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

Norma Foley: Within the past year, the key objectives and achievements for my department included the safe reopening of schools and the continuity of the Leaving Certificate amid the adversity and disruptions of the pandemic. A key objective of the Government’s plan for living with COVID-19 was that our children and school staff could attend school safely. On 27 July 2020 I published...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equality Issues (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: In recruiting Civil Servants the Human Resources Unit of my Department engage the Public Appointmente Service (PAS) which was established under the tersm of the Public Services management Act to provide recruitment, assessment and selection services for Civil and Public Service bodies. Part 5 of the Disability Act 2005 provides that public bodies promote and support the employment of...

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: 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: State Examinations (22 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: State Examinations (22 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: State Examinations (22 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: School Transport (22 Jun 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 scheme is,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  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 my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department conducted an exercise on the necessity for the establishment of a new post-primary school in the Donaghmede/Howth/Dublin13/Baldoyle/Stapolin school planning area in 2022, taking into account a number of factors, including the pace of delivery of the expected additional residential development in this school planning area, associated enrolments and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools is published annually on the Department's website.  The school to which the Deputy refers is an Education and Training Board (ETB) school. The Department provides a staffing allocation to each ETB and the distribution of this staffing allocation including Small School posts is a matter for the Chief...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I am not in a position to comment on individual cases or schools.  However, I can say that the ex gratia scheme was established on foot of the specific circumstances arising from and in response to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) relating to Louise O'Keeffe.  The Department undertook a review of the scheme in response to a determination by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that a permanent site option for the new Killester/Raheny/Clontarf ETNS has been identified and it is in the school planning area.  Due to the sensitive nature of site acquisitions in general, it is not possible to give further details at this time. It is difficult to indicate a timeframe for any site acquisition as each process is unique and in some instances complex...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing schedule operates in a clear and transparent manner and treats all similar types of schools equally irrespective of location. For the 2021/22 school year, an improvement of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department does not hold details of school building projects by electoral area.  My Department operates on the basis of school planning areas. My Department has a large pipeline of projects for delivery under the school building programme to cater for current and future educational demands, including schools in the geographic school planning area...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (22 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (22 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The criteria, reviewed annually with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Communications (22 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: Due to restrictions on travel arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, it has not been possible for me to travel to meet my EU counterparts since my appointment. The following table sets out the meetings that I have had with my EU Counterparts since my appointment.  Date Formal Meetings Feb 2021 Informal video conference of Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (22 Jun 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, utilising data from a range of sources including information on planned and current residential development, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. ...