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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tusla Education Support Service (TESS) is under the remit of my Department. TESS operates under the Education (Welfare) Act, 2000, a piece of legislation that emphasises the promotion of school attendance, participation and retention. TESS has three strands namely the statutory Educational Welfare Service (EWS) and the two school support services the Home School Community Liaison (HSCL)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education has had no involvement with the building project for the school referred to by the Deputy. This Department understands that the project was funded under the Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP) introduced by the Irish Government and administered by the Department of Justice. The school authority in question engaged directly with that Department relating to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. this figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tusla Education Support Service (TESS) and Tusla's Alternative Education Assessment and Registration Service (AEARS) are under the remit of my Department. My Department is informed that neither of these services has used the services of the company referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Firstly, let me say that caretakers are valued members of our school communities who carry out work vital to the operations of our schools. At present, the majority of primary and post-primary schools receive assistance to provide for caretaker services under ancillary grant funding. Under the February 2022 agreement the implementation of revised salary and annual leave entitlements for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. this figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Please find attached requested data. SPA and Irish Classification data is taken from the relevant final primary and post-primary lists for academic year 2023-24, the latest year we have final data for. The lists can be found on our website at the link below; Please note as per the school lists, that Irish medium primary schools are those schools with an Irish classification of "All...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Services (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. this figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The large scale capital project for the provision of a new 600 pupil school and ancillary accommodation is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. The remaining Stages are Stage 4 - in Construction, and Stage 5 - Handover and Final Account 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 (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 135, 163 and 164 together. My Department is in the process of arranging interim accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy in order to facilitate the school's immediate requirements pending delivery of their major building project. My officials are aware of the urgency associated with this accommodation and are working closely with the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department promotes the quality of teaching and learning through the provision of quality teacher training programmes and teacher professional learning and support for principals and teachers in a range of pedagogical, curricular and educational areas. This is done through initial teacher education programmes, education centres and support services for teachers at primary and post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 137 and 138 together. Please note that the Department does not currently publish class standard data by constituency. The Department does publish enrolments by School Planning Area. Please find attached Junior Infant enrolment data for those SPAs contained within the Dublin Mid-West constituency. The data also includes those schools within the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers to was approved funding under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme (ASA) for the provision of 2 x Special Educational Needs classrooms and 3 x mainstream classrooms. The project brief is to be delivered using modular accommodation. The Department has a significant modular accommodation programme in place to assist schools in the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Education and Training Boards (ETBs) were established under the which provides that each ETB is a statutory body having its own corporate status. It is therefore the responsibility of each ETB to manage the day to day operation of the organisation, including the management of staff. It should be noted that under the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 an employee has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sports Facilities (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm that the property the Deputy refers to is in not in the ownership of my Department, the matter in question should be raised with the registered land owner.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I wish to advise that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation for a new ASD classroom at the school referred to by the Deputy. Schools’ support for the establishment of special classes is very welcome and the Department commends any school who wishes to open a special class. However, an analysis of both the need for special class...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The project referred to by the Deputy has been devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). This project is currently at Stage 2b of the architectural planning process. The Stage 2b report has recently been received by the Department. Once the Stage 2b report is reviewed and approved, the next stage will be to tender for a contractor and onwards to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 146 and 147 together. Enabling children with special educational needs to receive a befitting education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The NCSE has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for roof works. This application is currently being reviewed by the technical team within the EWS area. Once a technical recommendation has been received the EWS team will engage further with the school as appropriate. The EWS team is aware of the urgent nature of the works...