Results 11,401-11,420 of 20,013 for speaker:Norma Foley

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a book grant to all recognised primary and post primary schools within the Free Education Scheme in order to provide assistance for books including Book Rental Schemes. Under this scheme, my Department provided funding of €17.2 million in 2021 to all of these schools. Schools participating in my Department’s DEIS Programme receive an enhanced rate of book...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 children with special educational needs, are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €289m in 2021. It should be noted that of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: There are 3,240 primary schools and 728 post-primary schools in the state. The above figures are taken from the 2021-2022 preliminary enrolment data which was published in December 2021. This will be replaced by the final enrolment data for 2021-2022 which we expect to publish end of June 2022. www.gov.ie/en/collection/primary-schools/www.gov. ie/en/collection/post-primary-schools/.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: In order to inform my Department’s National Inventory of School Capacity, as part of the annual Schools Data Collection, schools have been asked to report the total number of classrooms within their existing accommodation.  These rooms may include general classrooms for mainstream education, classrooms being utilised to provide for pupils with special education needs, classrooms...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: Please find below the requested information. The data is for the 2020-21 academic year the most recent year we have final enrolment data available. We will update the table as soon as the final enrolment data for 2021-2022 is published, end of June 2022.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may 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 (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: Please find attached allocated posts for the 2021/2022 academic year, broken down by primary/post-primary. As requested, "Language/Learning Support Teachers" and "Special Classes/Schools Teachers" are excluded. As the academic year is not complete this data is provisional. Sector Total posts excluding "Language/Learning Support Teachers" and "Special Classes/Schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Government Communications (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I can be contacted at the following address; Minister's Office Address:Minister's Office, Department of Education, Marlborough Street, Dublin, D01 RC96 Email: Minister@education.gov.ie Phone number:(01) 889 6400 Minister Madigan can be contacted directly at; Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion, Department of Education, Marlborough Street, Dublin, D01 RC96 Email:...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: Teacher allocations to all second level schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. The criteria for the allocation of posts (including Guidance Counselling) are communicated to school managements annually and are available on the Department website. My Department has committed considerable resources towards the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 children with special educational needs, are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €289m in 2021.  The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 420 and 421 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that in order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: For the 2020-21 academic year, there were 588 sixth-class pupils with home addresses in the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf school planning area (SPA). For the 2021-22 academic year, 325 pupils remained in the SPA to attend their first year in a post-primary school within the catchment, while 263 pupils left the SPA to attend schools in neighbouring SPAs. There were 683 first-years...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The CSO compiled population projections for the 8 NUTS3 Regional Authority Areas classified by age and sex for the period 2017 - 2036.  The further breakdown by area (e.g. Killester, Raheny and Clontarf ) is not available. The regional CSO projections data, based on 2016 Census results, is published here: . Additionally, Department compiled schools enrolment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department provides PE halls with the construction of all new post primary schools. These facilities may also be provided where a major building or refurbishment project is being delivered for an existing school. My Department is working to compile the available data requested by the Deputy and I will arrange for this information to be sent directly to the Deputy as soon as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department is at the forefront of design with respect to sustainable energy in school buildings and this performance has been recognised at both National and International level with sustainable energy awards for excellence in Design and Specification. Schools that are designed and built in accordance with the Departments Schools technical guidance documents must achieve an A3 Building...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department has a large pipeline of projects for delivery under the school building programme. The main elements of this pipeline currently involve in excess of 1,300 school building projects for delivery under the Department’s Large Scale and Additional Accommodation Scheme. These projects are currently in progress across the various stages of planning, design, tender and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The terms and conditions of the Career Break Scheme for teachers is contained in my Department’s Circular Letter 54/2019 (Chapter 7). Where a Career Break is approved, it must be for a minimum period of one school year.  The Career Break may be extended, subject to employer approval, on an annual basis not to exceed five years at any one time, up to a maximum of 10...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The Letter of Acceptance (LOA) issued to the preferred tenderer on the 18thMay 2022 commencing the school building contract for the school referred to by the Deputy.  The construction programme underpinning the contract will be provided by the Contractor shortly and my Department will advise the school as soon as possible in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The average primary class size for academic year 2020-2021 was 23.3 as published in the Statistical Bulletin-July 2021, link below;  . We expect to publish the final primary enrolments for 2021-2022 including class tables by the end of June 2022. We will then be in a position to provide the average primary class size for 2021-2022.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 May 2022)

Norma Foley: As per the preliminary enrolment figures for 2021-2022, published in December 2021, there are 546,121 pupils enrolled in mainstream primary schools and  8,682 pupils enrolled in special schools; assets.gov.ie/212274/d521dc50-7b9d-4207-9e72-48e01054ab4f.xl sx.  We expect to publish the final primary enrolments for 2021-2022 by the end of June 2022 and the...