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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Celbridge Campus Project referred to by the Deputy has been devolved for delivery to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) as part of a bundled school building programme. It is currently at Stage 2a of the architectural design process. Stage 2a (the developed design stage) involves the Design Team developing the designs, fully cost planning the campus project and preparing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to increasing funding to support schools, and the Programme for Government commits to increasing capitation funding to schools of all types to ensure that schools can meet the elevated day-to-day running costs. The commitment in the Programme for Government builds on the progress which has been made in recent years, including an over €30 million...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department provides significant funding to the organisation in question and the wider youth sector. Arising from Budget 2025, €84.9m has been allocated for current and capital expenditure for the benefit of young people, an increase in funding of €7 million, or almost 9%, on the 2024 budget. Over the period from 2020 to 2025, the level of current Exchequer funding for youth...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to increasing funding to support schools and the Programme for Government commits to increasing capitation funding to schools of all types to ensure that schools can meet the elevated day-to-day running costs. The commitment in the Programme for Government builds on the progress which has been made in recent years, including an over €30 million permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department has recently completed a building project at the school referred to by the deputy. This extension and refurbishment project allowed the school to increase its capacity to a 16-classroom school plus accommodation for special education need classes. The issue of funding repairs, upkeep and inspections of playgrounds outside the vested site areas of schools and other such issues...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm that my department is in receipt of an application for capital funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme for modular accommodation from the school referred to by the Deputy. My department has a significant modular accommodation programme in place to assist schools in the provision of additional capacity, including in respect of facilitating the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department approved funding for reconfiguration to provide one special education needs classroom (SEN) and the provision of modular accommodation comprising one mainstream classroom, one SET room and one art room under my Department’s Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation programme, for the school in question. Under the terms of this scheme, a play area is provided as a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling education disadvantage and helping students reach their full potential is a key priority for me as Minister for Education and Youth, and for the Government.?Currently, the DEIS programme supports almost 1,200 primary and post-primary schools, reaching approximately 260,000 students, with an annual investment of over €180 million. The most recent expansion of the programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 464, 465 and 466 together. My Department is committed to supporting the provision of non-mainstream music education for children and young people in a sustainable and inclusive way. This is done mainly through annual allocations to support Music Generation and schools of music within four Education and Training Boards. There are no plans to extend...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to increasing funding to support schools and the Programme for Government commits to increasing capitation funding to schools of all types to ensure that schools can meet the elevated day-to-day running costs. The commitment in the Programme for Government builds on the progress which has been made in recent years, including an over €30 million permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: Under the Programme for Government there is a commitment to aim to reduce the general pupil teacher ratio at primary level to 19:1 over the term of government and introduce targeted measures in schools with very large classes. This will build on the progress which has been made by the previous Government. The general average of pupils to teachers in the Primary Staffing Schedule improved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy is aware, through the Senior Cycle Redevelopment programme, the specifications for all Leaving Certificate curricular subjects are scheduled to be redeveloped by 2029, in annual groupings. The first tranche of 9 new and revised subjects have been introduced for this academic year and are available to study for all students commencing their Leaving Certificate studies...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to increasing funding to support schools and the Programme for Government commits to increasing capitation funding to schools of all types to ensure that schools can meet the elevated day-to-day running costs. The commitment in the Programme for Government builds on the progress which has been made in recent years, including an over €30 million permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 474 and 475 together. The school to which the Deputy refers was granted approval for the provision of three mainstream classrooms, four science rooms plus preparation areas, two technical/design communication graphics rooms, four special education tuition (SET)rooms, one staff room, in additional accommodation. The project also incorporates...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to increasing funding to support schools and the Programme for Government commits to increasing capitation funding to schools of all types to ensure that schools can meet the elevated day-to-day running costs. The commitment in the Programme for Government builds on the progress which has been made in recent years, including an over €30 million permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to increasing funding to support schools and the Programme for Government commits to increasing capitation funding to schools of all types to ensure that schools can meet the elevated day-to-day running costs. The commitment in the Programme for Government builds on the progress which has been made in recent years, including an over €30 million permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to increasing funding to support schools and the Programme for Government commits to increasing capitation funding to schools of all types to ensure that schools can meet the elevated day-to-day running costs. The commitment in the Programme for Government builds on the progress which has been made in recent years, including an over €30 million permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The brief for this project is to provide a new permanent school for the school referred to by the Deputy, and this project is designed to be delivered in 2 phases; Phase 1 will deliver accommodation for 425 students and Phase 2 will deliver the remaining accommodation to provide for a Long Term Projected Enrolment of 1000 students, at the former Magee Barracks site in Kildare. The Design...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The redeveloped Primary School Curriculum is for all children attending primary and special schools and consists of the Primary Curriculum Framework (2023) and five curriculum area specifications, including: • Arts Education (including Art, Drama and Music) • Language (including Irish, English and Modern Foreign Languages) • Social and Environmental Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: Significant investment of over €9 million was made available to primary and special schools at the end of 2024. This was to ensure that schools have essential resources and materials to deliver a curriculum that meets the needs of all learners. The first of the grants were specifically aimed at supporting the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education...

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