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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (26 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department launched the Implementation Plan for Cineáltas on 10thApril 2023, which is available at gov.ie - Cineáltas: Action Plan on Bullying (www.gov.ie) Cineáltas is dedicated to the prevention and addressing of bullying, cyber bullying, racist bullying, gender identity bullying and sexual harassment, among other areas, in schools. It is centred on a child right’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department seeks to maximise value for money in all rental arrangements and works to ensure that the best possible price is negotiated. In that context, the disclosure of information about current rental agreements can compromise the achievement of value for money in current and future negotiations. For that reason of commercial sensitivity, my Department is not in a position to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (26 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The Minister has offered to personally engage with the person concerned. The Minister is committed to providing supports to survivors of residential institutions. There has been ongoing engagement from Senior Officials in the Department with the named individual and this will continue. Furthermore, in the context of advancing proposals for the future supports for survivors of residential...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (26 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: Under the Programme for Government there is a commitment to seek to make further progress in reducing the pupil teacher ratios in primary schools. In Budget 2023, I ensured major investment in our schools and I have succeeded in bringing the teacher allocation ratio to an average of 1 classroom teacher for every 23 pupils in all primary schools for the 2023/24 school year which is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 95 and 96 together. The attached document provides the number of teachers holding a Post of Responsibility Allowance (at Assistant Principal I and Assistant Principal II levels). The dates are extracted from payroll data in April 2023 and March 2009. Posts of responsibility applications are processed throughout the year by payroll staff in my Department and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that approval has issued for the provision of 1 x SEN classroom at the school referred, to cater for enrolments. The project is being delivered under the Department’s Devolved SEN Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation programme. This approach supports accelerated delivery of the accommodation and maximises assistance to the school for this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (26 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The Minister has offered to personally engage with the person concerned. The Minister is committed to providing supports to survivors of residential institutions. There has been ongoing engagement from Senior Officials in the Department with the named individual and this will continue. Furthermore, in the context of advancing proposals for the future supports for survivors of residential...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission (SEC), has responsibility for the operation, delivery and development of the State examinations. There were a number of factors that affected the timing of results of State examinations in 2022. These included a challenge in recruiting sufficient examiners, the provision of deferred examinations at Leaving Certificate for candidates who experienced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Apr 2023)

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 147,900 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, are 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: Special Educational Needs (25 Apr 2023)

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 147,900 children, including over 18,300 children with special educational needs, are 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: Schools Building Projects (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: As you are aware an agreement was secured to guarantee and support the roll-out and continuation of my Department’s ambitious school building programme. The agreement reached on 5 April is facilitating the continued roll-out of urgently required school building projects in both mainstream and special education settings, including the 58 projects that were temporarily paused due to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for individual school authorities, subject to procedures agreed upon under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). The Department does not currently collate data on vacant posts in schools per county. The recruitment of teachers is a priority area of action for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy, that the Boards of Management of schools are the direct employers of teachers. My Department acts as paymaster on behalf of primary schools, voluntary secondary, community and comprehensive schools. Once an allocation of teaching posts has been made for schools then directly recruit and employ teachers. Accordingly, my Department does not have details of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The current number of live studies, reviews and research projects in progress, undertaken or commissioned by my Department is set out in the table below. Title of current study/ review / research undertaken or commissioned End Date OECD Review of Calculated Grades and Accredited Grades Q2 2023 Thematic evaluation on provision and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: DEIS is the main policy initiative of my Department to tackle educational disadvantage at school level. Schools in the DEIS Programme are required to develop and implement three-year improvement plans as a condition of their participation in DEIS. Targets are set under key themes, such as attendance, retention, progression, literacy and numeracy, partnership, transition, well-being and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission (SEC), has responsibility for the operation, delivery and development of the State examinations. The SEC has not confirmed a date on which the Leaving Certificate 2023 results will be issued. However, it continues to work intensively to prepare for the examinations process. There were a number of factors that affected the timing of results of State...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: On 7 March 2023 the Government approved the establishment of a scoping inquiry to inform the Government response to revelations of historical sexual abuse in day and boarding schools run by religious orders. The Lead of the scoping inquiry will, having regard to the outcomes sought by survivors, make recommendations on the scope and breath of the response that could also form a template for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The abuse of children in any setting is a heinous crime and every effort should be made to bring the perpetrator to justice through the courts system. All reports of alleged abuse should be reported to the Gardaí. My Department takes child protection very seriously and considers that the protection and welfare of children is a fundamental responsibility of all involved in the care...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: A Minister-owned school site, Coláiste Chiaráin in Leixlip, has been identified as an option for potential redevelopment to accommodate a second school. The Trustees of Coláiste Chiaráin have agreed to allow the installation of temporary interim modular accommodation to meet the urgent accommodation needs for Leixlip ETNS for September 2023 and 2024. My Department also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: DEIS is the main policy initiative of my Department to tackle educational disadvantage at school level. Schools in the DEIS Programme are required to develop and implement three-year improvement plans as a condition of their participation in DEIS. Targets are set under key themes, such as attendance, retention, progression, literacy and numeracy, partnership, transition, well-being and...