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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1077 and 1078 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1079 and 1080 together. My Department is fully aware of the additional accommodation needs of the school to which the Deputy refers and work is currently ongoing to ensure delivery of same for the 2021 academic year. As the Deputy may be aware, agreement in principle has been reached to acquire a site for the permanent location of the school referred to. This...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools is the main policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. The renewed DEIS Plan published in 2017 sets out the vision for future interventions in the critical area of educational disadvantage policy and builds on what has already been achieved by schools who have benefitted from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: Currently, all DEIS Urban Primary and DEIS Post Primary schools are included in the Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) Scheme. The scheme is delivered by 415 full-time HSCL Coordinators who are teachers assigned to HSCL duties across DEIS Urban Primary and DEIS Post Primary schools either in individual schools or clusters of schools. The table below shows the number of schools by county...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, my Department issues the DEIS Grant to Primary and Post-Primary schools on an annual basis. This is an annual grant to support learning in the context of DEIS for the academic year. Guidelines are issued by my Department to schools in relation to how the DEIS grant can be spent. It is a matter for each individual school to determine how best to use this funding, but...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that the school authority were asked to supply information in regards to their enhanced minor works grant, this information has not been received and a decision will be made on their appeal when it has been received.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoil Issues (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: Four new post-primary school are due to be established in September 2021. As the Deputy may be aware a patronage process is run after it has been decided, based on demographic analysis, that a new school is required. The patronage process is open to all patron bodies and prospective patrons. It is open to all applicant patrons, where applicable, to propose provision of English or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for change of status from the school in question. It is open to the school to apply for a change of status once approval from the Patron has been received.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the deputy has been devolved for delivery to Louth County Council. The process of preparation of tender documentation for the project is effectively completed. However, there are some issues, including a design issue, that have recently arisen in respect of this project and which need to be considered before the tendering process itself can begin. At this stage of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application for change of statusfrom the school in question which is under assessment. This assessment includes information provided by the Bishop. The Department in considering such applications must assess the implications, if any, of changing the status of a school(s) in the context of how this change may impact the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: In consideration of approaches to the filling of board posts for bodies under the aegis of my Department, my obligations are informed by guidance notes issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, guidance which includes the 2014 Guidelines on Appointments to State boards, the 2016 Code of Practice for the Governance of State bodies, and also the 2020 publication by D/PER of an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Teaching Council initiated a review of its post-primary curricular subject requirements in 2018 in the context of a range of factors including ongoing developments in the continuum of teacher education, teacher supply issues and Junior Cycle reform. Following a wide-ranging and comprehensive consultation process conducted with stakeholders between...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Apr 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. Bus Éireann plans and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Apr 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 Department has and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Apr 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 (21 Apr 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 Accommodation (1 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I am please to inform the Deputy that my Department has approved in principle interim accommodation for the school in question. My Department is currently liasing with the patron of the school in relation to the delivery of the interim accommodation and is awaiting further contact from the patron in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: The project to which you refer has been devolved for delivery to Cavan & Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB). The ETB is currently in the process of procuring a design team for the project, to design the buildings, obtain the necessary statutory planning permissions, and move the project onward to tender and construction in due course. While at this early stage it is not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health Promotion (1 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department supports Agri Aware’s Incredible Edibles programme, a healthy eating initiative for Primary School pupils. The programme is also supported by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Health. It encourages schools across the country to grow carrots, lettuce, potatoes, strawberries, turnips and herbs. Schools are supplied with grow packs,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (1 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: While the provision of child and adolescent mental health services lies within the remit of the Department of Health, and the HSE specifically, the Department of Education has an important role to play in supporting the wellbeing and mental health of our young people. The Department’s Wellbeing Policy and Framework for practice has given recognition to the importance of promoting...