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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Qualifications Recognition (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Courses for Dental Nursing and Dental Hygiene are offered at levels 5 to 7 on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) either through the CAO or through direct application to the Institution in question. The National Framework of Qualifications is maintained by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) as a system of levels of awards. A wide range of awarding bodies, including the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department provides an extensive range of supports for pupils with Specific Speech and Language Disorder (SSLD). This includes provision for the establishment of special classes for pupils with SSLD in primary schools. Applications to establish such classes are considered by the school's assigned Special Educational Needs Organiser (SENO) and those meeting the criteria for establishment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department provides for a range of placement options for pupils with special educational needs in order to ensure that all pupils can receive a school placement. Many pupils with special educational needs will be able to attend a local mainstream school, whereas for pupils who have needs which require more specialist interventions, special class and special school placements are provided...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The project referred to by the Deputy is currently at an early stage of Architectural Planning. The Design Team were appointed in August 2013. Following a request by the Board of Management the Schedule of Accommodation has been revised and was recently issued to the school. The Design Team are working on finalising the Pre Stage 1 documents for presentation to my Department. This meeting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that 15 additional classrooms were put in place in the area to which he refers for the 2013/2014 school year onward following the completion of two new 16 classroom school buildings for a Gaelscoil and an Educate Together school. Devolved funding has also been made available for the provision of a further 5 mainstream classrooms to cater for accommodation needs in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 237 to 239, inclusive, together. These issues are operational matters for SOLAS. I have made enquires and I am informed that the final decision to cease funding of Drogheda Community Training Centre (CTC) was made by SOLAS in April 2014. This decision was taken following a review of learning outcomes and value for money. Funding for Drogheda CTC will cease as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware, the Department's priority is to target its limited capital budget for the provision of additional school accommodation in identified areas of demographic growth. Major school building projects, including for the school referred to by the Deputy, that are not included in the current Five Year Construction Programme, will continue to be progressed subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 241 and 272 together. The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing arrangements for the 2014/15...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department devolved very significant funding to the school, referred to by the Deputy, in 2010 and 2011 to provide additional general classrooms, specialist rooms and ancillary accommodation to meet the schools accommodation needs. As the Deputy is aware, the primary aim at the core of the Five Year Construction Plan is focussed on meeting additional demographic demands to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The specific information sought by the Deputy is not readily available. However, the Deputy can be assured that my Department fully recognises the key role of physical exercise within the school environment and continues to respond to the need to improve PE facilities for all pupils attending schools within the constraints of the available funding I wish to advise the Deputy that the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. Arrangements for panel access for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand that officials from my Department were in contact with the person referred to by the Deputy and that the matter is now resolved.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: It is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998. In this regard a Board of Management may find it necessary to restrict enrolment to children from a particular area or a particular age group or on the basis of some other criterion. The criteria to be applied by schools in such circumstances are a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is not in receipt of any application or proposal from the school in question. It is open to the Board of Management to submit an application to my Department for consideration. Any application received will be considered in the context of competing demands on my Departments capital budget: the main priority of which is the provision of essential...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Weight of Schoolbags (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The report of the Working Group on the Weight of School Bags recognised that many of the solutions to this issue belong at local school level and made various recommendations in this regard, such as optimum use of storage facilities, developing pupil organisation skills and timetabling. My Department issued circulars to all primary and post-primary schools in 2005 to highlight the potential...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The review of the Visiting Teacher Service was carried out in response to policy advice from the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) in May 2013, which recommended that the service should be reviewed. Accordingly, my Department commissioned an independent review of the service in line with the NCSE recommendations. The reviewers provided a draft report to my Department earlier this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: In June 2011, I announced that some 20 new post primary schools are to be established up to 2017 to cater for increasing demographics across a number of locations. That announcement did not include a proposal to establish a new post-primary school for the Dublin 7, 9 and 11 areas. The Department's current five-year construction plan is focused on meeting demographic demands to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: On 14 May 2014 the school referred to by the Deputy was approved a devolved grant under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme for the provision of a mainstream classroom, a multi-sensory room and a resource room.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: Three primary schools are expected to open this September under the primary school patronage divesting process, with Educate Together as patron. While permanent buildings are not yet available for these schools, I have given the go-ahead for them in temporary start-up accommodation in order to meet parental demand for greater choice of primary schools as soon as possible. The transfer of a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading...