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

Norma Foley: Under the Education Act 1998, the question of enrolment policy in individual schools, including the setting of catchment areas, is the responsibility of the board of management on behalf of the school patron. The selection process and the enrolment policy on which it is based must be non-discriminatory and must be applied fairly in respect of all applicants. However, this may result in some...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The Home Tuition Grant Scheme is a short-term measure available to provide funding towards the provision of a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of specific reasons, are unable to attend school. It is an interim measure only and is not intended to be an optional alternative to a school placement. The Department of Education operates four categories of home...

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

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 147 and 149 together. The information for the years requested by the Deputy, from 2019 to 2022, is available on my Department's website at the link below. Statistical data on the breakdown of the number of teachers employed within each particular County, is not collated and published annually, and is therefore not readily available.

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

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 148 and 150 together. Please find attached requested data for years 2019 to 2023, 2023 being the latest year we have final enrolment data. Please note enrolment data is taken from the Primary and Post Primary Online Databases. All enrolments are as per the census date, the 30th of September, in each academic year. Longford Academic Year...

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

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools 2027, which builds on the progress made under the previous Digital Strategy (2015-2020), is underpinned by an investment of some €200m included in the National Development Plan 2021-2030 providing continuity of funding following the €210m that issued to schools to support the previous strategy. To date, €100m of that funding has issued to...

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

Norma Foley: My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary, and special schools. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to support students, access to a NEPS psychologist for responses to...

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

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department received 6 applications from Longford and 3 applications from Westmeath for major capital funding, through the Additional School Accommodation(ASA) scheme. I can also confirm that in 2024 my Department approved funding for 8 projects in Longford and 10 projects in Co Westmeath. The purpose of the Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) scheme...

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 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: 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: School Staff (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The information for the years requested by the Deputy, from 2019 to 2023, is available on my Department's website at the link below. www.gov.ie/en/publication/c97fbd-teacher-statistics/#number- of-teachers-by-gender-appointed-to-teaching-posts Statistical data on the breakdown of the number of teachers employed within each particular County, is not collated and published annually, and is...

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

Norma Foley: Please find attached requested data for years 2019 to 2023, 2023 being the latest year we for which we have final enrolment data. Please note enrolment data is taken from the Primary Online Database. All enrolments are as per the census date, the 30th of September, in each academic year. Academic Year (Enrolment) County Description Enrolment per Return ...

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

Norma Foley: The information for the years requested by the Deputy, from 2019 to 2023, is available on my Department's website at the link below. www.gov.ie/en/publication/c97fbd-teacher-statistics/#number- of-teachers-by-gender-appointed-to-teaching-posts Statistical data on the breakdown of the number of teachers employed within each particular County, is not collated and published annually, and is...

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

Norma Foley: The information requested by the Deputy is available in the attached table. Enrolment details for the 2024/25 school year are in the process of being collated and are not yet available. Pupils enrolled in Post Primary Schools in Kerry 2019 - 2023 Kerry Kerry Kerry Kerry Community Comprehensive ...

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

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools 2027, which builds on the progress made under the previous Digital Strategy (2015-2020), is underpinned by an investment of some €200m included in the National Development Plan 2021-2030 providing continuity of funding following the €210m that issued to schools to support the previous strategy. To date, €100m of that funding has issued to...

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

Norma Foley: As requested by the Deputy, please see attached table showing projects for schools in Kerry which were received by my Department and received initial approval in 2024. Please note that there are other school building projects in Co Kerry at various stages of progress. The Department's website provides a list, by county, of all projects being progressed under the large scale and additional...

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

Norma Foley: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day-to-day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance and general up-keep, and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

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

Norma Foley: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day-to-day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance and general up-keep, and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

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

Norma Foley: The Department of Education publishes details of the total number of teachers appointed to primary schools, and to Voluntary Secondary and Community and Comprehensive post primary Schools each year, and this information is available at gov - Teacher Statistics (www.gov.ie).