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

Norma Foley: 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). To qualify for an award of incremental credit, a teacher and their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Tógála Scoileanna (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Is é príomhfhócas acmhainní mo Roinne le deich mbliana anuas agus don tréimhse atá le teacht ná spás ríthábhachtach breise a sholáthar chun freastal ar dhéimeagrafaic mhéadaitheacha. Is féidir liom a dheimhniú go bhfuil iarratas faighte ag an Roinn, faoin scéim um Chóiríocht Scoile Bhreise, ón...

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

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that details of the number of teachers who are employed by primary and post primary schools (excluding Education and Training Board (ETB) schools) are published each year at www.gov.ie/en/publication/c97fbd-teacher-statistics/#number- of-teachers-by-gender-appointed-to-teaching-posts In circumstances where posts are unfilled for a period of time, or where a vacancy...

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

Norma Foley: Within the context of a rapidly increasing school population combined with arriving Ukrainian children, the Department of Education's priority is to ensure that every child has access to a physical school place. In this regard, it is sometimes necessary to make use of temporary accommodation in order to meet the accommodation needs of schools. The timing and duration of the accommodation...

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

Norma Foley: The Department’s total spending on advertising (including design) for the period in question is outlined below. Figures from 2013 to 2022 were supplied to the Deputy in 2023 in PQ Ref: 4848/23 (Please see below). Figures for 2023 and 2024 to-date (February 2024) are outlined below. The Department has engaged in a number of advertising campaigns including the Teaching Transforms...

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

Norma Foley: The answer below was supplied to the Deputy (PQ Ref: 39969/22) last year and has not changed to date in 2024. During the period August-October 2020, the Department of Education entered into two contracts for the provision of enhanced communications capacity for short periods. The companies engaged supported necessary communications with a wide range of stakeholders on matters relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Services (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The information sought by the Deputy in regard to the amount spent by my Department on legal costs or legal services in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024 is being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

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

Norma Foley: Information in respect of payments made from my Department’s administration expenditure for the purchase of furniture and IT equipment has been extracted from my Department’s Financial Management System (FMS). Total expenditure in the period outlined by the Deputy for the purchase of office furniture and IT equipment for my Department’s offices, including the National...

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

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that there is no current Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme application on hand, from the school in question. The purpose of the Additional School Accommodation 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...

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

Norma Foley: The Special Education Teaching allocation provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile and also encompasses the Language Support (EAL) allocation that schools were allocated in previous years. All schools are advised in the first instance to review whether the needs of newly enrolled...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (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 Discipline (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), 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...

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 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: School Accommodation (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional temporary accommodation from the school in question. The school in question received approval for a permanent build which consists of 2x Special education classrooms, 7x mainstream classrooms and toilets. This project is currently at stage 2b with delivery section. As part of...

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

Norma Foley: The school to which the deputy refers submitted an Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) application for funding for a roof replacement. The EWS operates on the basis of a minimal scope of works and the school was advised to submit a revised scope of works based on a leak detection test, and an accompanying Itemised Cost Breakdown for the revised scope of works. My Department is currently awaiting...

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

Norma Foley: The first school referred to by the Deputy was approved a project under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to provide a 2 classroom SEN base. This project has been devolved for delivery to the Cork ETB (CETB). My Department are awaiting a stage 1 report submission from the CETB. Once received this will be reviewed and the outcome of the review will be...

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 traveling 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: Schools Building Projects (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The permanent school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is part of a campus development and will provide a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school and accommodation, including 6 classrooms, for children with special educational needs. The project will be delivered under my Department's ADAPT Programme which uses a professional external Project Manager to co-ordinate and...

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

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that requirements 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,...