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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state 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: Public Sector Pay (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: A range of measures introduced over the last year demonstrate my commitment to continued investment in our education system. In addition to numerous actions taken in recent years to address teacher supply, a number of specific, targeted measures were introduced with new funding provided, including funding of €4 million for a PME fee refund scheme, which was launched in September 2024....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: Caretakers and cleaners are valued members of our school communities who carry out work vital to the operations of our schools. Under the February 2022 agreement the implementation of revised salary and annual leave entitlements for school secretaries is now fully operational, and lessons learned from that process are now playing a key role in the drafting and implementation of a similar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to confirm my Department has received no application for Major Capital Works from the school, referred to by the Deputy and there are no current plans for a new school building for the school in question. Since 2020, the department has invested over €5 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 950 school building projects and with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas (SPA) and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, including CSO Census data, 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 Staff (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a payroll service to over 160,000 school staff and pensioners. As part of the payroll service, the Cycle to Work scheme is offered to over 130,000 school staff in primary, secondary, community and comprehensive schools. The terms and conditions of the scheme are outlined in Departmental Circular 56/2020. There are different options for payment which include one...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school referred to have been approved funding under my departments Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for capital funding for 5 mainstream classrooms, 2 special education tuition rooms, 2 special education classrooms, 1 universal access toilet, 1 textiles room and 1 multimedia room. The school also received approval in 2021 for funding for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to was approved to enter my Department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide the following accommodation 1 x Special Education Tuition Room under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The responsibility for this project has been devolved to the school authority. I can confirm the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding for loose furniture and equipment (F&E) for schools in various ways, depending on the appropriate delivery mechanism. The provision of funding for the replacement of lockers and broken or obsolete furniture in schools is covered by this scheme. The school to which the deputy refers submitted an application on September 27th for the replacement of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: In relation to school admissions, it is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an admissions policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998 and the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018. Under the provisions of the Act, school admission policies are approved by the Patron, following consultation with staff and parents of children who are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The new Junior Cycle SPHE curriculum specification was introduced in September 2023 for all first years. It has four strands: Understanding Myself and Others; Making Healthy Choices; Relationship and Sexuality; and Emotional Wellbeing. The aim of the course is to build students’ self-awareness and positive self-worth; to develop the knowledge, understanding, skills, dispositions and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Oct 2024)

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

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: I am delighted to inform the House that I have secured a budget of almost €12 billion, which is a 9% increase on the funding achieved in budget 2024. There is an increase of €712 million in core current funding and an increase of more than €360 million in core capital funding compared with the original national development plan allocation for 2024. These are the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (2 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state 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 (2 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for roof works. The original application was refused as the works did not fit the criteria of the Emergency Works Scheme but was advised better suited to the Summer Work Scheme. The application in question is currently being reviewed by the Department of Education’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (2 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved to enter the department’s pipeline for a project under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project will provide five mainstream classrooms, one SET room and a two classroom Special Education Needs (SEN) base. The project was devolved to the school authority for delivery. My department received a stage 1 report in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (2 Oct 2024)

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