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

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 and 168 together. Please find attached requested data. Data includes the number of primary and post-primary schools by County for the years 2011 to 2023. With 2023 being the last year we have final data for. I have also included the number of new primary and post-primary schools opened due to demographic reasons as well as the number of new primary...

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

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 and 172 together. Budget 2025 provides for an unprecedented €11.8 billion investment in education and schools, an increase of some 9 per cent on the same figure in Budget 2024. Currently there are almost 88,000 teaching posts allocated across the primary and post-primary school system. This represents an increase of over 10,000 teachers when...

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

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the departments pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide a 4 classroom SEN Base. The project was devolved to the school for delivery. I can confirm that this project received my departments approval to go to planning in July 2024, the department now awaits a post planning (developed design) report from the school for...

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

Norma Foley: Tusla Education Support Service (TESS) is the agency which can assist parents who are experiencing difficulty in securing a school place for their child. TESS can be contacted at 01-7718500 (tessinfo@tusla.ie) for assistance. More information is available on their website on the following link: www.tusla.ie/tess/tess-ews/. The Department understands that the parent was contacted by TESS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department along with the Government is committed to supporting the provision of appropriate education to children with disabilities. Budget 2025 provides for a record level of investment in special education with €2.9 billion of my Department’s overall budget allocated for special education. This represents 6% or a €159 million increase on the 2024 provision. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: In accordance with Department Circulars 0044/2019 and 0031/2011, schools are required to employ appropriately qualified and registered teachers and ensure that unemployed teachers should be offered employment in preference to those who have retired. The Department recognises the essential role of the SNA in enabling students with significant cares needs attend school. SNAs make a very...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (6 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 Transport (6 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 (6 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 Staff (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: Caretakers are valued members of our school communities who carry out work vital to the operations of our schools. Under the February 2022 agreement the implementation of revised salary and annual leave entitlements for school secretaries is now fully operational, and lessons learned from that process are now playing a key role in the drafting and implementation of a similar deal to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 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 Accommodation (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers, has a major project ongoing which is devolved for delivery to Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB). The execution of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between my Department and GRETB is currently being arranged. Once the SLA is in place, the ETB will procure a design team for the project to design the buildings, obtain the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers, has been devolved for delivery to Galway and Roscommon ETB. (GRETB) The execution of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between my Department and Galway and Roscommon ETB, which is currently being arranged, will be the next and last step in finalising this brief. Once the SLA is in place, the ETB will procure a design team for the project to design the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: Faigh iniata na sonraí iarrtha. Tá obair ar siúl i mo roinn faoi láthair chun polasaí nua a fhorbairt don oideachas lán-Ghaeilge lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht. Agus an polasaí nua á fhorbairt againn, beidh iniúchadh á dhéanamh ar bhealaí inar féidir cur leis an soláthar don oideachas lán-Ghaeilge.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The tender referred to by the Deputy relates to the procurement of the multi-disciplinary design team consultants to provide design services for the development of the schools' design as part of Phase 1 of the ADAPT 4 delivery programme. The tender documents were published on E-Tenders as required under Public Procurement Procedures. The tender competition is due to close before the end...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing arrangements includes an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain published criteria. The school referred to by the Deputy was successful in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The large scale capital project for the school referred to by the Deputy, is included in my Department’s construction programme which will be delivered under the National Development Plan (NDP) as part of Project Ireland 2040. The project is at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning Stage 3 - Tender Action and Award. The next step for the project will be the authorisation to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy will deliver a new 16 classroom primary school and accommodation, including 2 classrooms for children with special educational needs on the permanent site at Rathcoole, Co. Dublin. The project currently has planning permission and is, along with a number of other projects, being brought to the level of employer-led...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 76 and 80 together. The large scale capital project for the schools referred to by the Deputy, is included in my Department’s construction programme which will be delivered under the National Development Plan (NDP) as part of Project Ireland 2040. The project brief for the schools Campus, includes the phased construction of two 16 classroom primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The joint major building project for the schools referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning Stage 2(b) – Detailed Design, where the Design Team secure all statutory approvals and prepare the suite of tender documents. My Department met with both schools and their Design Team in December 2022 to discuss proposed changes to the school design...