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Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Provision of individual psychological assessments is part of the work of the educational psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service. The psychologists do not keep waiting lists of children requiring assessment. School authorities refer children for assessment and discuss the relative urgency of each case during the psychologist's visits. This allows the psychologists to...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Provision of individual psychological assessments is part of the work of the educational psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS. The psychologists do not keep waiting lists of children requiring assessment in the sense of lists of names that are dealt with in chronological order. School authorities refer children for assessment and discuss the relative urgency...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The work of the educational psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, includes casework with individual children. This may involve individual psychometric assessment, provision of advice and recommendations to teachers and parents on meeting the child's needs and occasionally some short term counselling support. Counselling would be in the context of less serious...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The property management section of the Office of Public Works, which acts on behalf of my Department in relation to site acquisitions generally, has identified a site which could provide for the long term accommodation needs of the school referred to by the Deputy. However, the building of a new school on a greenfield site is only one option being considered by my Department. A second option,...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together. 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. In accordance with the staffing schedule, the staffing of the school referred to by the Deputy for the 2004-05 school...

Written Answers — State Property: State Property (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The Dáil Select Committee on Education and Science concluded Committee Stage of the Grangegorman Development Agency Bill on 16 December 2004. In February 2005 I received correspondence from the Dublin Inner City Partnership regarding its wish to be represented on the agency. The purpose of this Bill is to establish an agency whose function, in the first instance, is to prepare a strategic...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Mar 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. The system for allocating teachers to primary schools is based on ensuring an overall maximum class of 29 in each school. Where some classes in a school have class sizes of...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that 23.3 hours special needs assistant support per week has been sanctioned for the pupil in question. A letter confirming this issued to the school authorities on 18 March 2005.

Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has not received any notification that the person referred to by the Deputy has been refused enrolment to a second level school. Officials from the Department have contacted the National Educational Welfare Board, NEWB, the statutory agency which can assist parents who are experiencing difficulty in securing a school place for their child. I understand that the NEWB has not...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Any time.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (23 Mar 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. In accordance with the staffing schedule, the mainstream staffing of the school referred to by the Deputy for the school year 2004 to 2005 is a principal and 20 mainstream...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy may be aware that the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, which has been operational since 1 January 2005, is responsible for processing applications for special educational needs, SEN, supports. Some 71 special educational needs organisers, SENOs, have been recruited throughout the country and will be a focal point of contact for schools and parents. My Department...

Written Answers — School Discipline: School Discipline (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department has provided guidelines to boards of management to assist them in discharging their obligations in the area of school discipline. These guidelines, which issued in 1991, were drawn up following consultation with representatives of management, teachers and parents, and are sufficiently flexible to allow each school authority to adapt them to suit the particular needs of the...

Written Answers — Bullying in Schools: Bullying in Schools (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: My Department issued guidelines on countering bullying behaviour to all primary and post-primary schools in 1993. The purpose of the guidelines is to assist schools in devising school-based measures to prevent and deal with instances of bullying behaviour and to increase awareness of the problem among school management authorities, staff, pupils and parents. The guidelines remind school...

Written Answers — School Supervision: School Supervision (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Sections 14, 15 and 23 of the Education Act 1998 assigns each board of management and principal teacher responsibility for the day-to-day management of schools at both primary and post-primary level. Principals should organise supervision for the order and general behaviour of pupils during school hours. In particular, they should organise and participate in the effective supervision of the...

Written Answers — Linguistic Institute of Ireland: Linguistic Institute of Ireland (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 258 to 260, inclusive, together. At an extraordinary general meeting of Institiúd Teangealaíochta Éireann, held on 18 July 2003, the company agreed to initiate a process of voluntary liquidation. This decision was a matter for the members in accordance with the memorandum and articles of association and relevant company law. I understand that a meeting of...

Written Answers — Mobile Telephony: Mobile Telephony (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The Deputy will be aware that the drafting of planning and development regulations is a matter for the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government and the siting of individual mobile phone masts is a matter for the relevant planning authority. The issue referred to in the details supplied by the Deputy is a matter for the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources....

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The decision on eligibility for third level 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, for example, advice or instruction regarding a particular clause in the relevant scheme is desired. It appears that no such advice or instruction has, to date, been sought in the case of...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: Arising from the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001, a part-time fully qualified teacher employed for the full school year to provide teaching for a specified number of hours during each week, may be awarded a pro rata contract. A pro rata contract will normally run from 1 September to 31 August. A letter has recently issued from my Department to the VEC concerned confirming...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Hanafin: The property management section of the OPW, which acts on behalf of my Department in relation to site acquisitions is currently in negotiations regarding the acquisition of a site for the provision of a new primary school at Mell, Drogheda, County Louth. The Department will keep the school authority informed of developments.