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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (10 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating a quantum of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (10 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The information requested on the appointments made to State Boards in 2014 is outlined in the following table. In 2014 appointments were made to the following boards: Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA); Higher Education Authority (HEA); Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI); Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB); Residential Institutions Review Committee (RIRC); and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Statutory Instruments (10 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Since the 1st May 2014 to date I have signed 15 Statutory Instruments. The title and reference of each Statutory Instrument is set out in the following table. S.I. Number Title S.I. No. 200/2014 Student Support Regulations 2014 S.I. No. 201/2014 Student Grant Scheme 2014 S.I. No. 260/2014 Further Education and Training Act 2013 (Property Vesting Day) Order 2014 S.I. No. 261/2014...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Building Regulations Application (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: While plumbing is one of the designated trades encompassed by the statutory apprenticeship system managed by SOLAS, the issue of regulation in the construction or plumbing and heating area is not a matter for my Department. I have no intention to regulate in this area.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Complaints Procedures (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that under the Education Act 1998, legally, all schools are managed by school Boards of Management, on behalf of the school patrons or trustees. Accordingly, whereas I provide funding and policy direction for schools, neither I nor the Department have legal powers to instruct schools to follow a particular course of direction with regards to individual complaint...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The responsibility for managing access to third level places rests with the Central Applications Office (CAO) and the higher education institutions generally. The higher education institutions have delegated to the CAO the task of processing applications to their first year undergraduate courses. However, the participating institutions retain the function of making decisions on admissions....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: All QQI providers, including the college concerned, are required to have quality assurance procedures in place which include provision for the management of recognition of prior learning (RPL) and the granting of exemptions. They are also required to operate within the context of those procedures. In the case referred to by the Deputy, the college concerned contacted QQI in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As previously advised in the response to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 2 July 2014, following detailed discussions under PCW, agreement was reached and set out in my Department's Circular 18/97 which provided for the payment of allowances in respect of qualifications which hitherto did not qualify for such payment.Under the PCW agreement any recognised non graduate teacher who did not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Under the Remote Area Boarding Grand scheme, provision is made for the payment of grants in respect of pupils whose normal place of residence is outside the range of public transport services to a school providing suitable free second-level education. The scheme was introduced in conjunction with the Free Post-Primary Education scheme in the 1967/68 school year. Under the terms of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school to which he refers has an application with my Department for large scale capital funding. The current status of all schools on the school building programme may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie. The Deputy will be aware that given the need to meet demographic growth, the delivery of new schools, together with extension...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 91 and 92 together. I have made it clear in meetings with the Deputy and in responses to previous Parliamentary questions that, for compelling educational reasons and to safeguard the integrity of the patronage determination process, both the new post-primary school for Maynooth, which is due to open later this year, and the existing post-primary school will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Forward Planning Section of my Department continuously monitors and analyses demographic data for all areas of the country, including the area referred to by the Deputy, to anticipate emerging needs and to ensure that there is sufficient capacity to meet those needs. My Department's five year construction plan is focused on providing accommodation to meet demographic needs this regard....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Forward Planning Section of my Department continuously monitors and analyses demographic data for all areas of the country, including the area referred to by the Deputy, to anticipate emerging needs and to ensure that there is sufficient capacity to meet those needs. My Department's five year construction plan is focused on providing accommodation to meet demographic needs this regard....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Forward Planning Section of my Department continuously monitors and analyses demographic data for all areas of the country, including the area referred to by the Deputy, to anticipate emerging needs and to ensure that there is sufficient capacity to meet those needs. My Department's five year construction plan is focused on providing accommodation to meet demographic needs this regard....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Forward Planning Section of my Department continuously monitors and analyses demographic data for all areas of the country, including the area referred to by the Deputy, to anticipate emerging needs and to ensure that there is sufficient capacity to meet those needs. My Department's five year construction plan is focused on providing accommodation to meet demographic needs this regard....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Forward Planning Section of my Department continuously monitors and analyses demographic data for all areas of the country, including the area referred to by the Deputy, to anticipate emerging needs and to ensure that there is sufficient capacity to meet those needs. My Department's five year construction plan is focused on providing accommodation to meet demographic needs this regard....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Forward Planning Section of my Department continuously monitors and analyses demographic data for all areas of the country, including the area referred to by the Deputy, to anticipate emerging needs and to ensure that there is sufficient capacity to meet those needs. My Department's five year construction plan is focused on providing accommodation to meet demographic needs this regard....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The 5-Year Plan that I announced in March 2012 as part of a €2 billion capital investment programme, outlines the major school projects that are scheduled to commence construction over the duration of the Plan. These have been prioritised on the basis of meeting significant demographic needs. The Deputy will be aware that there are four Post-Primary school projects included in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department has not, to date, received any formal submission from parents in relation to the provision of a Gaelcholáiste for county Kildare. The Department's current five-year construction plan is focused on meeting demographic demands to ensure that every child will have access to a physical school place and that our school system is in a position to accommodate increasing pupil...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (9 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 101 and 102 together. We have a growing population of young people in this country and despite the difficult financial circumstances we face as a country, we prioritised education so that the number of teachers we have in the system has also grown in order to protect pupil teacher ratios. There are a thousand more teachers employed in schools around the...