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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide 1 mainstream classroom and 1 SET room. My department issued approval to planning in Q4 of 2022, followed by the submission of planning permission and updated drawings in Q4 of 2023. Currently, a stage 2B report is under review from both a financial and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a wide range of supports to all schools, DEIS and non-DEIS, to support the inclusion of all students and address barriers to students achieving their potential. Supplementing the universal supports available to all schools, the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy initiative of my Department to address concentrated educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Circular 0041/2023 (Revision of Teachers’ Salaries under the Building Momentum Pay Agreement) has been superseded by Circular 0033/2024 (Revision of Teachers’ Salaries under the Public Service Agreement 2024-2026). With regard to the removal of the clause that qualification allowances are not payable, the Department of Education, along with other Departments across the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: At primary level, teachers are allocated to schools at an average of 1 classroom teacher for every 23 pupils, the lowest level ever seen at primary level. DEIS Urban Band 1 schools receive an average allocation of 17:1, 21:1 and 19:1 for junior, senior and vertical schools respectively. Each one point improvement in the staffing schedule at primary level for DEIS and non-DEIS schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I recognise the key role school leadership in improving educational outcomes by creating a positive school climate and environment as well as motivating and empowering educators and learners within their school communities. The Sectoral Bargaining process under Building Momentum for the primary sector has been used to increase posts of responsibility (POR) in primary and special schools by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day to day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, including CSO Census data, Child Benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise and where additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with the statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with the statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Advertising (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department's total spending on advertisement in print media for the period in question is outlined below. (YTD) 2024 €113,525 2023 €349,703 2022 €17,007 2021 €48,306 2020 €154,938 2019 €2,031 A list of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 provided that Caranua could make funding supports available to those who had received an award of redress from the Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) or a similar court award or settlement. The RIRB was established in 2002 and closed for applications in September 2011. The RIRB made approximately 15,600 awards of redress,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with the statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The School to which the Deputy refers most recently submitted an application for funding for an internal fire escape staircase under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS), which was approved and completed in July 2023. There have been no subsequent EWS applications received from this school. There has been some direct engagement with the school on the issue of fire certification but the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I recently announced €50 million in grant funding for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) , which has now issued to all recognised primary, special Schools and post-primary schools. This ICT funding is being provided to schools to help them continue to use digital technologies in their teaching, learning and assessment and which represents the second tranche of ICT funding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to confirm to the Deputy that under the current terms of the school transport scheme, children are eligible for transport at primary level where they reside not less than 3.2 kilometres from and are attending their nearest national school, and at post primary level where they reside not less than 4.8 kilometres from and are attending their nearest post primary school/education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the deputy was announced by the Minister in December 2019 as an 8 classroom primary school with 2 classrooms for children with special educational needs. Subsequently, in May 2020, due to a demographic review this project was revised to a 16 classroom primary school with 2 classrooms for children with special educational needs. The project was subsequently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to was approved to enter my Department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide the following accommodation: 14 General classroom, 2 SEN base, 7 SET rooms, 1 Music room, 1 Art room and project store, 1 Home Economics room, 1 Construction room and project store, 1 DCG room, 2 Science laboratories and preparation area, 1...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The planned establishment of a new post-primary school in 2021 to serve the Sallynoggin_Killiney_DLR/Cherrywood school planning area was announced in 2018 as a result of a countrywide demographic exercise. Further analysis has since been conducted on the necessity for the establishment of planned new schools taking into account a number of factors including the pace of delivery of the...