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

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers includes an extension to the existing school buildings. The project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority and it has appointed a design team to progress the project. The tender report has been received by my Department and is currently under review from both a technical and cost perspective. The review is nearing completion and my...

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

Norma Foley: I wish to advise that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing...

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: 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: School Facilities (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The purpose of my Department's Additional School Accommodation (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 existing accommodation or by available accommodation at other schools in the area. I can confirm to the Deputy that my...

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

Norma Foley: Investment and expenditure on Sports Gyms is an element of the overall School Building Programme. The provision of GP rooms and PE Halls/Sports Gyms, at primary and post primary level respectively, and outdoor hard play areas, form part of the accommodation brief for all new school buildings. Almost 95% of the post primary schools that made 2020 Annual Schools Returns have indicated to...

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

Norma Foley: The Deputy's Question does not relate to a school but to a boarding facility attached to a school. The management of the boarding facility does not fall under the responsibility of my Department. Therefore, my Department does not have the power to instruct it to follow a particular course of direction with regard to individual parents.

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

Norma Foley: Information on the number of students from Ukraine enrolled in Irish schools is made available in a monthly press release from my Department, which includes the figures at both primary and post-primary level. As of 1st February 2024, 18,155 Ukrainian pupils are enrolled in Irish schools. Out of that figure, 11,288 of these pupils had enrolled in primary schools, while 6,867 pupils had...

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

Norma Foley: The School to which the deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) in January 2023. This application was made under Category 10 which pertains to external environment works and covered a number of measures including some security measures. The EWS operates on the basis of a minimal scope of works and some of the works being sought under the...

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

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers is to provide three general classroom and a two Classroom Special Education Needs base under the Department’s Additional School Accommodation scheme. The project was devolved for delivery to the school authority and it has appointed a design team to progress the project. The project is currently at stage 1 (design) of the architectural process. At...

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

Norma Foley: Ensuring that every child's experience in school is positive and that they have qualified, engaged teachers available to support them in their learning is a priority area of action for the Government. Budget 2024 contained a range of measures that demonstrate my commitment to continued investment in our education system.A professional masters’ of education incentive scheme will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126, 127 and 131 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in the area. Where a board of management makes a decision to refuse admission, a parent/guardian can appeal that decision under Section 29 of the Education Act, 1998, and an independent appeals committee will be appointed to consider the appeal. This...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (14 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 129 and 130 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (14 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: It is an absolute priority of my Department to ensure that every child in the state has access to a school place that is appropriate to their needs and we are continually investing in existing and new schools to ensure that this is the case. Tusla Education Support Service (TESS) is under the remit of my Department. TESS operates under the Education (Welfare) Act, 2000, a piece of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 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 (14 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to confirm to the Deputy that the department is in receipt of an application from the school in question under the Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 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 (14 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 Accommodation (14 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The main purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme is to provide for unforeseen emergencies that impact on school buildings. An emergency is a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or the environment, which is sudden, unforeseen and requires immediate action and, in the case of a school, if not corrected would prevent the school or part thereof from opening. The scheme...