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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Safety, Health, and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 299 of 2007) place an obligation on the employer, as soon as it is notified by the special needs assistant that she is pregnant, to assess any specific risk in the workplace to that special needs assistant and to ensure that the pregnant, post-natal, or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Capital Expenditure for the school referred to by the Deputy for 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date is detailed below: Department of Education Capital Spend 2025 2024 2023 Emergency Works Scheme N/A N/A €87,190 EU Funding Inventory Programme ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The overall Department of Education and Youth capital spend for the school referred to by the Deputy for 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date is detailed below: Department of Education & Youth Capital Spend 2025 2024 2023 Minor Works €9,348 €9,644 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. There has been no change to the staffing of the school referred to by the Deputy for the current school year. Under the Programme for Government there is a commitment to aim to reduce...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The major building project referred to by the Deputy will deliver a new 8 classroom primary school with 2 classrooms for children with special education needs. The project will be delivered under my Department's ADAPT 4 Programme – Programme Innovate. This programme will be led by Integrated Project Teams consisting of highly skilled and experienced design professionals,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 493, 494 and 495 together. Please find attached requested data, there were 425,411 pupils enrolled in post-primary schools in academic year 2024-2025. Enrolment data was collated from the final enrolments for academic year 2024-2025, which can be found at the link below. Enrolments are as per the census date, 30th September 2024. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can assure the Deputy that the provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority of mine. Since 2020, my department has invested over €6 billion in our schools throughout the country under the National Development Plan, involving...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: In relation to ventilation standards in schools, the Planning and Building Unit (PBU) of the Department of Education and Youth publish technical design guidance on requirements for indoor air quality and ventilation in new school buildings. This guidance is included in a number of documents available on gov.ie. International research suggests that high efficiency particulate air (HEPA...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I wish to advise the Deputy that requirement for school places is kept under on-going review in the context of available information on population, enrolments and residential development activity. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 510, 511 and 512 together. I thank the Deputy for his query in relation to my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS). NEPS provides psychological support to all primary, post-primary, and special schools. Currently there are 234 whole time equivalent educational psychologists employed in NEPS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 506, 507, 508 and 509 together. Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an appropriate education is a priority for this Government. It is also a key priority for me, my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The major building project referred to by the Deputy will deliver a new 16 classroom primary school and accommodation, including two classrooms, for children with special educational needs. The project currently has planning permission and is being brought to the level of employer-led design with a Design Team assigned to do so under the supervision of the Department’s project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The criteria for the award of incremental credit are set out in the Department’s Circulars 10/2001, for primary teachers, and 29/2007 and 29/2010, for post-primary teachers. The criteria for the award of incremental credit to recognised teachers were agreed under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council (TCC). These circulars provide for the award of incremental credit in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: There is currently no provision under the public service pension schemes to reckon teaching service provided abroad for pension purposes. Public service pay and conditions, including pension arrangements, are determined through centralised engagement and collective bargaining between the Government and public service unions. However, serving teachers who are members of the pre-existing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The criteria for the award of incremental credit are set out in the Department’s Circulars 10/2001 for Primary teachers, 29/2007 and 29/2010 for post-primary teachers. The criteria for the award of incremental credit to recognised teachers was agreed under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council (TCC). The relevant circular applying here is 10/2001. These circulars...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: Teaching allocations are determined by the enrolment of the school on the previous 30 September. This process enables the Department to have in place the necessary measures to assess the accuracy of returns and thereby strengthen the integrity of the resource allocation process and the equitable treatment of schools, whilst ensuring that publicly funded resources are properly allocated. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: Since 2020, my department has invested over €6 billion in our schools throughout the country under the National Development Plan, involving the completion of over 1,400 school building projects. Government support for this investment, including by way of supplementary capital funding, has delivered real benefits for school communities. In July, the Government announced a capital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy will be delivered as part of a shared educational campus which will provide two new 1,000 pupil post primary schools with six classrooms for children with special education needs, a new eight-classroom primary school with accommodation and two classrooms for children with special education needs and a new 20 classroom special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy will be delivered as part of a shared educational campus which will provide two new 1,000 pupil post primary schools with 6 classrooms for children with special education needs, a new eight-classroom primary school with accommodation and two classrooms for children with special education needs and a new 20 classroom special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 524 and 573 together. This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the national agency with responsibility for the provision of...