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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: There are four state-funded higher education institutions (HEIs) providing primary initial teacher education (ITE) and one independent private provider of primary ITE. The current requirements for Gaeltacht Learning Periods (GLPs) for primary Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes takes the form of 2 x 2 week placements, which are outlined in the Teaching Council’s Céim:...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 685 and 721 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has informed the school patron that the accommodation brief for the building project in question is being prepared and that my Department will be in further contact with the patron when this process has been completed.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: My Department has a strong track record of delivery of school building projects and this was achieved again in 2022 notwithstanding the wider construction sector environment of high inflation, labour shortages and supply chain issues. Under Project Ireland 2040, we are investing €4.4 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: More than €362 million of additional Covid-19 Capitation grant funding has been made available to recognised primary and post primary schools to provide for the implementation of infection prevention and control measures to reduce the risk of the spread of COVID -19 to date. As the Deputy is aware, the continued payment of Covid-19 capitation grants is determined by the prevailing...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: Transition Year is a valuable programme for students that offers opportunities for life skills, personal, social and academic development and experience of adult and working life. Transition Year has a unique and important value in the life of students. Currently over seventy per cent of students avail of Transition Year. On 29 March last year, I announced that Transition Year should be...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has responsibility for the operation, delivery and development of the State examinations. The SEC provides examinations in a range of subjects in the language area referred to as the non-curricular EU languages. These are languages which do not appear as part of the normal school curriculum but in which students may opt to be examined if they meet...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: My Department has a strong track record of delivery of school building projects and this was achieved again in 2022 notwithstanding the wider construction sector environment of high inflation, labour shortages and supply chain issues. Under Project Ireland 2040, we are investing €4.4 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, 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 scoping inquiry was established in response to recent revelations of historical sexual abuse in a number of day and boarding schools run by religious...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: My Department has a strong track record of delivery of school building projects and this was achieved again in 2022 notwithstanding the wider construction sector environment of high inflation, labour shortages and supply chain issues. Under Project Ireland 2040, we are investing €4.4 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: My Department has a strong track record of delivery of school building projects and this was achieved again in 2022 notwithstanding the wider construction sector environment of high inflation, labour shortages and supply chain issues. Under Project Ireland 2040, we are investing €4.4 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was granted approval under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for the following provision: 5 x General Classrooms, 1 x Science lab (replacement of temporary unit) 7 x General Classrooms, 2 Classroom SEN base, 1 x SET room, 2 x Science lab, 2 x Science Prep area, 1x Music room, 1x Art room, 1x DCG (Design and...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: Due to the risk of disclosing information on individuals, school-level data on the enrolment of Ukrainian pupils in schools in Co. Wicklow cannot be provided. As per the recent Department of Education press release, as of 1stMarch 2023 there were 305 pupils enrolled in primary schools and 177 in post-primary schools in County Wicklow. The full press release is available here:...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 697, 698 and 699 together. My Department has a strong track record of delivery of school building projects and this was achieved again in 2022 notwithstanding the wider construction sector environment of high inflation, labour shortages and supply chain issues. Under Project Ireland 2040, we are investing €4.4 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: Thank you for your query to the Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD in relation to the free schoolbooks scheme for primary schools. Budget 2023 provided additional funding to provide free schoolbooks to primary school pupils enrolled in recognised primary schools, including special schools, from September 2023. The measure will eliminate the cost to families for all school books,...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Mar 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: School Transport (21 Mar 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: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 705 and 756 together. The permanent school building project for the site referred to by the Deputy is a campus project to deliver a 1,000 pupil post-primary school and accommodation, including four classrooms, for children with special educational needs and a 16 classroom primary school and accommodation, including two classrooms, for children with special...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: The project for school mentioned by the Deputy is in early architectural planning which involves site surveys, school design stages and the preparation of statutory applications. It is anticipated that the planning application for the permanent school referred to by the Deputy will be lodged in Q2 2023. My Department must then await a decision on planning from the local authority. A...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: I will issue a response directly to the Deputy on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)
Norma Foley: The project referred to by the deputy has been devolved for delivery to Dublin & Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB).The brief for this project is extremely complex. This resulted in a more difficult than usual and protracted process of preparation of tender documentation. The original brief provided for a 27 classroom brief on a difficult site and it failed to...