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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Feb 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: Children in Care (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: In line with the arrangements set out as part of the current Government formation, since January 2021, Tusla Education Support Services (TESS), including the administration of the Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) scheme and the School Completion Programme (SCP) is under my remit. TESS operates under the Education (Welfare) Act, 2000, a piece of legislation that emphasises the promotion...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the school referred to was approved for a project under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme. The project will provide 8 General Classrooms, 4 SET rooms, 1 Music room, 1 Textiles room, 1 Art Room, 1 Project store, 1 Multimedia room, 2 Science laboratory /1 Preparation area, 1 Library, and 1 General Purpose/Dining Room. The project is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The school campus building project on the site referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department’s Construction Programme and will deliver two new 1,000 pupil post-primary schools and a new 8 classroom primary school and accommodation, including 14 classrooms, for children with special educational needs. The project will be delivered under my Department's ADAPT Programme which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As you may be aware, the purpose of the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) is to enable individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works on a devolved basis and, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the operation of the school. The SWS operates on a multi-annual basis for categories of works such as roof works, window...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: 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 centre as determined by the Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department implemented the outcome of the public service-wide review of allowances and premium payments (September 2012) by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform which means that many allowances, including this one, were no longer payable to “new entrant” Teachers. Circular 0008/2013 outlines the effect of this review on teachers. In common with a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to assure the Deputy, that the provision of appropriate accommodation for pupils with special education needs is an absolute priority. I also wish to acknowledge the invaluable work being done by school principals and wider school authorities in expanding the educational provision for pupils with special educational needs, including the required physical infrastructure. I would like to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2022/23 school year, over 149,000 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services are being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department is required to manage the overall school building programme so that we target and prioritise areas that are under greatest pressure for additional school places. This reflects the Department’s fundamental objective of ensuring the availability of a school place for every child. The main focus of the department’s resources over the last decade and for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: A request for additional information was requested from the Deputy. This will be forwarded directly once it is received.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Feb 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 Accommodation (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to was approved for a project under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme. The project will provide an additional mainstream classroom and has been devolved for delivery to the school authority. The school has appointed a design team and submitted a stage 1 architectural report that is currently being reviewed by my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department's school building programme and will provide a 16 classroom primary school and accommodation, including two classrooms for children with special educational needs. My Department progressed 8 Design and Build (D and B) projects (Lots 1 and 2) to construction in 2021, with a further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teagasc na Gaeilge (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Cuirfear litir chuig an Teachta ina thaobh seo go luath.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant is to support schools in carrying out projects to stimulate an increased interest in STEM and included an application process as with other STEM initiatives in the past such as the STEM clusters project. As you are aware the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Completion Programme, (SCP) is funded by my Department via Tulsa Education Support Service (TESS) and is a central element of the DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) programme, a key policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. Since I took over responsibility for the SCP in January 2021, an additional allocation of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: In February 2022, following a series of engagements at the Workplace Relations Commission, (WRC), a range of measures designed to improve the working conditions of school secretaries was proposed, which Fórsa agreed to recommend to its members. A ballot was undertaken, and the result was 95% agreement in favour of the deal. Circular 0036/2022 Revision of Salaries and Annual Leave...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As you may be aware, the purpose of the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) is to enable individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works on a devolved basis and, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the operation of the school. The SWS operates on a multi-annual basis for categories of works such as roof works, window...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Official Travel (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Outlined hereunder in tabular format is details of trips embarked by me since my appointment as Minister for Education. Number of foreign visits 2020 – Present 9 Geographical Location Date and days spent abroad Number of days Travel and Accommodation costs Paris 07th – 08th March 2022 ...