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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The staffing appeal process at primary level includes the provision whereby schools with a high concentration of pupils requiring English as an additional language (EAL) can apply for further additional temporary language support posts. The appeal criteria are set out in Circular 0007/2014. The school referred to by the Deputy submitted an appeal under the EAL criterion to the Primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The staffing appeal process at primary level includes the provision whereby schools with a high concentration of pupils requiring English as an additional language (EAL) can apply for further additional temporary language support posts. The appeal criteria are set out in Circular 0007/2014. The school referred to by the Deputy submitted an appeal under the EAL criterion to the Primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My officials have replied to a representation made by a concerned parent to my office recently regarding the matter at the school in question. While this Department sets out the constitution of Boards of Management and rules of procedure it is not directly involved in the management of schools. Under the provisions of the Education Act, 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Suspension (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As I outlined previously the focus in the education sector is on meeting the demand for additional school places. Consequently, there is no funding provided at this time in the 2014 capital allocation for the payment of a Minor Works Grant to primary schools. I would point out that the Minor Works Grant was issued last November to all primary schools with full recognition in respect of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department has examined the level of demand for junior infant places in the Swords area and in that regard has also been in contact with the schools concerned. The Deputy will appreciate that in view of constraints on my Department's capital budget imposed by the need to meet demographic demand, it is important that school size is monitored and that a balance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) that the student referred to by the Deputy made an application for the 2014/15 academic year and subsequently appealed the initial decision. If an individual applicant considers that she/he has been unjustly refused a student grant, or that the rate of grant awarded is not the correct one, she/he may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The guidelines referred to by the Deputy were published in 2005 at a time when a separate additional allocation was given to schools for guidance provision. My Department published Circular 0009/2012 – Staffing Arrangements in post-primary schools for the 2012/13 school year in February, 2012 to inform all post primary school management of the staffing arrangements for the 2012/13...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Education about active citizenship is an integral component of the new Framework for Junior Cycle. For example, one of the 24 'Statements of Learning', that encompass the key knowledge and skills that students will develop during their junior cycle, requires that all students will "value what it means to be an active citizen with rights and responsibilities in local and wider context". In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Report of the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector made a series of recommendations in relation to this area. Among the recommendations, were those relating to areas of stable population. The Report recommended that in such areas, where there is evidence of demand for different types of patronage, this demand could be met by divesting patronage of existing schools. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department provides funding to schools towards the cost of assistive technology for pupils in Primary, Post Primary and Special schools for personal computers and specialist software for educational purposes under the Assistive Technology scheme, as set out in my Department's Circular 0010/2013. I can advise the Deputy that an application for assistive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Major School Building Project referred to by the Deputy is currently at Stage 2(a) of Architectural Planning. Following a Stage 2a Stakeholders Meeting in May 2014, it was necessary for the Design Team to submit further details and documentation to the School Authorities and the Department. This submission is currently under review in my Department. Once the review has been completed,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) published its Report on a Proposed New Model for Allocating Teachers for Students with Special Educational Needs on Wednesday 18th June 2014. This report is available at www.ncse.ie. The report has recommended that a new allocation model should be developed for schools based on two components: a school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The detailed information sought by the Deputy is not readily available. The most recent information available relates to March 2014 when a total of 282 retired teachers were employed by the managerial authorities of schools. One hundred and forty nine retired primary teachers and one hundred and thirty three retired voluntary secondary and community and comprehensive teachers were employed....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (1 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. Where children have significant care needs whereby they may need additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I attach a spreadsheet containing a list of all Primary schools given recognition by my Department since 2007. This list contains the address and roll number of each school. Two of these schools were designated as DEIS Band 1 schools. Regarding the phone numbers and email addresses of these schools, these details are available on my Department's website under the Find A School search...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The latest date which a school was granted DEIS Urban Band 1 status was 1st September 2009.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182 and 183 together. The Deputy will be aware that in accordance with the provisions of the Education Act 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school. Therefore, it is a matter for each individual school to determine its own policy in relation to the literature or information that is sent home with its pupils....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The school to which the Deputy refers appointed a Design Team in December 2006. Stage 2a (preliminary design) was approved in March 2011, and Stage 2b (detailed design/tender documents) was approved in June 2013. Contracts have recently been signed and it is anticipated that construction will commence within the next two weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The economic circumstances of the country are such that the staffing moratorium introduced across the public sector by the previous Government in 2009 has to be maintained. In contrast to other parts of the public service the higher education sector has been given significant latitude within this moratorium relative to other areas of public expenditure. An Employment Control Framework is in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (1 Jul 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The NCSE announced the allocations of SNAs to schools on 25th June. It was also announced that in September there will be over 10,900 Special Needs Assistant (SNA) posts in schools to support students with special needs for the 2014/2015 school year. The exact numbers of SNAs will become clear when enrolments of students in mainstream schools are finalised in September. A school by school...