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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers, has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a programme of school building projects. This school is in the bundle referred to as ‘Project Boyne’. The project is currently at Stage 2b (planning) of the architectural process. A planning application was lodged with Wicklow County Council and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, while there can be enrolment pressures and demand for additional school places in some areas, it is important to note sometimes this may not be as a result of lack of accommodation, but may be driven by the following factors: Duplication of applications; School of choice; Single sex schools; and External draw. Notwithstanding the above, in some areas...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: School caretakers are valued members of our school communities and the Department is fully aware of the vitally important role played by such individuals in the running of our schools. In 2022, a suite of measures designed to improve the working conditions of school secretaries was agreed and since then comprehensive work has been undertaken by the Department to move secretaries who have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the number of applications received by the closing date of 5pm on the 30thof November 2023 was 2727 and those applications that were received after the deadline totalled 126. The breakdown by county of primary and post primary schools that applied for the grants are as follows. Primary by county Number of primary schools ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the breakdown by county of primary and post-primary schools that applied for the STEM grants are as follows. Primary schools awarded grants by County Post Primary schools awarded grants by County Carlow 6 Cavan 2 Cavan 7 Clare ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Jan 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: Education Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the awards per county were as follows; Primary schools awarded grants by County Post-primary schools awarded grants by County Carlow 6 Cavan 2 Cavan 7 Clare 1 Clare 10 Cork 15 Cork ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: As Minister for Education, I believe it is crucially important that children and young people are actively supported to access education in its fullest forms. This Government recognises that the cost of preparing children for school each September can be a cause of financial difficulty and worry for many Irish families. As part of Budget 2023, I announced a major investment of over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: NEPS currently has 236 psychologists. This includes a Director, 9 Regional Directors, 45 seniors and 181 maingrade psychologists. The cost of engaging an additional main grade psychologist is €78,435.00. This cost includes pay and non-pay costs. The cost of increasing the number of educational psychologists by 40% (95 additional psychologists) is €7,451,325.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department has committed considerable resources towards the restoration of guidance counselling hours to post-primary schools, to the provision of CPD for guidance counsellors and to the provision of a national guidance counselling supervision service for post-primary guidance counsellors in recent times. The guidance allocation is provided separately and transparently on each school's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The school mentioned is part of my Department's construction programme. It was originally planned to be delivered under the Design and Build programme and was progressed to planning permission stage. 8 Design and Build (D and B) projects (Lots 1 and 2) went to construction in 2021, with a further 10 projects (Lots 3, 4 and 5) progressed to construction in Summer 2022. A further 10...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the grant scheme was open to any recognised primary, post-primary or special school within the free education scheme which included DEIS and non-DEIS schools. I can further advise that a total of 530 schools received grants and of those 146 were DEIS schools. When the grant scheme was announced the Department indicated that it had funding of €1.5m...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school in question is not on the Department's Capital Building Programme. The main focus of the department’s resources over the last decade and for the coming period is on provision of critical additional capacity to cater for increasing demographics . Under Project Ireland 2040 the education sector will receive a total of approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The new set of enrolments in primary and post-primary schools projections is planned to be published by end of January 2024. The publication date is not available yet. The new report (and others in the series) may be accessed at: www.gov.ie/en/collection/projections/.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The person named submitted an application for an award of incremental credit with respect to relevant non-teaching service. The application for an award of incremental credit was not successful. Following notification that the application was not successful, the person named appealed this decision. This appeal is currently under examination by an independent Primary Incremental Credit...