A total of 122.23 whole-time equivalent staff are assigned to the planning and building unit of my Department on work related to the public capital programme for the education sector, of whom 90 are in administrative grades and 32.23 are in professional and technical grades. These figures represent an increase of 29% on the...

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Bill 2005: Order for Second Stage. (21 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce to the House the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Bill 2005. The Bill amends the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000 and the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 and establishes a statutory body to administer a €12.7 million education fund for former residents of institutions and...

Written Answers — Third Level Funding: Third Level Funding (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Details of capital and recurrent funding provided to each institute of technology in the ten year period from 1995 to 2004 are set out in the following documents. Institutes of technology are not funded on a per-student basis. The annual budget for each IT is at present allocated on the basis of its total pay and non-pay requirements following consideration of its annual programmes and budget...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: As part of a review of all projects for the 2005 capital programme, an application for capital funding from the school referred to by the Deputy was assessed against the published prioritisation criteria for large-scale building projects which were revised last year following consultation with the education partners. Under this review all projects were assigned a band rating and the progress...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 303 and 304 together. I will arrange for a response to these queries to be forwarded to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The site for the development of the school to which the Deputy refers is being acquired by my Department under the terms of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002. When the acquisition has been finalised, consideration can be given to including the project in the capital programme from 2005 onwards.

Written Answers — Children Act 2001: Children Act 2001 (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Part 10 of the Children Act 2001 relates to the governance and operation of children detention schools. Section 159(1) of the Act has been developed for the purpose of allowing three representatives of children detention schools to be appointed to the special residential services board. Part 10 of the Act cannot be developed more fully at this time as its effect will include replacing the...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: In light of the reality that pupils in the high incidence disability categories of mild and borderline mild general learning disability and dyslexia are distributed throughout the education system, my Department, in consultation with educational interests, developed a general model of resource teacher allocation to schools to support students in these disability categories. This model, which...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The decision on eligibility for third level and further education grants is a matter for the relevant local authority or VEC. These bodies do not refer individual applications to my Department except, in exceptional cases, where advice or instruction regarding a particular clause in the relevant scheme is desired. Under the prescribed terms and conditions of my Department's student...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The numbers of teachers in service at primary level on 30 June of each year from 1999 to 2004 are: 1999 — 21,258; 2000 — 21,850; 2001 — 22,850; 2002 — 23,935; 2003 — 24,700; and 2004 — 26,039 The information that the Deputy requested regarding schools in the Dublin 24 area is not readily available in my Department. If the Deputy would like information on a particular school, I...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: There are two staff who are not civil servants but who are appointed to full-time posts in my office in the Department of Education and Science. The names and salaries of these staff are: special adviser to the Minister, Ms Averil Power, salary €71,990 per annum; and personal assistant to the Minister, Mr. Carl Gibney, salary €46,119 per annum. Each of the above staff has a standard...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: As requested by the Deputy, the following home and foreign travel and subsistence payments were made during 2004 to staff in specific posts in ministerial offices in my Department: Minister, Deputy Hanafin, 29 September — 31 December 2004: Averil Power, special adviser, foreign travel and subsistence —€828.90; and Geraldine Butler, press officer, foreign travel and subsistence...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The mainstream staffing of a primary school is determined by applying the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year to a staffing schedule, agreed between my Department and the education partners. Under current arrangements, the enrolment figure required for the appointment of up to the eleventh mainstream class teacher and the retention of up to the twelfth...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The property management section of the Office of Public Works, which acts on behalf of my Department for site acquisitions generally, has identified a site which could provide for the long-term accommodation needs of the school referred to by the Deputy. Negotiations are ongoing regarding the acquisition of this site. However, the building of a new school on a greenfield site is only one...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Hanafin: In light of the reality that pupils in the high incidence disability categories of mild and borderline mild general learning disability and dyslexia are distributed throughout the education system, my Department, in consultation with educational interests, developed a general model of resource teacher allocation to schools to support students in these disability categories. This model, which...