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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department and the Department of Education in Northern Ireland are working collaboratively to develop and introduce a pilot cooperation programme to address educational disadvantage. This pilot cooperation programme will run from 2024 until 2026 and will comprise elements on teachers’ research exchange, creativity in schools, and supports to address...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department is providing a payroll service for school secretaries with effect from 1stSeptember 2023. The provision of a payroll service is part of a package agreed with Fórsa, the trade union representing school secretaries, following a series of engagements at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and also includes revised terms and conditions for secretaries. The Agreement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Sep 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 (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: The School to which the Deputy refers was approved to enter the department’s pipeline for a project under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project will provide one mainstream classroom and a two classroom special education needs (SEN). The project was devolved for delivery to the school authority. Officials in my Department frequently engage with Cavan...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Sep 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 (9 Sep 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 Funding (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: The first phase of the Schools Photovoltaic (PV) Programme launched in November 2023 to over 1600 schools. It will provide eligible schools with 6 kWpof roof-mounted solar PV, which equates to approximately 16 solar panels. The scheme will be funded from the Government’s Climate Action Fund, in line with the Government’s recognition that taking action on climate change is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: The large scale capital project at the school is for the provision of a new 600 pupil school and ancillary accommodation. The project is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. The original grant of planning expired in December 2022, but due to changes to the Planning Acts in September 2021, it was no longer possible to apply for an extension to the planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Sep 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 (9 Sep 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: Departmental Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: On the commencement of every Dáil, the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP, Delivery and Reform issues guidelines setting out the arrangements for the staffing of Ministerial Offices. The appointment of Special Advisers is subject to section 11 of the Public Service Management Act 1997. Parliamentary Assistants and Secretarial Assistants appointed by Ministers and Ministers of State...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: The following link contains the information requested by the Deputy for the years 2020 to 2024. The salary scale for Special Advisers to a Minister is the same as the Civil Service Principal Officer pay scale and the pay scale for a Special Adviser to a Minister of State is equivalent to the Assistant Principal Officer pay scale, as advised under the terms of the relevant pay circulars and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following link for special advisers employed by my Department during the years 2020 to 2024. There are also two Ministers of State appointed to my Department. Hildegarde Naughton T.D., Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion in my Department and of the Department of An Taoiseach, has two special advisers who are employed by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that under the second National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development to 2030, my Department is inviting applications for funding from recognised schools for projects that support the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development in primary or post primary schools. The National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development provides a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides psychological support to all primary, post-primary, and special schools. NEPS provides access for all schools to:Psychological support in the event of a Critical IncidentA casework service for individual students where there is a need for intensive consultation and assessment via a NEPS psychologist or through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Sep 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 Enrolments (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: Planning for school provision takes full account of local dynamics, including faster growth in urban areas linked to residential development. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, the Department of Education divides the country into 314 school planning areas. The Department uses a Geographic Information System, which facilitates the analysis of data...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: The requested information is not held by my Department. The sporting organisation in question appears to run a number of competitions for post primary teams and may be best placed to provide the list of partaking schools. A list of all recognised post primary schools in the country is available on my department's website on www.gov.ie.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department does not have the information requested by the deputy available in relation to total land area for grass pitches for each secondary school aided by the Department. The majority of school properties are not in Minister-ownership. My Department can confirm that the Programme for Government commits to high quality Physical Education (PE) in primary and secondary schools. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (9 Sep 2024)

Norma Foley: The first phase of the Schools Photovoltaic (PV) Programme launched in November 2023 to over 1600 schools. It will provide eligible schools with 6 kWp of roof-mounted solar PV, which equates to approximately 16 solar panels. Since the launch of the first phase of the Schools PV Programme late last year, my Department has had a very positive response to the scheme, with over 1500 schools...