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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: Caranua is in the process of winding down.  Operational matters including the number of applications on hand and Caranua’s plan to have all outstanding applications completed by the end of 2020 are being dealt with by Caranua. Caranua have written to the Public Accounts Committee regarding their transitional arrangements. This correspondence will be published in the usual manner.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: Applications from survivors are dealt with by a team of application advisors who work closely with survivors to try and deliver on their identified needs. Where a survivor is unhappy with the outcome of an application, he/she has access to an appeals system.As of 31 October 2020, there were 7 appeals outstanding.  Monthly statistics on the number of appeals are published on my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: Section 7 (1) of  Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 provides for the Board to evaluate the effectiveness of approved services in meeting the needs of former residents.  Caranua, with the approval of the former Minister for Education, entered into a contract with Dr John Weafer to undertake an independent evaluation to - Evaluate whether the objectives of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Interdepartmental Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I understand that the interdepartmental committee will be reconvened before the end of the year.  As well as my Department, membership is drawn from Departments where the remit is to provide for services for people, e.g., the Department of Health, the Department of Employment and Social Protection, the Department of Justice, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The Survivor Led Consultation Group is now meeting on a regular basis using virtual technology.  The meetings are facilitated by professionally qualified facilitators.  Matters relating to survivors of institutional abuse identified by survivors and set out in the August 2019 report continue to be discussed.

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

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 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 Protection and the Department's own school enrolment databases, to...

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

Norma Foley: The scheduling of the school holiday periods during the academic years is agreed between the managerial authorities of schools, the teacher unions and my Department for the purposes of standardising breaks at Christmas, Easter and mid-term. This is important to ensure certainty for the school community about the dates of school holidays.  There are no plans to alter the school break at...

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

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department received an application, from the school in question, for consideration under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme. On completion of the assessment process, it was determined that the school had sufficient permanent accommodation on site to cater for their existing staffing co-hort. The school authority recently appealed...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The 2019 financial statements and Caranua's annual report were laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and will be published this week. Given the Covid-19 pandemic, unfortunately, the routine business of Government can be delayed.

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 and Skills. The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including...

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 Staff (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The provision of an occupational injury scheme for teachers is the subject of a claim, being brought to the Teachers' Conciliation Council (TCC).  Discussions are taking place under the auspices of the TCC, to which the Department, management representatives and unions are all party. As the proceedings of the TCC are confidential, it would not be appropriate for me to make any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department ensures that a range of high-quality models of continuing professional development (CPD) is provided to teachers and school leaders through its support services: the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST), the Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT), the National Induction Programme for Teachers (NIPT), through the Centre for School Leadership (CSL), the national network...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The information sought by the Deputy is not readily available in the format requested. A reply will be issued directly to the Deputy as soon as the requested information can be collated.

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

Norma Foley: Budget 2021 continues the programme of major reinvestment in primary and post-primary education system and demonstrates clearly the Government’s commitment to, and support for, schools and students.  Building on the initiatives set out in the Programme for Government, the budget for the Department of Education will be €8.9 billion in 2021, an increase of €410 million...

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

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department received an application, from the school in question, for consideration under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme. On completion of the assessment process, it was determined that the school had sufficient permanent accommodation on site to cater for their existing staffing cohort. The school authority recently appealed...

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

Norma Foley: The criteria required to have incremental credit awarded to post-primary school teachers are set out in the Department of Education Circulars 29/2007 & 29/2010 the contents of which were agreed under the auspices of the Teachers' Conciliation Council (TCC).  This Council is comprised of representatives of the teacher unions, school management bodies, the Department of Public...

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 km 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 km at a cost of over...