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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application for additional school accommodation (ASA) from the school authority in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy will be delivered under my Department's ADAPT Programme. The ADAPT Programme uses a professional external Project Manager to co-ordinate and drive the Design Team to achieve the best possible timeframe for the project through the stages of Architectural Planning to Tender and Construction. The brief for this project is to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide funding specifically for unforeseen emergencies, or to provide funding to facilitate inclusion and access for pupils with special needs. It does so by ensuring the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are in need of resources as a result of an emergency situation. An emergency is deemed to be a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that to date the school in question has not submitted an application for capital funding, under my Department's Additional School Accommodation Scheme. The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Island Communities (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The purpose of the Remote Area Boarding Grant scheme is to give students who are disadvantaged because of their remoteness from schools an opportunity to attend school on the same basis as students not so disadvantaged. The terms of this scheme are set out in Circular 16/2016 which is published on the Department’s website at - . Under the terms of the scheme, a second-level school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has received direct EU funding for the following current and capital works projects in 2023 and to date in 2024: Project Description Project Type 2023 2024 to-date EU contribution to The Centre for European Schooling Current Project €317,883 €0 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Completion Programme (SCP) is funded by my Department via Tulsa Education Support Service (TESS) and is a central element of the DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) programme, a key policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. TESS have operational responsibility for the SCP, with Local Projects operating under the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: Since 2020, my department has invested over €5 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 950 school building projects and with construction currently underway at approximately 350 other projects, which includes 37 new school buildings. These 350 projects currently at construction involve a total State investment of over €1.5bn. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is not in receipt of a current application for the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. The purpose of my Department’s ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for pupils enrolled each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department does not currently have refurbishment works in progress at the school referred to by the Deputy. The major building project for the school will deliver a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school and accommodation, including two classrooms, for children with special educational needs. The project is being delivered under my Department's Design and Build programme in two phases. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide funding specifically for unforeseen emergencies, or to provide funding to facilitate inclusion and access for pupils with special needs. It does so by ensuring the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are in need of resources as a result of an emergency situation. An emergency is deemed to be a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Completion Programme (SCP) is funded by my Department via Tulsa Education Support Service (TESS) and is a central element of the DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) programme, a key policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. TESS have operational responsibility for the SCP, with Local Projects operating under the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I understand the Deputy is referring to the public consultation on the draft revised specifications for three science subjects at Senior Cycle - Biology, Chemistry and Physics - which took place from December 8th, 2023, to February 23rd, 2024. The aim of this consultation, led by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), was to seek views of the public in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Appointments (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I understand the Deputy is referring to the revised ExGratia scheme which operated from July 2021 to July 2023. The ExGratia scheme was developed to implement the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment in O'Keeffe v Ireland, which concerned sexual abuse in day schools. The scheme, which was developed in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, provided for ex gratia...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that approval has issued for the provision of 2 Engineering/Construction Studies Rooms,1 x DCG Room, 1 x Graphics Room & 3 x SEN (Including Central Activities Space) via reconfiguration, under the Additional School Accommodation scheme at the school in question. This project is being delivered under the Department’s Devolved SEN...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The school in question to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for roof works works. The EWS operates on the basis of a minimal scope of works and the school was advised to submit a revised scope of works with an accompanying itemised cost breakdown. Once this is received the EWS team will review the revised application and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. This includes over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my department is in receipt of an Additional School Accommodation (ASA) application from the school in question. The school received approval in 2023 under my Departments Modular Accommodation Programme for the provision of 1x special education classroom and 1x mainstream classroom which are currently occupied on site. In September 2024 the school...