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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Courses Applications (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Disability Access Route to Education (DARE) is a third-level admissions scheme for students with a disability. The scheme is operated by a number of higher education institutions and not by my Department. Admissions to the institutions are regulated by the institutions themselves. The Deputy may wish to contact the Irish Universities Association in this instance. Further details in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The United States is a priority market for the promotion of Irish education under the Government's International Education Strategy 2010-2015. Our education relationship with the United States is particularly important to us. In the past decade we have welcomed over 60,000 US students to Ireland. The most recent US data from the Institute of International Education, indicates that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The breakdown by location as requested by the Deputy is not readily available. Up to the end of May 2014, there have been a total of 215 appeals lodged to my Department in respect of refusals to enrol.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Colleges (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: In line with the Universities Act, 1997, universities are academically independent and my Department does not have any function in the day to day operational affairs of such colleges. UCD have full responsibility in relation to admissions criteria for this academic programme.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Relations (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department is not currently listed as a Respondent to any cases before the Labour Court, the Commission for Public Services Appointments (C.P.S.A.) or the Employment Appeals Tribunal (E.A.T.). My Department has been notified by the Equality Authority that it has been stated as the Respondent to one case initiated by a Civil Servant.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: It should be noted that the immigration permissions of all students affected by the closure of private colleges, including Eden College, have been extended by the Department of Justice and Equality to allow them to continue to work in order to support themselves and also to allow them space to make alternative arrangements. Eden College provided programmes leading to the awards of a number...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Fee Exemptions (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Candidates whose parents or guardians hold a current full medical card are exempted from paying examination entry fees. In 2013, the most recent year for which complete figures are available, some 45,000 candidates benefitted under this scheme. This represents almost 40% of all examination candidates who entered for examinations. There are no plans at present to extend the scheme beyond its...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Expenses (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The expenditure details sought by the Deputy are set out in the attached table. Travel and subsistence payments paid to Department staff are subject to regular internal and external audit. Issues arising regarding payments of this type, including matters such as those recently highlighted by the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, would be taken into account by my Department in reviewing its...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing Appeals Mechanism (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As advised previously to the Deputy in replies to PQs on the 8th and 27th of May the employer of the person to whom the Deputy refers was informed by my Department's Payroll Division on 21 March 2014 that, as the requirement for continuous service outlined in circular letter 0034/2009 had not been satisfied, a Contract of Indefinite Duration could not be awarded in this case. CID refusal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Redundancy Payments (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The person referred to by the Deputy was employed and paid by the managerial authority of the school. Officials of my Department will contact the managerial authority of the school with regard to the progression of the application for the payment of redundancy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The statutory role and functions of the Children's Ombudsman are set out under sections 8 and 9 in the Ombudsman for Children Act, 2002. The Act empowers the Children's Ombudsman to investigate the administrative procedures followed by a school board of management provided the parent has firstly and fully followed the schools complaints procedures. The key criterion for any intervention by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 257 together. The agreed procedures for the appointment of boards of management of primary schools and the rules under which these Boards operate are set out in my Department's publication "Constitution of Boards and Rules of Procedures 2011". The term of office of the current Boards of the circa 3300 primary schools will expire on 30 November 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware, a building project for the school to which he refers is included in the 5 Year Construction Plan announced in March 2012 and is scheduled to proceed to construction in 2015/16. The school's Patron has undertaken to acquire a site for the new school building. My Department has contacted the Patron's office seeking an update on the site acquisition and a response...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Proposed Legislation (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Eligibility under the Residential institutions Statutory Fund Act is currently confined to those former residents who received awards from the Residential Institutions Redress Board or equivalent Court awards or settlements. During the passage of this legislation through the Houses of Oireachtas, I gave an undertaking to review the operation of the Fund two years after its establishment in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand the Deputy is referring to the filling of administrative vacancies in an Institute of Technology. Such vacancies are filled from the Local Government Common Recruitment Pool, the arrangements for which are set out in Department of Environment Circular 55/1982. Any further queries in relation to this matter should be referred directly to the relevant Institute of Technology.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The information on the programme in question is held by SOLAS and I have asked them to provide the data requested directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Expenditure (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The information on the programmes in question is held by SOLAS and I have asked them to provide the data requested directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Places (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The information on the programme in question is held by SOLAS and I have asked them to provide the data requested directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The information on the programme in question is held by SOLAS and I have asked them to provide the data requested directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (17 Jun 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Under the new Junior Cycle Framework students will be expected to cover 24 'Statements of Learning' which encompass key knowledge and skills. One of these statements is to learn "to value what it means to be an active citizen with rights and responsibilities in local and wider context". As students will be expected to fulfil this statement, it is anticipated that education for active...