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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: Publication of the Roadmap for the Full Return to School by the Government, included details of a significant financial package to support the implementation of the measures in the roadmap. The package of supports is expected to cost in excess of €437 million in the 2020/2021 school year and this includes funding for a range of supports being made available to schools includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the project to which he refers was included in my Department's announcement of 42 new schools in 2018. Officials in my Department are working closely with officials in Fingal County Council under the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the acquisition of a suitable permanent location to meet the needs of the school to which the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the project to which he refers was included in my Department's announcement of 42 new schools in 2018. Officials in my Department are working closely with officials in Fingal County Council under the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the acquisition of a suitable permanent location to meet the needs of the school to which the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The context within which zoning of sites for schools takes place is the  20-year “National Planning Framework 2040”. Within this framework the statutory land planning process operates on a number of levels: national, regional , county/city and local.  There are some 200 statutory plans between regional, county and local area plans.  These plans are produced on an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: Of the 3,963 schools (3,240 primary and 723 post-primary) in the State, 405 schools (280 primary and 125 post-primary) are currently using or partially using rented accommodation.  The date of individual rentals ranges from 2000 to 2020 and a breakdown of the school by County is below. Breakdown of schools by county ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that details of school enrolments for 2019 are available on my Department's website . Enrolment information for the 2020 school year is not yet available. Regarding school enrolment, it is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act 1998.  In schools where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 492 and 493 together.   I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department does not hold information in the format requested.  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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 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: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

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 (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 501 and 535 together. As the Deputy may be aware, my Department has had significant engagement with an Irish-medium school patron in relation to its proposal for a Gaelcholáiste under its patronage to also have a campus in County Louth. The proposal does not involve the establishment of a new school but rather an additional campus of an existing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The building project referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme which tenders to pre-established frameworks of D&B contractors.   My Department is currently in the process of establishing a Framework of Design and Build Contractors to which Design and Build projects can be tendered....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The building project referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme which tenders to pre-established frameworks of D&B contractors. My Department is currently in the process of establishing a Framework of Design and Build Contractors to which Design and Build projects can be tendered. Once this framework...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Educational Training Board (KWETB). I can confirm that a design team to deliver this project has been appointed by the ETB in that respect. KWETB has confirmed that the design team is preparing the Stage 1 report (preliminary design) and this process is nearing completion. While at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that Level 5 restrictions do not apply to the Education sector and on this basis any prior commitment or agreement between a school authority and a third party should remain in place.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2019/2020 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 over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 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...