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

Norma Foley: The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authority, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). In accordance with the Department 's recruitment and appointment Circular 0031/2011 (post primary) which is available on my Department’s website...

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

Norma Foley: The Department of Education is engaging with education stakeholders about the difficulty being experienced by schools in accessing substitutes for teacher absences at this time. It is recognised that there are continuing pressures in this area. As part of a broad range of measures being progressed to address immediate issues, the Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) support service has deferred...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (26 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, for school planning purposes, 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. Additionally, Project...

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

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of surplus permanent teachers to other schools where vacancies exist. Ensuring efficiency in the annual redeployment processes is significant in terms of managing the overall teacher numbers.At Post-Primary level, following discussions between the relevant stakeholders a voluntary redeployment scheme has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Jan 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: Schools Refurbishment (26 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department recognises the importance of the Minor Works Grant to primary schools. The funding provides good flexibility at local level to assist schools to manage and undertake works that support the operation of the school. I can confirm to the Deputy that the Minor Works Grant for primary schools for the current school year was paid in December 2021 - in order to give schools a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department received an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. My Departments Professional and Technical staff are currently carrying out a technical assessment to determine if the special classes can be accommodated in the school building. On completion of the assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department received an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. This application is under consideration by my officials. On completion of the assessment process a decision will be relayed directly to the school authorities.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (26 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I would like to thank the Deputy for his question on the provision of homework. It would not be appropriate to comment on the office of the President. The Department acknowledges that homework can play an important part in helping students to prepare for forthcoming classwork and in reinforcing work already covered during class time, however, it is a matter for each school, at local...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: 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: School Transport (26 Jan 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...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I will be absolutely honest and say that I am very aware of Deputy Ó Laoghaire's personal engagement in relation to this matter. I will not lead the Deputy astray regarding the date. I will check it and get back to the Deputy today with the information. I want to reiterate that I am very cognisant of and I fully understand the importance of the view of the survivors being at the heart...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: Tuigim féin agus an Roinn Oideachais cé chomh tábhachtach is atá an cheist seo. Tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach. Tá an-chuid oibre déanta go dtí an pointe seo agus táim buíoch den Teachta as an seans é sin a chur os comhair an Teach seo. I thank the Deputy and I want to acknowledge his personal engagement and interest in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the accommodation brief for the proposed building project for the school referred to is currently being developed and my Department will be in contact with the school authorities as soon as this process has been completed.

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

Norma Foley: The teacher redeployment arrangements are reviewed annually by my Department involving the education stakeholders, including teacher unions and management bodies. As part of the review, the Education Stakeholders can raise issues or concerns with the Department in relation to the operation of the redeployment process generally. It is open to members of the school community to liaise with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Jan 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: Mental Health Services (25 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary schools. The NEPS service provides access for all schools to: - Psychological support in the event of a Critical Incident - A Casework Service for individual children where there is a need for intensive consultation and assessment via a NEPS...

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

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that funding was approved under the Additional School Accommodation scheme for the construction of the required additional capacity at the St Johns College De La Salle, Le Fanu Road site. This additional accommodation encompasses provision for 6 general classrooms, 3 SET rooms, 2 Science labs with 1 prep area, 1 Home Economics room, 1 Textiles Room, 1 Art...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As part of Budget 2023, I announced over €50 million to provide free books to primary school pupils within the free education scheme from September 2023. This measure will eliminate the cost to these families for all school books at primary school, including workbooks. It delivers on the Programme for Government commitment to extend the free school book pilot, currently in 102 DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: Work is progressing to advance a Traveller Education Strategy in line with the Programme for Government commitment. Work currently underway that will inform the development of the Traveller Education Strategy includes: - work underway by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) to support teaching and learning of Traveller history and culture, which follows the 2019 audit of...