Results 19,781-19,800 of 20,682 for speaker:Mary Hanafin
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (10 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I understand from the relevant vocational education committee that the pupil referred to by the Deputy is enrolled and in attendance at a post-primary school. Where a pupil with special educational needs enrols in a post-primary school, it is open to the school to apply for additional teaching support and-or special needs assistant support for the pupil. My Department allocates additional...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: An application for temporary accommodation to facilitate increasing enrolments has been received from the school authority to which the Deputy refers. All applications for temporary accommodation for the 2005-06 school year are currently being assessed in the school planning section of my Department. I intend to publish a list of the successful applicants shortly. The school referred to by...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: An application for temporary accommodation to facilitate increasing enrolments has been received from the school authority to which the Deputy refers. All applications for temporary accommodation for the 2005-06 school year are currently being assessed in the school planning section of my Department. I intend to publish a list of the successful applicants shortly. The school referred to by...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (10 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: My Department has not received an application for capital funding from either the junior or senior school referred to by the Deputy. However, officials in the school planning section of my Department are reviewing the overall primary educational needs of the area in which both schools are situated. As the Deputy is aware, a new school planning model involving published area development plans...
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (10 Feb 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 — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The special class for autism has the services of one classroom teacher and two special needs assistants to cater for six pupils. My Department is considering an application for an additional special needs assistant at the school and a decision will be conveyed to the school as quickly as possible.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: My Department meets regularly with the planning department of South Dublin County Council with a view to identifying the need for additional educational provision and reserving sites for schools, where required. Arising from this process, sites for primary school purposes have been reserved in the Ballycullen and Fortunestown areas. A decision on the provision of any new schools in these...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The project to which the Deputy refers is listed for proceeding to tender and construction over the next 12 to 15 months. My Department's building unit held general information meetings for all schools due to go to tender and construction in the next 12 to 15 months to guide them through the process involved in moving projects to tender and construction. These meetings took place on 31...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy will be aware, a new school planning model involving published area development plans is being piloted in five areas over the current school year. Laytown is included in the pilot scheme as part of an overall plan for the north Dublin, east Meath, south Louth area. The need for a new post-primary school in that area will be considered in this context. The purpose of this new...
- Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: My Department has received an application for the recognition of a new primary school in Laytown, County Meath, for September 2005. As the Deputy may be aware, the new schools advisory committee, which was established in 2002, independently assesses and makes recommendations to me on all applications for the recognition of new primary schools. Decisions in respect of applications for the...
- Written Answers — Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol Abuse (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: My Department will make direct contact with the Deputy shortly with the information requested.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The project at the school to which the Deputy refers has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria, which were revised following consultation with the education partners. All available information was taken into consideration in the context of this assessment. Progress on the project is being considered in the context of the school building programme. In this...
- Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The issue of the reckoning of casual and non-casual teaching service for the purpose of incremental credit has been the subject of discussions at the teachers conciliation council. As no agreement has been reached the issue is now being referred for arbitration in accordance with the terms of the revised conciliation and arbitration scheme for teachers. My Department is not in a position to...
- Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The complement of the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, has increased from 43 psychologists â 30 in permanent full-time posts and 13 on secondment â on the date of establishment to 128 in January 2005, plus two psychologists on career break and one on assignment to another section of the Department. Recruitment of psychologists has, until recently, been undertaken by the...
- Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (9 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I attach the information requested by the Deputy as an Excel spread sheet. The schools listed as NEPS schools in the spreadsheet have NEPS psychologists directly assigned to them and have access to the full NEPS service. All schools that do not currently have NEPS psychologists assigned to them may avail of the scheme for commissioning psychological assessments, whereby the school can have an...
- Written Answers — Departmental Responsibility: Departmental Responsibility (8 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: My Department has responsibility for co-ordination of the implementation of EU directives on mutual recognition of professional qualifications under the general system insofar as regulated professions are concerned. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland is one of a number of bodies prescribed as a designated authority under the directives for the purpose of the profession and...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: As the Deputy will be aware, the staffing of a primary school is determined by reference to the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year. The actual number of mainstream posts sanctioned is determined by reference to a staffing schedule which is finalised for a particular year following discussions with the education partners. The guidelines can only be deviated...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: An extension and refurbishment project at the school to which the Deputy refers has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria, which was revised following consultation with the education partners and the project is being considered for the 2005 school building programme. The Deputy will be aware that I recently announced the first phase of the 2005 school building...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: I wish to inform the Deputy that the unit to which he refers is currently operating and receives an annual funding allocation from my Department. The unit currently caters for 24 children on the autistic spectrum and wishes to put additional accommodation in place to cater for a further six children. As the Deputy is aware the unit is located on the grounds of a primary school but operates...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Feb 2005)
Mary Hanafin: An extension project at the school to which the Deputy refers has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria, which was revised following consultation with the education partners and the project is being considered for the 2005 school building programme. The Deputy will be aware that I recently announced the first phase of the 2005 school building programme which...