Stiúrtóir Naíonra á lorg – Corcaigh
August 7, 2012
Múinteoir Gaeilge agus Spáinnise
August 7, 2012
Cúntóir Naíonra – Cill Mhantáin
August 7, 2012
Guidance Note for Boards of Management
July 31, 2012
As you are aware Boards of Managements are obliged to operate Relevant Contracts Tax (RCT) and Value Added Tax (VAT) reverse charge in respect of a range of activities including Construction Projects, Summer Works, Emergency Works and Major Devolved Projects in addition to day to day Repairs.
The Revenue Commissioners have prepared a Guidance Note to assist Boards of Management with the operation of RCT and the VAT Reverse Charge.
The Guidance Note is available on the Revenue website at the following link: http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/rct/guidance-boards-rct-vat.pdf
The Guidance Note provides examples of the types of activities that fall under the definitions of “Construction Operations” as they may apply to Boards of Management. It also provides information on the operation of the VAT reverse charge and gives links to various pages on the Revenue website which will provide useful information to Boards of Management.
Tionscnamh Oidhreacht Teanga agus Deachaidrimh
July 31, 2012
Tréaslaíonn GAELSCOILEANNA TEO. le Pobail agus Pátrúin na nIarbhunscoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge Nua
July 26, 2012
AN FORAS PÁTRÚNACHTA GRANTED PATRONGAE FOR NEW GAEL-CHOLÁISTÍ
July 26, 2012
The Department of Education & Skills announces An Foras Pátrúnachta as the patron of two new Irish-Medium secondary schools opening in Dublin in 2014.
Today, the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, has announced that An Foras Pátrúnachta has been granted patronage of two new Gael-Choláistí located in Balbriggan and Dundrum in Dublin.
Caoimhín Ó hEaghra, Ard Rúnaí of An Foras Pátrúnachta spoke about the highly anticipated announcement, “An Foras Pátrúnachta welcomes the decision that it has been granted patronage of 2 new Gael-Choláistí in Balbriggan and Dundrum. It is a fantastic achievement for the parents, founding committees and all those who have relentlessly driven the campaigns for the establishment of these Gael-Choláistí. As the patron, which was specifically established to promote Irish-Medium education, we are delighted that this process allowed us to illustrate the enormous demand from parents for the model we provide.”
Ó hEaghra acknowledged and thanked the Minister, the Department and its officials for their work throughout the process. He stated that there was a clear indication from the Department that the ever increasing demand for Irish-Medium Education needed to be catered for both at primary and secondary level. Ó hEaghra went on to say that “An Foras Pátrúnachta looks forward to working with the Department in further developing the provision of Irish-Medium Education at all levels.”
The campaign for patronage of the new Gael-Choláistí gathered a lot of public attention with a huge number of parents registering their support for the new schools. An Foras Pátrúnachta is looking forward to collaborating with the Coistí Bunaithe in planning and organising for the successful opening and establishment of the schools. Ó hEaghra continued, “The founding committees have spent the last few years dedicated to the campaign for establishing these Gael-Choláistí. Everyone who has been involved is due enormous gratitude and credit for their commitment to bringing Irish-Medium second-level schools to their areas.” Tadhg Ó Tuachaigh, Chairperson of the Coiste Bunaithe for Coláiste Ghlór na Mara in Balbriggan said, “It is great news for parents and children in the area that Irish-Medium education will be available from pre-school to the Leaving Certificate.”
An Foras Pátrúnachta is currently the patron of 61 primary schools and now 5 secondary schools. The two new Gael-Choláistí will be co-educational, Multidenominational schools with an Irish language ethos. Ó hEaghra commented on the patron’s mission for its schools, “It is of paramount importance to An Foras Pátrúnachta that all our schools provide the highest standard of education through the medium of Irish.”
An Foras Pátrúnachta has also been collaborating with the founding committee in Maynooth, on a campaign for a new Gael-Choláiste in the town. The patron made an extremely strong application for a Gael-Choláiste to the Department illustrating the enormous demand from over 600 parents. Although disappointed that the Department has not sanctioned the opening of a Gael-Choláiste, An Foras Pátrúnachta welcomes the Minister’s and Department’s recognition of the demand for Irish-Medium education. The Minister’s announcement that the new English-medium second-level school will open an Aonad with a view to developing an independent Gael-Choláiste will be some solace to the parents of the area. “Although An Foras Pátrúnachta does not agree with the concept of the Aonad, the patron welcomes the Minister’s announcement indicating that An Foras Pátrúnachta will act in consultation with Kildare VEC to create a satisfactory model that will develop into an independent Gael-Choláiste.” As the only patron body established specifically to provide Irish-Medium Education, An Foras Pátrúnachta will draw on the expertise and experience within our organisation to assist with the development of the Gael-Choláiste in Maynooth.
The new Gael-Choláistí will open in September 2014 with the exact location of the schools in the designated areas to be confirmed. Parents are advised to contact An Foras Pátrúnachta for any information on the new schools.
Further information:Caitríona Bairéad, An Foras Pátrúnachta :: caitriona@foras.ie :: 01-6294110 :: www.foras.ie
AN FORAS PÁTRÚNACHTA is the largest patron of Irish medium schools in Ireland at both primary and secondary level. There are 61 primary schools and 3 secondary schools under its patronage. AN FORAS PÁTRÚNACHTA is a patron of Irish-Medium schools that have a choice of a Catholic, Multidenominational and Interdenominational (Catholic / Protestant) ethos. The vision of AN FORAS PÁTRÚNACHTA is to develop, strengthen and promote education through the medium of Irish throughout the country. AN FORAS PÁTRÚNACHTA is recognized by the Department of Education and Science as a patronage system which is acceptable and appropriate for first and second level schools. AN FORAS PÁTRÚNACHTA was founded in 1993 so that new gaelscoileanna opening in the coming years would have another choice with regard to patronage.
For more information: www.foras.ie :: @AFPatrunachta
Foras Pátrúnachta to act as patron for two new Gaelcholáistí
July 26, 2012
Two new Gaelcholáistí to open in Dundrum and Balbriggan in Dublin 2014 will have Irish language group an Foras Patrúnachta as a patron, according to details announced by Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn TD today.
The announcement was made as part of plans outlining the development and patronage of fourteen new second level schools.
Most of the new second level schools are to open in the east of the country around the Dublin commuter belt but two new schools will open in Claregalway in Co. Galway and in the southern area of Cork city.
The Minister stated that he was “confident that the new schools, along with existing schools in each area, will mean that parents and students have real choice when it comes to deciding which school most reflect their own ethos”.
The new Gaelcholáiste in Balbriggan will be smaller than envisaged and will cater for 700-1000 pupils, after a strong preference was shown amongst parents for an English medium Educate Together school as well. The Foras Pátrúnachta will serve as a patron for a new Gaelcholáiste in Dundrum.
A high level of demand for Irish medium education was expressed in Maynooth and an Irish language unit is expected to be established in the new post-primary school in Maynooth or in an existing second-level school, upon consultation with An Foras Pátrúnachta.
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Foras Pátrúnachta agus Coistí Gairmoideachais in iomaíocht
July 26, 2012
Educate Together to run second level school
July 26, 2012
Multidenominational patron Educate Together will have responsibility for a secondary school for the first time.
Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn announced the patrons for 14 new post-primary schools yesterday. Educate Together will run a school in Blanchardstown, west Dublin, and will share patronage of a school in Drogheda, Co Louth, with Co Louth Vocational Education Committee (VEC).
Some eight other schools will also be under the care of VECs in Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Meath and Cork. Gaelscoileanna body An Foras Pátrúnachta will become patron to two schools, and the Church of Ireland and Le Chéile Schools Trust, a Catholic organisation, will have responsibility for one school each in Greystones, Co Wicklow, and Mulhuddart, Dublin 15, respectively. All 14 of the schools will be co-educational.
Groups that missed out on patronage included the Loreto Education Trust, which applied to open a school in Ashbourne, Co Meath, and the Marist Education Authority, which sought patronage in Dundalk, Co Louth.
Applications from The Edmund Rice Schools Trust in Drogheda, the Muslim Primary Education Board in Blanchardstown and the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Navan, Co Meath, were also turned down.
Four of the new schools, all VECs, will open in September 2013, and 10 will open the following September. Applications for school patronage closed in February. Patrons were asked for evidence of parental demand and plans for how the proposed schools would provide for extending or strengthening diversity of provision in each area.
There were 31 applicants.
The Department of Education assessed the applications, made recommendations and forwarded the assessments to the New Schools Establishment Group, which was set up by the Minister as an independent advisory body.
It examined and agreed with conclusions reached by the department, and wrote to the Minister in June this year with its recommendations. Mr Quinn made the final decision on patronage.
Yesterday the Minister said that in deciding on patronage he “was particularly conscious of taking into account the clear parental demand for plurality and diversity of patronage”.
“I am particularly pleased that Educate Together will be patron in one school and co-patron in a second school, given that Educate Together was officially recognised by me as a second-level patron just one year ago,” he said.
“I am also pleased that for the first time in a generation a new Catholic and a new Church of Ireland voluntary secondary school are to open. This demonstrates clearly that I and the department are committed to diversity of ethos and respect for parental choice.”
He said he was confident the new schools, alongside existing schools in each area, would mean parents and students would have “real choice”.
The Minister’s announcement was widely welcomed by the appointed patrons. Paul Rowe, chief executive of Educate Together said the need for innovation at second-level has never been more urgent.
“These new schools will nurture critical and creative thinking and ethical citizenship – developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes students need to live, learn and work in modern, globalised societies,” he said.
Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough, The Most Rev Dr Michael Jackson said the Minister’s decision on the Greystones school “demonstrated a recognition that faith-based schools still have a role to play in Irish education”.
Caoimhín Ó hEaghra, chief executive of An Foras Pátrúnachta, said their appointment as patrons was “a fantastic achievement” for the parents, founding committees and all those who had “relentlessly” campaigned.
And Co Dublin VEC chief executive Dr Marie Griffin said their new community college in Lusk would be among the most modern in the State.
NEW SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND THEIR PATRON BODIES
- Blanchardstown West, Dublin 15: Educate Together (September 2014)
- Drogheda, Co Louth: joint patronage of Co Louth VEC and Educate Together (September 2014)
- Mulhuddart, Dublin 15: Le Chéile Schools Trust (September 2014)
- Greystones, Co Wicklow: Church of Ireland (September 2014)
- Lusk, Co Dublin: Co Dublin VEC (September 2013)
- Claregalway, Co Galway: Co Galway VEC (September 2013)
- Naas, Co Kildare: Co Kildare VEC (September 2013)
- Navan, Co Meath: Co Meath VEC (September 2013)
- Cork City – South Suburbs/ Carrigaline: Co Cork VEC (September 2014)
- Maynooth, Co Kildare: Co Kildare VEC (September 2014)
- Dundalk, Co Louth: Co Louth VEC (September 2014)
- Ashbourne, Co Meath: Co Meath VEC (September 2014)
- Balbriggan, Co Dublin: An Foras Pátrúnachta (September 2014)
- Dundrum, Co Dublin: An Foras Pátrúnachta (September 2014)
