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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: A major building project to provide a permanent school building for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently being delivered under the Department’s Design and Build Programme . The new school building will provide a new 16 classroom primary school and accommodation including 4 classrooms for children with special education needs, on the permanent site off Coolamber Drive,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Since 2020, my department has invested over €6 billion in our schools throughout the country under the National Development Plan, involving the completion of over 1,400 school building projects. Government support for this investment, including by way of supplementary capital funding, has delivered real benefits for school communities. The Government has now concluded the review of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for me as Minister for Education and Youth, and for the Government. The DEIS programme is a key policy of Government to tackle concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. It provides a targeted range of supports and is additional to the universal supports provided to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staffing of the Department of Education and Youth was 2037.66 as at the end of April 2025. The grade breakdown is detailed below: Grade FTE Secretary General 1.00 Assistant Secretary 9.00 Principal Officer 54.70 Assistant Principal Officer ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department does not have a policy or a goal with regard to the in-sourcing of IT requirements. My Department’s CIO division provides digital and ICT services to my Department, as a shared service to DFHERIS and facilitates wider shared service provision to the sector. ICT and digital are pivotal to the delivery of education and training, research and innovation and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy has recently been approved to progress to Stage 2(b) of Architectural Planning – Detailed Design, where all statutory approvals are secured, and the suite of tender documents are prepared. This major project is being delivered under the Department of Education’s ADAPT Programme. The ADAPT Programme uses...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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. Like many sectors, recruitment challenges exist in the education sector, for teachers including Irish language teachers. While most teaching positions are filled, some schools face significant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Investment and expenditure on PE Halls is an element of the overall School Building Programme. The provision of GP rooms and PE Halls, at primary and post primary level respectively, and outdoor hard play areas, form part of the accommodation brief for all new school buildings. A future strengthened focus on refurbishment of existing school stock will have different strands and will include...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school building project referred to by the Deputy is included in the Department of Education and Youths’ Construction Programme. The brief for the project is the delivery of a new 1,000 pupil post primary school and accommodation including 6 classrooms for children with special educational needs. The project will be delivered under my Department's ADAPT 4 Programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Following clarification from the Deputy, my Department understand the query relates to ADAPT 4 - Programme Innovate. Since 2020, my Department has invested over €6 billion in our schools throughout the country under the National Development Plan, involving the completion of over 1,400 school building projects. Government support for this investment, including by way of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Following clarification with the Deputy, my Department understands the parliamentary question refers to ADAPT 4- Programme Innovate. These are technical reports for use by the Integrated Design Teams (IPT) in relation to facilitating the development of project briefs into the initial stages of design and ultimately through detailed design and procurement stages. Such documentation is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Following clarification from the Deputy, my Department understands this parliamentary question refers to ADAPT 4 - Programme Innovate. An external professional Programme Manager has been appointed by my Department to co-ordinate and drive Integrated Project Teams (IPTs) to achieve the best possible timeframe for the projects through the stages of Architectural Planning, to Tender and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for me as Minister for Education and Youth. The DEIS programme is a key policy of government to tackle concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. It provides a targeted range of supports and is additional to the universal supports provided to all schools, such as the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the State examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to the Deputy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the State examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the State examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme to provide 23 general classrooms, 5 SET/pastoral rooms, 1 Multimedia room, 1 DCG room, 3 Science labs and 2 prep areas, 1 Home Economics room, 1 Art room, 1 Construction Studies room, 1 Engineering Room, 1 Tech prep room, 3 Project stores, 1 Staff room, 1 GP/Dining room and a 2 classroom SEN...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 of mine. Since 2020, my Department has invested over €6 billion in our schools throughout the country under the National Development Plan, involving...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: In Budget 2025, my Department announced that the free schoolbooks scheme would be extended to students in Senior Cycle years, including Transition Year, in post-primary schools in the Free Education Scheme. This brings the total investment for schoolbooks to over €170 million for the 2025/26 school year. This means, for the first time ever, all children and young people enrolled in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: All schools are required to deliver physical education as part of the curriculum. Physical Education supports the development of physical, cognitive, psychological and social capabilities. 1999 Curriculum: The current Physical Education (PE) curriculum was introduced as part of the Primary School Curriculum (1999). It provides a balanced range of activities for children through the six...