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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (19 Jan 2022)

Norma Foley: Budget 2022 has provided for an allocation of €18million for 2022 and €32million for 2023 to extend the DEIS programme to further schools with the highest levels of disadvantage. This represents an increase of over 20% in funding for the DEIS programme and will enable an expansion in 2022 to additional schools. This package follows an extensive body of work which has been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Jan 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 in 2022.  Engagement on these issues by my Department has included contacts with the Irish Second Level Students' Union. Adjustments to the assessment arrangements for the 2022 state examinations that were announced in August 2021 were designed to take...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Jan 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations.  In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you. 

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (19 Jan 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, between 2016 and 2020 the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) undertook an extensive review of senior cycle programmes and vocational pathways. The NCCA’s Advisory Report on the Senior Cycle has been submitted to my Department for consideration. The Advisory Report maps out, in broad terms, an ambitious programme of work, which would...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Jan 2022)

Norma Foley: I am very much aware of the disruption experienced by students who are due to take their Leaving Certificate examinations in 2022. The State Examinations Commission (SEC), working with my Department, has put in place a number of measures to seek to take account of the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.    My Department will continue to engage with all partners in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Jan 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 in 2022. My Department will continue to engage with all partners in education on all matters relating to Leaving Certificate 2022 examinations. A meeting of the Advisory Group on State Examinations is planned for later this week. The group includes...

Covid-19: Statements (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to be here today with the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, to provide the House with an update on the important measures that we have taken to address the continuing the impact of Covid-19 on the educational experience of our children and young people. The operation of schools has been and continues to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: The school building project to which the Deputy refers has been approved funding under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme to enable the school to construct a purpose-built two-classroom SEN Base facility. Approval to progress this project to Tender Stage issued in June 2021. The project has been devolved for delivery to Dublin and Dún Laoghaire...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: The permanent school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy has been assigned to my Department’s Design & Build delivery programme.  This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Manager to progress the project through the relevant stages of architectural planning, tender and construction. The final grant of planning permission for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: The permanent school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design & Build programme. A planning application for interim accommodation for the school on its permanent site was lodged on the 26thMay 2021. A third party appeal of grant of planning permission was subsequently submitted to An Bord Pleanála...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: Remaining works for the school to which the Deputy refers need to be re-tendered.  The Design Team is currently in the process of preparing a scope of works package, for these works, which upon completion will be submitted to my Department for review and approval. Upon approval the project will then be authorisied to commence a pre-qualification process to select a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: The Letter of Acceptance (LOA) issued to the preferred tenderer on the 29thJuly 2021 commencing the school building contract for the school referred to by the Deputy.  The construction programme is 60 weeks with the new 16 classroom school expected to be completed in July 2022 and all external site works including the removal of current temporary accommodation to be completed by end...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: School secretaries are valued members of our school communities and my Department is fully aware of the vitally important role they play in the running of our schools.  The majority of primary and voluntary secondary schools receive assistance to provide for secretarial, caretaking and cleaning services under grant schemes. Where a school employs a staff member...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: The number of State boards under the remit of my Department and the number of members of each board is set out in the table below.  My Department does not collate information in relation to the number of persons on each board with a declared disability. Aegis Bodies under the remit of the Department Education. Number of members on the Board of each State Body ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, the school in question is included in my Department's school building programme for the construction of a sixteen-classroom school building, including a two classroom Special Education Needs Base. My Department expects to be in further contact with the school early in the new year regarding the progression of the project to the next stage.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: The payment of a minor works grant totalling €45m for primary schools and special schools, as part of additional support in the context of Covid-19, and a once-off Covid-19 minor works funding for post-primary schools of €17m announced on the 13th of December 2021 is paid automatically to schools in the free scheme with no onus on schools to make an application. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (16 Dec 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 386, 393, 395 to 397, inclusive, 400 and 401 together. My Department provides general purpose and PE halls with the construction of all new primary and post primary schools respectively. These facilities may also be provided where a major building or refurbishment project is being delivered for an existing school. Investment and expenditure on PE...