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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (24 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 263 and 264 together. I announced on 9 March, 2022 the expansion of the DEIS programme benefitting 347 schools. These schools were identified as having the highest levels of educational disadvantage. In the 2022/23 academic year there will be 1,194 schools in the DEIS Programme - 960 Primary and 234 Post Primary. This will also mean a €32million...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (24 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I announced on 9 March, 2022 the expansion of the DEIS programme benefitting 347 schools. These schools were identified as having the highest levels of educational disadvantage. In the 2022/23 academic year there will be 1,194 schools in the DEIS Programme - 960 Primary and 234 Post Primary. This will also mean a €32million increase in my Department's expenditure on DEIS programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (24 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I announced on 9 March, 2022 the expansion of the DEIS programme benefitting 347 schools. These schools were identified as having the highest levels of educational disadvantage. In the 2022/23 academic year there will be 1,194 schools in the DEIS Programme - 960 Primary and 234 Post Primary. This will also mean a €32million increase in my Department's expenditure on DEIS programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (24 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I announced on 9 March, 2022 the expansion of the DEIS programme benefitting 347 schools. These schools were identified as having the highest levels of educational disadvantage. In the 2022/23 academic year there will be 1,194 schools in the DEIS Programme - 960 Primary and 234 Post Primary. This will also mean a €32million increase in my Department's expenditure on DEIS programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (24 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: On 9th March, 2022 I announced the expansion of the DEIS programme benefitting 347 schools. These schools were identified as having the highest levels of educational disadvantage. In the 2022/23 academic year there will be 1,194 schools in the DEIS Programme - 960 Primary and 234 Post Primary. This will also mean a €32million increase in my Department's expenditure on DEIS programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Stádas Scoile (24 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: Foilsítear na critéir a úsáidtear chun múinteoirí a leithdháileadh ar scoileanna gach bliain ar shuíomh gréasáin na Roinne. Is scoileanna Bord Oideachais agus Oiliúna (BOO) iad na scoileanna a bhfuil an Teachta ag tagairt dóibh. Soláthraíonn an Roinn leithdháileadh foirne do gach BOO agus is faoi...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (24 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I announced on the 9th March, 2022 the expansion of the DEIS programme benefitting 347 schools. These schools were identified as having the highest levels of educational disadvantage. In the 2022/23 academic year there will be 1,194 schools in the DEIS Programme - 960 Primary and 234 Post Primary. This will also mean a €32million increase in my Department's expenditure on DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (24 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I announced on the 9th March, 2022 the expansion of the DEIS programme benefitting 347 schools. These schools were identified as having the highest levels of educational disadvantage. In the 2022/23 academic year there will be 1,194 schools in the DEIS Programme - 960 Primary and 234 Post Primary. This will also mean a €32million increase in my Department's expenditure on DEIS...

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

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to has been approved for a project under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme 2022. This project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority and will provide for the following accommodation at the school; One Mainstream Classroom and One SET Room. I can advise the Deputy that a proposal to combine this approval...

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

Norma Foley: It is open to a pension scheme member to consider applying for early retirement on the grounds of ill health where a serious medical condition exists. The granting of retirement on grounds of ill-health is not automatic. An applicant must apply to my Department and separately, in consultation with his/her medical advisers, submit medical evidence on the condition, directly to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Mar 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 the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: As recently announced, the Teaching Council is now working to put processes and procedures in place to support the registration and vetting of 3rd and 4th year student teachers. In addition, pending the development of those processes and procedures by the Teaching Council, the Department of Education has made a temporary amendment to Regulation 7 of the Education Act 1998 (Unregistered...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (23 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. 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. Under the terms of the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: 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 where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation. This situation can arise where an additional teaching post has been sanctioned by Teacher Allocation Section...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (23 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has engaged the services of the company to which she refers in her question during the period 2011 to March 2022. This company provided services on 25 occasions during this period for a total value of €12,552.96. The breakdown of the annual cost of these services is set out in the attached table. Word Perfect Translations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: The planned establishment of a new post-primary school in 2021 to serve the Sallynoggin_Killiney_DLR/Cherrywood school planning area was announced in 2018 as a result of a countrywide demographic exercise. Further analysis has since been conducted on the necessity for the establishment of a number of planned new schools, including the school to serve this school planning area, taking into...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (23 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that new schools are established by the Department on the basis of identified demographic demand in an area, and after consideration of the capacity of existing schools to absorb the expected school place demand. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, the Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (23 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92 to 94, inclusive, together. The position in respect of school amalgamations is that the decision making authority belongs to the patron of the school in question. Any proposal to amalgamate a school requires consultation with the relevant stakeholders including parents, teachers, students and local communities. Such proposals must then be agreed with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (23 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department launched a two-year action research project in 2021 aimed at supporting small rural schools by encouraging a number of small schools to cluster together in local groups enabling them to collaborate and identify common challenges and trial innovative solutions. This project was developed by a working group of school management bodies and teachers’ unions with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (23 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 96 and 97 together. My Department launched a two-year action research project in 2021 aimed at supporting small rural schools by encouraging a number of small schools to cluster together in local groups, enabling them to collaborate and identify common challenges and trial innovative solutions. This project was developed by a working group of school management...