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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department, along with other Departments across the public service, implemented the outcome of the public service-wide review of allowances and premium payments (September 2012) by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (DPENDPDR). This meant that many allowances were no longer payable to “new entrants” including teachers. Among...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm that my department is in receipt of an application for funding under the Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) scheme from the school in question. The purpose of the ASA Scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year and where the need cannot be met by the school’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department’s main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in the area. Parents have the right to choose which school to apply to and where the school has places available for the relevant year, the student should be admitted. However, in schools where there are more applicants than places available, a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: As outlined in Circular 39/2025, where there is a new Special Education Needs (SEN) classroom sanctioned by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) to open through the repurposing of existing accommodation, a SEN Start Up grant is payable. Additional funding for small scale repurposing works is also available to schools on an application basis to enhance the teaching space and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: This Government is committed to ensuring that every child has a positive school experience, with access to qualified and engaged teachers who are dedicated to supporting their learning. Like many sectors, recruitment challenges exist in the education sector, especially in urban areas. While most teaching positions are filled, some schools face significant recruitment challenges. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 62 and 67 together. The large scale capital project for the school referred to by the Deputy is the provision of a new 600 pupil school building including all associated ancillary accommodation. My Department previously advised a new grant of planning was received in December 2023, with a number of conditions attached. Decarbonisation measures were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm that my department is in receipt of an application for funding under the Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) scheme from the school in question. The application was received in September 2025 and sought accommodation in the form of a Music room, Textiles room, Design and Computer Graphics room, Multimedia room and a Science lab and Prep area. The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The scheduling of the school holiday periods during the school year is agreed between the managerial authorities of schools, the teacher unions and my department for the purposes of standardising breaks at Christmas, Easter and mid-term. This is important to ensure certainty for the school community about the dates of school holidays. The department’s policy on the agreed standardised...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm that my Department is not in receipt of an application for additional school accommodation (ASA) from the school in question.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The major building project for the school referred to has just recently completed Stage 2(a) of Architectural Planning – Developed Design, where the preferred design option is developed to a stage where the project can be fully cost planned, and prepared to lodge for statutory approvals. The brief for this project is 12 Mainstream Classrooms plus 1 Speech & Language Classes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The major building project for the school referred to has just recently completed Stage 2(a) of Architectural Planning – Developed Design, where the preferred design option is developed to a stage where the project can be fully cost planned, and prepared to lodge for statutory approvals. The brief for this project is 12 Mainstream Classrooms plus 1 Speech & Language...

Presentation of Estimates: Motion (23 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 222 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business or the Resolutions of the Dáil of 1st April, 21st May, 16th June and 25th June, 2025 the following Further Revised Estimates for Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2025, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members on 23rd September,...

Approval of Appointment of Members of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Motion (23 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting that the Government agreed on 10th September, 2025, to propose, for the approval of Dáil Éireann, the appointment or reappointment, as the case may be, of the persons concerned to be members of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority, and pursuant to sections 9 and 10 of the Legal Services Regulation Act, 2015, approves the appointment...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I am pleased to be here today, with the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Moynihan, who has responsibility for school transport in the Department, to share an update on school transport. As the House will be aware, the school transport scheme is a hugely significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. In the current school year already almost 178,000...

Education (Affordable School Uniforms) Bill 2025: First Stage (23 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: No.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (23 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Middle East (23 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education and Youth does not maintain records that identify the country of origin or geopolitical affiliations of companies from which goods or services are procured. As such, the Department is not in a position to provide the information requested. I can therefore confirm to the Deputy that the details sought are not available at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Middle East (23 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education and Youth does not maintain records that identify the country of origin or geopolitical affiliations of companies from which goods or services are procured. As such, the Department is not in a position to provide the information requested. I can therefore confirm to the Deputy that the details sought are not available at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers to was approved to enter the departments pipeline of school building projects under the Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to provide a 5 General Classrooms, 1 Music room, 1 Multimedia room, 1 Textiles room, 1 Science lab, 1 Prep area and Ancillary and to include the demolition/removal of 1 prefab. The project has been devolved for delivery to...