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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department is aware of increasing pressures and demand for additional school places in a number of school planning areas, including the school planning area Dolphins Barn D12. Where capacity issues arise it may not be as a result of lack of accommodation but may be driven by the following factors: - Duplication of applications – pupils have applied for a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers to was approved funding under the Additional Accommodation Scheme 2015 to provide for an additional resource room. This was devolved for delivery to the school but has not been progressed to date. The school has been informed to contact School Capital Appraisals Section of the Department if it wishes to appeal the scope of the project. I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: Freagra Tá polasaí nua don oideachas lán-Ghaeilge lasmuigh de cheantair Ghaeltachta á fhorbairt ag mo Roinn faoi láthair. Is í aidhm an pholasaí nua seo ná creat a chur ar fáil chun oideachas lán-Ghaeilge ar ardchaighdeán a sholáthar lasmuigh de cheantair Ghaeltachta. Tá obair pleanála ar fhorbairt an pholasaí nua ar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defective Building Materials (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: Once the presence of pyrite in the school referred to by the Deputy was established, my Department's Planning and Building Unit sought legal advice as to how to proceed. The matter has been referred to the Chief State Solicitor’s Office. The Deputy will appreciate that as this matter is still being dealt with by the Chief State Solicitors Office it is not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Solar Energy Guidelines (22 Mar 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: Traveller Community (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I am aware of the report and recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community report, which issued in November 2021. Officials from my Department engaged with the Joint Oireachtas Committee with regard to education matters. With regard to the recommendations pertaining to my Department, my Department provides a wide range of supports to all schools to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department has considered all options for the September 2022 interim accommodation for the school in question, including locating the school on the site of another post primary school in the town.  In considering available space on the other school site, the proposed development can be considered exempt under the planning exemption introduced in March 2021...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department publishes information in respect of all schools, including primary schools in the area to which the Deputy refers, on gov.ie DoE Statistics page: www.gov.ie/en/collection/primary-schools/#20212022. This includes details of the status of these schools as well as of enrolments. The Statistics page also provides information on school ethos. In the city of Dublin, the majority...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defective Building Materials (22 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 my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: The permanent accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme.   This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Management team to progress the project through the stages of architectural planning, tendering and construction.  My Department is considering the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: World Economic Forum (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education has not engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the World Economic Forum

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 490 and 460 together. As part of the Department's overall planning and preparatory work, a dedicated working group has been formed to consider language and cultural resources and supports for teachers and schools. The group includes representatives of the Department (including NEPs), its inspectorate, the teacher education support services, the NCCA and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: A revised ex gratia scheme to implement the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment in O'Keeffe v Ireland, which concerned sexual abuse in day schools, opened for applications in July 2021 and is due to remain open until July 2023. Full details in respect of the Scheme are available on www.gov.ie/en/service/90a42-revised-ex-gratia-scheme/.  Contact details for my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 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 my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 493, 494 and 495 together. Ownership and control of school property is a complex issue, both constitutionally and in terms of property law and rights. Typically, it can involve religious trusts, trustees, religious orders, the bishops both as landowners and school patrons and the State. Where a school property is in the Minister’s ownership, a leasing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware I recently announced that arrangements are being put in place in a number of towns and areas of cities that have no multi-denominational primary schools to identify potential schools and to engage with school authorities, school staff and the school communities with a view to agreeing on a transfer of patronage and change of ethos, where there is sufficient demand...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that it is open to School Authorities to apply for sewerage works under 'Category 4 Mechanical Works' of the Summer Works Scheme. The purpose of the Summer Works Scheme is to devolve funding to individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works which, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: The current status of the school building project for which the Deputy refers is at Site Identification Stage. My Department remains committed to providing permanent accommodation to meet the needs of the school.  As the Deputy may be aware, officials in my Department have been actively engaging with officials from Clare County Council in respect of a site in their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: Arrangements are currently being made for officials from my Department to meet with the five Deputies concerned in respect of the school referred to in the details supplied by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I am very aware of the disruption experienced by students who are due to take their Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate examinations this year. The State Examinations Commission, with my Department, has been progressing planning for these examinations, in consultation with the Advisory Group on Planning for the State Examinations, which met on a number of occasions to consider this matter. I...