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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The School energy retrofit pathfinder programme is jointly funded from the Department of Education and Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. This Pathfinder is paving the way for, and informing, a much larger national schools programme for the energy retrofit of schools built prior to 2008 from 2023 onwards as included in the NDP. It is facilitating research on a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The patronage divesting process arises from the recommendations of the 2012 report of the Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector, following which the Department undertook surveys of parental preferences in 43 areas of stable population in 2012 and 2013 to establish the level of parental demand for a wider choice in the patronage of primary schools within...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: Within the past year, the key objectives and achievements for my department included the safe reopening of schools and the continuity of the Leaving Certificate amid the adversity and disruptions of the pandemic. A key objective of the Government’s plan for living with COVID-19 was that our children and school staff could attend school safely. On 27 July 2020 I published...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equality Issues (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: In recruiting Civil Servants the Human Resources Unit of my Department engage the Public Appointmente Service (PAS) which was established under the tersm of the Public Services management Act to provide recruitment, assessment and selection services for Civil and Public Service bodies. Part 5 of the Disability Act 2005 provides that public bodies promote and support the employment of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 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 (17 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 (16 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 my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (16 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The school authority is responsible for the Health & Safety of Children in their care, this would also apply to staff or parents using the school or its grounds. The safety issues mentioned by the school should be brought to the attention of the local Garda Crime Prevention Officer who should be invited to visit the school and prepare a report. The information in this report...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (16 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that there are 20 schools in County Cork included in my Department's school building programme where the building projects for these schools involves the construction of new school buildings on new sites. Updates on the current status of these projects is available on the Department's website at www.education.ie and this information is updated regularly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (16 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, 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 pressure for school places across the country will arise and where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: Managing classroom ventilation is one of a number of prevention and control measures in place to ensure schools are safe. Practical steps for the deployment of good ventilation practices was provided to the school system in the context of re-opening for September 2020. This guidance was reviewed and updated in November 2020 and in May 2021. This guidance is compatible with that in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (16 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I understand the need for improved capitation funding and I am pleased that budget 2020 has been able to provide for a further 2.5% increase in standard capitation funding for primary schools that applied from the start of the 2020/21 school year. This builds on the 5% increase in capitation announced in budget 2019. The combined increases given in 2019 and 2020 mean that circa 40%...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (16 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 142 and 143 together. At primary level, the annual staffing schedule determines the allocation of teachers to schools. For the current school year, it operates on a general average of 26 pupils to every 1 teacher (26:1). Budget 2021 has implemented a further 1 point reduction for the 2021/22 school year so that primary schools will be allocated teaching...

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

Norma Foley: The project for the school referred to by the Deputy commenced on site in March 2021 and is progressing satisfactorily with a contract duration of approximately 6 months.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 my Department's...