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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: As part of the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010-2030, my Department has committed to creating opportunities for expanding Irish-medium education outside the Gaeltacht in the context of the announcements on the establishment of 47 new schools from 2019 (English and Irish medium). My Department has ensured that the process for deciding on the patronage of new schools affords...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The Programme for Government commits to establishing a Citizens’ Assembly on the Future of Education ensuring that the voices of young people and those being educated are central. The Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use recently held its final meeting and the final report from this assembly is scheduled to be published before the end of 2023. The establishment of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (30 Nov 2023)

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, using...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that a second National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development – ESD to 2030 – co-sponsored by my Department, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, was published in June 2022. ESD to 2030 aims to ensure that all learners have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2022/23 school year, over 149,000 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services are being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department is providing considerable resources to support pupils' progression in schools. Special Education Teachers and Special Needs Assistants, as well as a wide range of resources under the various schemes for schools in areas designated as disadvantaged, are among the forms of provision allocated to schools to support pupils. The level of provision available should enable pupils to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (30 Nov 2023)

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 (30 Nov 2023)

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, using...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: Section 29 of the Education Act 1998 as inserted by Section 7 of the Education (Admissions to schools) Act 2018 provides for an appeal, where a board of management, or a person acting on behalf of the board of management (normally the school principal) refuses to admit a student to a school, suspends a student for not less than 20 days or permanently excludes a student. Section 29 D of this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The large scale capital project at the school referred to by the Deputy is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 - Tender Action and Award. The original grant of planning is due to expire in December 2023, but due to changes to the Planning Acts in September 2021, it is no longer possible to apply for an extension to the planning permission for the main building project and a new application is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers is part of a campus project and has been devolved for delivery under the patronage of CEIST. The brief for the project includes the delivery of a 16 classroom Primary School with 2 classroom SEN base, GP room, library and other ancillary accommodation. The project is currently at Stage 2a of the architectural planning design process. At a recent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the school to which he refers was approved a school building project under the Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project is being managed on a devolved basis by Louth & Meath Education and Training Board on behalf of the school authority and a design team was appointed for the project. The project approved consists of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (30 Nov 2023)

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 my Department. In order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department is aware that a number of schools are experiencing some challenges recruiting teachers for the school year. The Department meets on a regular basis with school management bodies and teacher unions on this very important issue with a view to identifying solutions to the challenges faced by these schools. Fixed term replacement teacher posts must be filled according to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 345 and 346 together. Kildare and Wicklow ETB (KWETB) has informed my Department that a single governing authority for Maynooth Educational Campus (MEC) involving both Maynooth Post-Primary School and Maynooth Community College was established in 2013. The ETB has confirmed that details of the composition and membership of the governing authority at the time...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The information that the Deputy requested is set out in tabular form in the attached spreadsheets. The information is based on the annual October Returns which were submitted to the Department by Post Primary schools. It is assumed that the Deputy is referring to the Leaving Certificate exams in 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2022 and therefore the data provided is from the associated academic years...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The post primary school which was established as a regional solution for Dublin South City Centre is Sandymount Park Educate Together Secondary School. Please see below breakdown of parental preference per prospective patron. School Planning Area Patronage Parents Preference Dublin 2, 4, 6, 8 Educate Together 1,210 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: Having reviewed the information to hand, since year 2000 to date, I can confirm that my Department has acquired 61 sites at a cost of circa €200m, to facilitate the delivery of second level education institutions. All of the details requested by the Deputy are not readily available within a central repository in my Department. As the Deputy will appreciate, it would involve a very...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Nov 2023)

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. The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for individual school authorities. In that regard, there are more than 3,700 individual employers (boards of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: White Papers (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department has not published any White Papers from 2008 to date. White Papers are publicly available on: www.gov.ie/en/publications/