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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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. The Teaching Council inform me that the application of the person referred to by the Deputy has been successfully concluded, with registration in effect from the...

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

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 436 to 438, inclusive, and 441 together. 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...

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

Norma Foley: The Inspectorate is committed to carrying out its inspections in a fair and objective manner and in accordance with its Code of Practice(2015) and its published inspection guides. The published guides set out how the Inspectorate will conduct its inspections and specifies the inspection activities associated with the various models of inspections that the Inspectorate uses. It also specifies...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: The public service agreements have allowed a programme of pay restoration for public servants to start. The starting salary for a new entrant teacher in 2012 was €30,702. As a result of the programme of pay restoration, the starting salary of a teacher is now €37,692. Section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 provides that “the Minister [for Public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Supervision and Substitution Scheme (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: The reopening of schools has been a very important milestone for Irish children and society. The safety and wellbeing of staff, students and the whole school community has been of paramount importance in the Government’s planning for school reopening. My Department secured very significant funding of over €375 million to ensure schools can implement the Return to Work...

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: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, my Department published the Roadmap for Full Return to Schoolon July 27 2020, enabling schools to safely open, and remain open, from the end of August. The importance and significance of ensuring schools safely opened, and remain safely open, is a national priority for Government. As set out in the Roadmap, the implementation of the COVID-19 Response Plan by a school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, my Department published the Roadmap for Full Return to Schoolon July 27 2020, enabling schools to safely open, and remain open, from the end of August. The importance and significance of ensuring schools safely opened, and remain safely open, is a national priority for Government. As set out in the Roadmap, the implementation of the COVID-19 Response Plan by a school...

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

Norma Foley: The Programme for Government commits to expanding and prioritising the transfer of viable schools to Community National Schools, along with achieving a target of at least 400 multi-denominational schools by 2030 to improve parental choice and to working with communities to ensure the provision of clear, non-partisan information in this regard. The Schools Reconfiguration for Diversity...

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

Norma Foley: The role of the school is to provide an appropriate education for all its pupils. A stable, secure learning environment is an essential requirement to achieve this goal. A core value of the curriculum, across all levels of schooling in Ireland, is inclusivity and diversity. The curriculum at primary and post-primary is for all learners, from all backgrounds – regardless of gender,...

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

Norma Foley: Measures announced by my Department as part of Budgets 2016, 2017 and 2018 mean that 500 of the 600 guidance posts that were withdrawn in Budget 2012 were restored to schools from September 2018. As part of the COVID-19 operational supports to schools for the 2020/21 school year, approximately 120 additional posts were provided for guidance to support student wellbeing. These posts will...

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

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that there are a number of schools of varying ethos in Dublin 15, Dublin 7 and Dublin 11 which are located in relative proximity to Ashtown. A list and map of schools is available on my Department’s website, www.education.ie, under the “Find a School” function and this list is searchable by geographical area and ethos. While new schools...