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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Chief State Solicitor's Office on behalf of the Department has been engaging with the property owners’ legal representative on the draft lease for the school property referred to by the Deputy for some time. The vast majority of the clauses in the draft lease are agreed. Work is continuing on addressing the final few outstanding terms of the draft lease and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (23 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Programme for Government states that ‘this Government will develop inclusive and age appropriate curricula for Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) and Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) across primary and post-primary schools, including an inclusive programme on LGBTI+ relationships and make appropriate legislative changes, if necessary’. In April 2018,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department has committed considerable resources towards the restoration of guidance counselling hours to post-primary schools, to the provision of CPD for guidance counsellors and to the provision of a national guidance counselling supervision service for post-primary guidance counsellors in recent times. The guidance allocation is provided separately and transparently on each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Planning Issues (23 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department is a statutory consultee to the local authority development planning process and participates actively in the process. The Planning and Building Unit of my Department examines the draft development plans for each  local authority to assess the implications in terms of projected school requirements. My Department then makes a submission at draft plan stage,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Deputy will be aware that a building project for the school in question is included in my Department's school building programme.  The brief for the proposed project is being completed with a view to progressing the project into the architectural planning process in the coming weeks. My Department will be in contact with the school at that point.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (23 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department in undertaking assessment of potential acquisitions has regard to the suitability, deliverability and value for money of the property. My Department made contact with the owner of the property in this case expressing an interest in acquiring it. However, it did not prove possible to reach agreement with the owner on the sale of the property. Having regard to value for money and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (23 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: All primary and post primary schools may apply for funding to address a range of capital works, under my Department's capital schemes, including the Major Projects scheme, Additional Accommodation scheme, Summer Works scheme and Emergency Works scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Jun 2021)

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 schedule operates in a clear and transparent manner and treats all similar types of schools equally irrespective of location. For the 2021/22 school year, an improvement of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: On June 14th 2021, a total of 10 projects were tendered to the Design and Build Contractors Framework and are listed below in tabular form. Roll Number School Name 76333G Carrigtwohill Community School, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork 20442U Scoil Chliodhna Community National School, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Jun 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 (22 Jun 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 (22 Jun 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: School Transport (22 Jun 2021)

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 114,100 children, including over 14,700 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 €224.7m in 2020. The purpose of the scheme is,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the current school year over 114,100 children, including over 14,700 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 €224.7m in 2020. The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department conducted an exercise on the necessity for the establishment of a new post-primary school in the Donaghmede/Howth/Dublin13/Baldoyle/Stapolin school planning area in 2022, taking into account a number of factors, including the pace of delivery of the expected additional residential development in this school planning area, associated enrolments and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools is published annually on the Department's website.  The school to which the Deputy refers is an Education and Training Board (ETB) school. The Department provides a staffing allocation to each ETB and the distribution of this staffing allocation including Small School posts is a matter for the Chief...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I am not in a position to comment on individual cases or schools.  However, I can say that the ex gratia scheme was established on foot of the specific circumstances arising from and in response to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) relating to Louise O'Keeffe.  The Department undertook a review of the scheme in response to a determination by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that a permanent site option for the new Killester/Raheny/Clontarf ETNS has been identified and it is in the school planning area.  Due to the sensitive nature of site acquisitions in general, it is not possible to give further details at this time. It is difficult to indicate a timeframe for any site acquisition as each process is unique and in some instances complex...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Jun 2021)

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 schedule operates in a clear and transparent manner and treats all similar types of schools equally irrespective of location. For the 2021/22 school year, an improvement of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department does not hold details of school building projects by electoral area.  My Department operates on the basis of school planning areas. My Department has a large pipeline of projects for delivery under the school building programme to cater for current and future educational demands, including schools in the geographic school planning area...