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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). The Department approved a submission from the school authority to increase the original brief in the context of a significant increase in projected new enrolments in the area. This allowed for a project to cater for a 1,000 pupil school plus 6 special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: The school project to which the Deputy refers, has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a programme of school building projects. The project commenced on site in October 2023 and has a current expected completion date of Q2 2026. The NDFA are engaging directly with the school authority to keep it informed of progress. The current status...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Jan 2025)

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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at Stage 3, Tender Action & Award. The brief for this project is to provide a new 13 classroom school plus accommodation for pupils with special educational needs and the demolition of the existing buildings at the current school site. The Design Team had submitted the tender report to my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Jan 2025)

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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: My Department is providing a payroll service for school secretaries with effect from 1st September 2023. The provision of a payroll service is part of a package agreed with Fórsa, the trade union representing school secretaries, following a series of engagements at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and also includes revised terms and conditions for secretaries. The Agreement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: The criteria for the award of incremental credit are set out in the Department of Education’s Circulars 10/2001 for primary teachers, and 29/2007 and 29/2010 for post-primary teachers. The criteria for the award of incremental credit to recognised teachers was agreed under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council (TCC). As indicated previously to the Deputy in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: My department’s main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in the area. Parents have the right to choose which school to apply to and where the school has places available for the relevant year, the student should be admitted. However, in schools where there are more applicants than places available, a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. The purpose of the Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: 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 the Department of Education. Under the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, parents have the right to choose which school to apply to and where the school has places available...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: 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 the Department of Education. Under the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, parents have the right to choose which school to apply to and where the school has places available...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a wide range of supports to all schools, DEIS and non-DEIS, to support the inclusion of all students and address barriers to students achieving their potential. Supplementing the universal supports available to all schools, the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy initiative of my department to address concentrated educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: I would like to thank the Deputy for your correspondence in relation to steps my Department is taking to address gender-based violence and harassment in higher educational institutions. The Government takes a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, as is set out in the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: I understand that the Deputy's question relates to the Reasonable Accommodations at Certified Examinations Scheme, known as the RACE Scheme. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has responsibility for operational matters relating to the state examinations, including RACE, and in view of this I have forwarded the question to the SEC for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Jan 2025)

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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Jan 2025)

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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: n order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, the Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas. The Department uses a Geographic Information System (GIS), which facilitates the analysis of data from a range of sources, including CSO Census data, Child Benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: The 2020 Programme for Government committed to establishing four citizens' assemblies on the topics of biodiversity loss, the type of directly elected mayor and local government structures best suited for Dublin, matters relating to drugs use and the future of education. Three of these Citizens’ Assemblies were held during the term of the last government. At this point in time,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (22 Jan 2025)

Norma Foley: For historical reasons, most primary schools are State-aided parish schools, with the local Bishop as patron. It is recognised, including by the Catholic patrons, that more diverse provision is required to cater for our changing society. The Department of Education’s ‘Schools Recon?guration for diversity process’ supports the transfer of schools from denominational...