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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Overseas Study Placements (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: On 17 February, I confirmed that Leaving Certificate 2021 examinations would proceed, guided by public health advice, and that students will also have the alternative option of applying for grades accredited by the State Examinations Commission (SEC), to be known as SEC-Accredited Grades. This decision was taken by government to ensure for every candidate in 2021, a method to assess their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The site referred to by the Deputy is not currently for sale and owner is seeking planning permission to develop the site for residential development. My Department did previously make contact with the owner expressing an interest in acquiring the property. However, it did not prove possible to acquire the property.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defibrillators Provision (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 317, 318 and 319 together. Under the provisions of the Education Act 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school. The decision to install a defibrillator is made at local school level and is a matter for the board of management of each individual school. The wider question of the need for defibrillators to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Jun 2021)

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: Schools Building Projects (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The instillation of interim accommodation on the school site to which the Deputy refers is considered exempt under Planning Exemption Class 20D (S.I. No. 114/2021 - Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) Regulations 2021). A Section 5 Declaration is not a requirement of utilising the above exemption.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Government published the Roadmap for the Full Return to School, along with details of a financial package of over €375 million to support the implementation of the measures in the roadmap, following approval by Government. The range of supports being made available to all schools in the free education scheme include additional financial supports to provide for Cleaning, PPE and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: In accordance with Department Circular 0031/2011 teachers must be qualified and registered to teach in the sector to be eligible for the qualified rate of pay. The teacher referred to is registered under Route 3 with the Teaching Council which allows her to work in a further education setting. If she was teaching in a mainstream post primary school she would receive the unqualified rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Department engaged in social media advertising in respect of the 2021 Leaving Certificate Accredited Grades and Examinations process and also to highlight the public health advice for all students in schools to students and their parents for the period outlined. The total cost of this was €24,367.93. The information in respect of state bodies, within the scope of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Department regularly produces information videos. These videos contain public health advice for the school community, addresses by the Minister on Department initiatives and information and guidance on Department initiatives. These may be published on its social media channels, provided directly to schools for their use, or both. The Department engages the services of an external...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Department has not incurred any costs in relation to public relations consultancy for the period outlined. 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 document below should the Deputy wish to contact them directly with this query.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools 2015–2020 Enhancing Teaching Learning and Assessmentarticulates the Department’s current policy on the embedding of digital technologies in teaching, learning and assessment in schools. Its clear vision is focussed on realising the potential of digital technologies to enable our young people to become engaged thinkers, active learners, knowledge...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: As part of the €210m investment programme underpinning the implementation of the Digital Strategy for Schools, my Department provided €100m in grant funding to recognised primary, special and post-primary schools to address their ICT needs during 2020. This included €50m in respect of the 2020-2021 school year brought forward and issued in December 2020. Schools were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools 2015–2020 Enhancing Teaching Learning and Assessmentarticulates the Department’s current policy on the embedding of digital technologies in teaching, learning and assessment in schools. Its clear vision is focussed on realising the potential of digital technologies to enable our young people to become engaged thinkers, active learners, knowledge...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department provided €100m in grant funding to recognised primary, special and post-primary schools to address their ICT needs during 2020, the final issue of funding under the €210m investment programme underpinning the implementation of the Digital Strategy for Schools. This included €50m in respect of the 2020-2021 school year brought forward and issued in December...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools 2015–2020 Enhancing Teaching Learning and Assessmentarticulates the Department’s current policy on the embedding of digital technologies in teaching, learning and assessment in schools. Its clear vision is focussed on realising the potential of digital technologies to enable our young people to become engaged thinkers, active learners, knowledge...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: First Aid Training (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: There are no plans at present to introduce First Aid into the curriculum. The curriculum in second level schools must meet an extensive range of needs in catering for the cognitive, emotional, imaginative, aesthetic, social, physical and moral development of students, and in preparing them for the demands of citizenship, lifelong learning and social and economic participation. Key messages...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: First Aid Training (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: There are no plans at present to introduce First Aid into the curriculum. The curriculum in second level schools must meet an extensive range of needs in catering for the cognitive, emotional, imaginative, aesthetic, social, physical and moral development of students, and in preparing them for the demands of citizenship, lifelong learning and social and economic participation. Key messages...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Climate Action Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The following actions are assigned to the Department of Education under the Interim Climate Action Plan. Action No. Sub Action Action 22 22a Establish an appropriately resourced Climate Action Unit in every Government Department to ensure Climate considerations are at the core of policy development 89 89a ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The School energy retrofit pathfinder programme is jointly funded from the Department of Education and Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. This Pathfinder is paving the way for, and informing, a much larger national schools programme for the energy retrofit of schools built prior to 2008 from 2023 onwards as included in the NDP. It is facilitating research on a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The patronage divesting process arises from the recommendations of the 2012 report of the Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector, following which the Department undertook surveys of parental preferences in 43 areas of stable population in 2012 and 2013 to establish the level of parental demand for a wider choice in the patronage of primary schools within...