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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I appreciate where Deputy Crowe is coming from. With the work of our own NEPS team we have been fortunate enough to have additional funding to ensure additional NEPS psychologists are being employed. In the last year an additional 18 have been taken on. In the coming months of February and March interviews are taking place for another tranche of NEPS psychologists. With regard to the flow...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: We will engage with the OPW on this. I have an official here from the planning and building section, so we can follow up directly with the Deputy. I hear the case the Deputy is making but we will engage with the OPW as well.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I thank the Deputy. I am aware this is particularly close to the Deputy's heart. It has progressed and the report is being completed. I outlined previously the process, which is that on completion of the report it goes to the Cabinet subcommittee. Following its views and whatever is expressed in the Cabinet subcommittee there might be an additional small amount of work to do. Then it...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: That is a very significant body of work and an important piece of work. The whole area of special education, particularly in the last number of years, has really evolved. It is a personal view in terms of how we move forward. There is a vision that there would be colocation, that is, there would be a mainstream school and a special school all within the one campus with a view to...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I will come back to the Deputy directly.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I absolutely accept the Deputy’s points. From the Department’s perspective, we build the school, provide the staffing and resources but the area of the therapies falls within the remit of the Department of Health, as the Deputy said. I want to acknowledge Cork ETB’s work in the area of special education. It is important to say that. We have the school inclusion...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: In recent months, we announced the acceleration of senior cycle reform so that students who will be beginning their leaving certificate in September 2025 will be the first cohort of students with the new reimagined senior cycle. There will be nine subjects in that space. They will be the science and business subjects and two new subjects, drama, film and theatre studies and climate action...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I cannot confirm that about Professor Hyland but I will revert to the committee on that. The whole area of STEM is hugely important. The Department does have a digital strategy. It is funded to €200 million up to 2027. There was significant funding for the whole technology area right throughout Covid. There is huge engagement in my Department around supports and resources but also...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I want to acknowledge the huge amount of work by this committee on the whole area of senior cycle reform and the valuable additional resources provided to the Department. As I said, in September 2025, the first tranche of nine subjects will begin. Seven of those subjects are currently out for public consultation on the specifications of what is involved with them. That is open until 23...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I thank the Chair for that question. Specifically, one of the new subjects in our post-primary schools from 2025 will be climate action and sustainability. It speaks to the great interest from young people. I give full credit to them, as they have very much put it on the agenda. As a society, we are very much following their lead in many instances here. I also see in schools the...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I thank the Chair again for that. I want to be sincere in acknowledging the significant engagement of this committee in this area in driving that issue on. It was a good coalition of similar minds at a given time because the work of this committee was reflective of the agenda which I wanted to push myself. The great work which the committee did was very beneficial to us. I salute and...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I hear what the Chair is saying. Funding is given to the school across a whole variety of different headings. There is capitation and so on. They have an element of discretion there. We can always keep everything under review and look at whether additional funding is available for anything. When I mention capitation, I can tell the Chair straight up that many principals will say they...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I hear what the Cathaoirleach is saying. Have they have engaged with the local authority there?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: What about CLÁR funding?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: Well, you learn something new every day.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: -----that we would have said. However, I would be happy for the Cathaoirleach to give us the details.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: We engage with all the stakeholders through forward planning, etc. We look at the local authorities and know their projections. We look at housing developments and many other different things in forward planning or future planning. I cannot give the Deputy a specific answer on Sixmilebridge and whether there is sufficient demand there. I will have to revert to the planning and building...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: Go for it.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: I thought you were going to say the end of the session.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Norma Foley: Yes, I appreciate that.