Written answers
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Department of Education and Science
Computerisation Programme
9:00 pm
Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1401: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to maximise the use of information technology to cut down on administration and put a database in place to track primary pupils. [47959/08]
Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Consideration is being given to the timing and resource requirements of a Learner Database to be introduced initially at Primary level and then rolled out to Second-level. It is intended to proceed, as soon as resources permit, with a live on-line system allowing for easy exchange of information that reflects the up-to-date situation in regard to enrolment at any one time and to cut down on administrative burden and the scale of paper-based information flows across the Department and its associated agencies. These developments will build on the existing On Line Claim System (O.L.C.S.) which already allows each primary school and Voluntary Secondary, Community and Comprehensive school through ESINET to record absences and submit claims to the Department for the payment of casual and non casual teachers and Special Needs Assistants. The process of manual form filling at school level and manual data input at Department level has been reduced as a result of OLCS.
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