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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission (SEC) 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 (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware a building project for the school in question is not included on my Department's capital programme. However, my Department has been in communication with the school in question and the school authority have been advised that it is open to them to apply under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, should they require essential classroom...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that the school in question was approved capital funding in 2020, for additional accommodation under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation scheme (ASA). This approval is to provide 2 mainstream classrooms, 3 Special Education Teaching rooms and the reconfiguration of existing classrooms to accommodate an Early Intervention class. Funding was also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to has been approved for a project under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme 2019. This project will provide for three mainstream classrooms with en-suite WCs. I can advise the Deputy that this project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority and is currently at pre-tender stage.A pre-tender report has been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to has been approved for a project under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme 2018. This project will provide for four mainstream classrooms, two SET rooms and an Assisted User WC. I can advise the Deputy that this project was approved to go to Construction in June 2020 and is currently onsite. My Department has not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. My Department's capital investment programme provides for devolved funding for additional classrooms for existing schools where an immediate enrolment need has been identified. All school capital projects that have been approved, by my Department,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that the school in question has been approved capital funding in 2020, for additional accommodation under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation Scheme (ASA). This approval will provide for 1 additional mainstream classroom and 1 Special Education Teaching room. The current project brief was agreed with the school authority prior to initiation.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: A grant for the school to which the Deputy refers was approved in 2015 under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme. This grant was provided to enable the Board of Management to provide a mainstream classroom, three resource rooms and a WC for assisted users. The project went to construction in 2017 and was completed in 2018. The full grant has been paid to the school. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to has been approved for a project under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme 2015. This project will provide for two mainstream classrooms with en-suite WC and a General Purpose room. This project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority and is currently onsite. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 419, 420, 444 and 445 together. 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 (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is aware of increasing pressures and demand for additional post-primary school places in a number of school planning areas including Monasterevin and Kildare town. Where capacity issues arise it may not be as a result of lack of accommodation but may be driven by the following factors: - Duplication of applications – pupils have applied...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: The 2020 Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades appeals process has concluded and the appeal outcomes were made available to students on 16 October through the Calculated Grades Student Portal. In the processing of the appeals, a total of 33,301 individual subject records belonging to 12,216 students were reviewed. This number excludes students who initially entered for an appeal but...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that my Department is in receipt of applications for capital funding from the school referred to by the Deputy. Officials have been in contact with the school authority in order to progress the application. On completion of the assessment process the school authority will be contacted directly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department publishes reports on consultancy costs after each calendar year on www.education.ie. Tables showing the returns for consultancy costs for 2018 and 2019 are attached. A return for 2020 will be compiled after the end of the accounting period. Details in respect of accountancy, legal, project management and IT companies, are not immediately available but are being compiled and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that the school in question have recently submitted an appeal as advised in my previous answer of the 3rd of November and this is currently being dealt with by the Emergency Works Team.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: The building projects referred to by the Deputy are at an advanced stage of the tender process to appoint a building Contractor. Both projects are being delivered under my Department's Design & Build programme. This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Management team to progress the project through the stages of architectural planning, tendering and construction....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: As part of the implementation of the Digital Strategy for Schools 2015-2020 -Enhancing Teaching, Learning and Assessment,the Department of Education has to date provided €160m of grant aid to schools for ICT Infrastructure. A further €50m will issue over the next week to schools, representing the full commitment of €210m over the period of the Strategy. This ICT grant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: In relation to school admissions, it is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Acts, 1998-2018. On 14th January 2020 a number of sections of the Admission to Schools act were commenced introducing new laws around admission to schools which became operational on 1 February 2020. These provisions...