Results 181-200 of 235 for going forward speaker:Norma Foley

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Múinteoirí Nuacháilithe agus a gCaighdeáin Gaeilge, Deontais le hÁbhar Oidí a thabhairt faoi Thréimhsí Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht mar chuid dá n-Oiliúint agus Curaclaim nua na hardteistiméireachta T1 agus T2: An Roinn Oideachais. (30 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: Ná habair é. Maidir leis na deontais, from the point of view of the grants, and I acknowledge and appreciate that the Deputy has said gur maith an rud é go bhfuil siad ar ais, that it is good that they are back. It was an extraordinary achievement le linn na paindéime, to be able to provide oideachas ar líne for students. The Deputy will note that I acknowledged...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Múinteoirí Nuacháilithe agus a gCaighdeáin Gaeilge, Deontais le hÁbhar Oidí a thabhairt faoi Thréimhsí Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht mar chuid dá n-Oiliúint agus Curaclaim nua na hardteistiméireachta T1 agus T2: An Roinn Oideachais. (30 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: Ar an gcéad dul síos, tá a fhios agam agus aontaím leis an Teachta Ó Cuív, nach bhfuil cúrsa ar líne chomh héifeachtach agus turas go dtí an Ghaeltacht. Tuigim é sin. Bhí an phaindéim faoi lán seoil agus ní raibh an dara rogha againn. Is rud maith é deis mar sin a thabhairt do na daltaí. It was a good...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Múinteoirí Nuacháilithe agus a gCaighdeáin Gaeilge, Deontais le hÁbhar Oidí a thabhairt faoi Thréimhsí Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht mar chuid dá n-Oiliúint agus Curaclaim nua na hardteistiméireachta T1 agus T2: An Roinn Oideachais. (30 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: Tuigim. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil daoine neirbhíseach agus go bhfuil imní ann freisin. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil dearcadh amháin ag dream amháin agus dearcadh eile ag dream eile. Tá sé an-chasta ar fad. Is maith an rúd é that the process is ongoing and the widest spectrum of views and opinions will be included in that. All of the points...

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Norma Foley: ...class of 2021 to complete their schooling and to progress to the next chapter of their lives. This progression and transition is one of the recognised milestones in so many students' lives, going back many years. It is one of the traditions for so many students. This Bill, when enacted, will confer new or additional powers on the SEC, the body which has managed and operated the State...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 May 2021)

Norma Foley: ...'s infection control measures. The Tusla Education Support Service, TESS, continues to engage with students and families identified by schools as needing additional support, and will remain in ongoing contact with school principals to identify students who may need support going forward. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Tusla has adopted a child welfare approach to all engagement...

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Norma Foley: I thank Senator Buttimer and appreciate his particular interest, and ongoing engagement, on matters of education. I suggest that many of the points he made are outside the scope of this Bill. Be that as it may, I acknowledge that, and I said previously and last Friday, there are learnings in everything from Covid and I am in no doubt that there are learnings in terms of all that we have...

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate Examinations) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 May 2021)

Norma Foley: ...powers on the SEC, the Bill allows me as Minister to ensure we can bring some normality to the lives of students in these most unusual and even unprecedented times. As a country we are now looking forward to reopening and returning to so much that we have had to pause since spring 2020, and so too can the students of the leaving certificate for 2021 now look forward positively. I have...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...rooms and so forth. There is not, therefore, a specific comparability. I want to make it clear, however, that there has been a significant increase in funding this year for the primary school sector going forward. There has been significant additionality even in terms of initiatives that have been brought in, whether it is the substitution panels being made available to schools or the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...in accessing a school transport place. It is for those reasons we are keen to complete this report and to make provision for school transport as accessible and open to everybody as possible as we go forward.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...has been no shortage of funding and that there has been a willingness from the Department’s point of view to make all necessary funding available. Reference was made earlier to differences in budgets as we go forward. One of the reasons for the differences, from a capital point of view, is that money was made available in December to ensure that. There will always be room for-----

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...to me and the Department. We will study the review. It will be the springboard for further discussion and, ultimately, decision-making with regard to the senior cycle and all that it entails going forward. It is a very important body of work. Our experience with Covid-19 has in its own right been shining a light on the senior cycle. I anticipate that the report will be with me...

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...we ask them to stick with that so that we can get children and young people back to school as quickly as possible. In regard to Tallaght Community School, I will confer with Deputy Duffy as we go forward. I know this is a matter of particular importance to him and that he has raised it on a number of occasions. I can assure him that my officials will be happy to meet with him on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...in terms of introducing in schools any measures requested from a public health point of view. We have introduced them at different stages throughout the reopening of schools and we would do that going forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...In the midst of a pandemic, it is a fair option. It allows students the opportunity to choose one or both and it makes provision from a public health point of view as well in terms of what may happen going forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...in which we will continue to work and focus on in the Department. We will look at all measures, including the Senator's point about home school liaison officers, that might need to be incorporated going forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...has been made available in Britain. There are a variety of views as to how that has been received in Britain by education stakeholders. It is, therefore, important that we find our own mechanisms going forward. In the first instance, however, it is most definitely my intention to begin programmes of that nature in the summer, particularly with regard to numeracy and literacy, but much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...to Covid. On making an adjudication as to whether an additional post should be made available at deputy principal level in primary schools, considerations of that nature would be for the budget going forward. I am mindful of the case the Chairman has made and it is something I will give due consideration to.

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Norma Foley: ...Ó Cuív for his considerate, insightful and, indeed, measured contribution. I believe the Deputy is 100% correct, and it has been articulated by Deputy O'Donnell, that there is only one agenda here and it is to find a way forward for all of our children, in this instance children with additional needs in particular. I absolutely believe there is a shared objective, and I say...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme (8 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: ...you are aware I announced an additional €55 million in minor works grants for primary and post-primary schools to be paid in early December, 2020. The €55 million payments involves: - bringing forward from 2021 the standard €30m minor works grant at primary level - an additional €25m funding for Covid-19 related Minor Works at post-primary level; This payment...