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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that this school was granted approval and funding to build two mainstream classrooms and an Assisted-User WC under the Additional Accommodation Scheme for 2020. The delivery of this project is devolved to the school authority. My Department's officials recently reviewed the school's Stage 2B submission and I am pleased to confirm that this project has now been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: The Deputy will be aware that a building project for the school in question is included in my Department's school building programme. The next step includes completing the accommodation brief for the project, which will be part of a campus development, with a view to progressing the project to the next stage of the planning process as quickly as possible.   My...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Completion Programme (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: The School Completion Programme (SCP) is a key support under Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS). In 2010, €31m was allocated to the School Completion Programme. Subsequently the programme transferred from the Department of Education. The SCP is one of three strands of Tusla Education Support Service (TESS), which previously came under the remit of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 611 and 616 to 618, inclusive, together. My Department has provided funding for several years, to a number of DEIS Band 1 primary schools to organise a week long Literacy and Numeracy Summer Camp Programme/Campaí Samhraidh. In 2020 in response to the challenges faced by schools due to Covid 19 school closures, my Department extended the summer...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home School Community Liaison Scheme (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: The average salary cost for one Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) Coordinator position based on mid point of the salary scale is circa €55,500.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: The information requested by the Deputy is not all readily available and is being collated by my officials.  It will be fowarded directly to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2021)

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, using data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise and where additional school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, my Department provided a total of €160m Minor Works Grant funding to Primary and Post-Primary Schools during 2020. (€90m at Primary level and €70m at Post Primary level) School management authorities have flexibility in terms of how this Minor Works Grant funding is best utilised in meeting the needs of their school operating in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department has committed considerable resources towards the restoration of guidance counselling hours to post-primary schools, to the provision of CPD for guidance counsellors and to the provision of a national guidance counselling supervision service for post-primary guidance counsellors in recent times. The guidance allocation is provided separately and transparently on each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: Please find the requested figures for 2020-21 6th Class and 6th Year enrolments below.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (28 Apr 2021)

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 figures provided by the Council in the table detail the number of newly qualified primary teachers from the institution referring to by the Deputy from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (28 Apr 2021)

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 Council has provided the information requested in the table below, the number of newly qualified primary teachers primary across all providers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €224.7m in 2020. The purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: The Department entered two contracts during the period in question to provide enhanced capacity, supporting necessary communications with a wide range of stakeholders on matters relating to school reopening and the Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades projects. It is common practice for Government Departments to engage external companies to support specific projects when required. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: The Department has engaged in a number of advertising and public messaging campaigns for the period in question. The details of these are being aggregated and a response will issue directly to the Deputy once all the information is collated.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: Voluntary contributions by parents of pupils enrolled in recognised schools are permissible provided it is made absolutely clear to parents that there is no question of compulsion to pay and that, in making a contribution, they are doing so of their own volition. The manner in which such voluntary contributions are sought and collected is a matter for school management, however their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department is acutely aware of the disruption caused to students as a result of school closures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. From Monday 11 January 2021, all students, including students currently in fifth year and who are due to sit the Leaving Certificate examinations in 2022, engaged in a programme of remote learning with their schools. All students have now returned to school....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Transport (28 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department does not lease or own any vehicles. The information in respect of state bodies within the scope of the Deputy’s question is not held by my Department. Contact details for these bodies are set out in the attached document should the Deputy wish to contact them directly with his query.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (29 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: The Schools Recon?guration for Diversity process is aimed at supporting transfers of schools to multi-denominational patrons in response to the wishes of local families. This process involves the transfer of existing live schools as opposed to the amalgamation and/or closure model of the patronage divesting process.  The “Early Movers” provision of the Schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (29 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: In January my Department gave grant approval to the school in question for an 80m² Mainstream Classroom under the additional schools' accommodation scheme. The purpose of this scheme is to ensure that essential classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation. A condition...