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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Based on the CSO's urban area of Celbridge from the 2022 Census, there are 1,795 post-primary students that provided a postal address located in the Built Up Area for 2023-24 school year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the deputy refers submitted a request for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) regarding Roof Works. My Department has been engaged in ongoing consultation with the school since this application was received. The EWS team has recently given approval for a leak detection test to be conducted. Once this test had been conducted and the subsequent report has been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. The purpose of the ASA 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 Enrolments (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, in order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the deputy refers submitted a request for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) regarding Life Safety Systems in December 2023. My Department has been engaged in ongoing consultation with the school since this application was received. The EWS team is currently awaiting further information in respect of this application, once this information is received the EWS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As indicated in the response to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 13 February 2024, before an employer opts to recruit further persons as SNAs, they must ensure that all existing part-time SNAs in standard posts in their employment, in order of seniority, have been offered a full-time position in the school or, in the case of ETBs, a full-time position in a school within the ETB scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Since 2020, my Department has invested in the region of €4.3 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 800 school building projects with construction currently underway at approximately 300 other projects, which includes 33 new school buildings. These 300 projects currently at construction involve a total State investment of over €1.2bn....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The sraitheanna pictiúr, or picture sequences, are a component of the common Irish Oral test for Higher Level and Ordinary Level candidates, with the Oral test accounting for 40% of the overall marks for Leaving Cert Irish. In response to issues highlighted in National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) and An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta &...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 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: Schools Building Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: For school planning purposes, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose. Additionally, Project Ireland 2040 population and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 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 (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school referred to have been approved funding under my departments Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for 2 mainstream classrooms, 4 special education tuition rooms and conversion works for 2 special education classrooms. I can confirm that an initial preliminary design for this project was submitted to my Department by the school’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Since 2020, my Department has invested in the region of €4.3 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 800 school building projects with construction currently underway at approximately 300 other projects, which includes 33 new school buildings. These 300 projects currently at construction involve a total State investment of over €1.2bn....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: 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 for the Department. Under Project Ireland 2040, my Department is investing over €5 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 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: Schools Building Projects (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. The purpose of the ASA 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 school’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Minister Norma Foley and Minister of State Ossian Smyth launched the first phase of the Schools PV Programme in November 2023. The programme will provide eligible schools with 6 kilowatts of roof-mounted solar PV, which equates to approximately 16 solar panels and includes connection to the grid and a monitoring system and display screen. The Schools PV Programme is a devolved programme based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Minister Norma Foley and Minister of State Ossian Smyth launched the first phase of the Schools PV Programme in November 2023. The programme will provide eligible schools with 6 kilowatts of roof-mounted solar PV, which equates to approximately 16 solar panels and includes connection to the grid and a monitoring system and display screen. The Schools PV Programme is a devolved programme based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 196 and 197 together. Under the Constitution, the provisions of article 44 recognise the rights of children to attend school without attending religious instruction at that school. Furthermore the provisions of Section 30(2) (e) of the Education Act 1998 provide that a school shall not require a student to attend instruction in any subject which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: In accordance with the Education Act 1998, schools are managed by Boards of Management on behalf of the relevant school patrons. Under the provisions of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, all schools have admissions policies, which have been approved by the patron, following consultation with staff and parents of children who are attending the school. All schools must publish...