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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department is very aware of the disruption caused to students as a result of school closures arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. From 11 January 2021, all students, including students who were 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. Students in fifth year were prioritised for a return...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The information requested by the Deputy is being collated by officials in my Department. A response will be fowarded  to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (13 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The latest year for which the data is available is 2018 and is presented in the table below. - Primary level Post-primary level Total expenditure € 3,784,796,714 € 3,490,341,316 Annualized full-time equivalent* enrolment 562,331 416,410 Expenditure per student ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Jul 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 my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: In May 2021 the Government announced a package of supports to allow primary and post primary schools to offer a summer programme for students with complex special educational needs and those at greatest risk of educational disadvantage, as a COVID-19 pandemic response measure for summer 2021.  The total funding available to provide summer programmes this year is up to €40 million,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Tríú Leibhéal (13 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: Chinn na hinstitiúidí tríú leibhéal go léir le chéile scéim pointí bónais a oibriú don mhatamaitic ardleibhéil Ardteistiméireachta ar feadh tréimhse thrialach ceithre bliana ó 2012 go 2015. Rinneadh é seo de bhun iarratais ón Aire Oideachais ag an am mar chuid d’athbhreithnithe a rinneadh ar an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA). I can confirm that a Design Team to deliver this project was appointed by the NDFA in April 2021. The Design Team is now preparing the Stage 1 report (preliminary design). While at this early stage it is not possible to provide details or a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Rights of People with Disabilities (13 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: Action 40 of the National Disability and Inclusion Strategy provides that my Department will amend its Technical Guidance Documents for school and educational buildings to ensure universal design principles and guidelines are fully considered in all designs for new building and, where possible, in the retrofit of existing buildings. The Department is committed to developing inclusive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme 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.   All children who are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: Under the Programme for Government there is a commitment to seek to make further progress in reducing the pupil teacher ratios in primary schools. For the 2021/22 school year, an improvement of one point in the appointment threshold in primary schools has been introduced and schools will be provided with class teachers on the basis of of 1 teacher for every 25 pupils which is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (13 Jul 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 Transport (14 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2020/21 school year more than 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, were 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: School Transport (14 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2020/21 school year more than 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, were 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: School Transport (14 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme 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. Bus Éireann have advised that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (14 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: I can inform the Deputy that the average direct pay and non-pay cost per annum of employing an Educational Psychologist in my Department's NEPS service is €75,000 per annum. The estimated annual additional cost, therefore, of employing 25 psychologists would be €1.875m. It should be noted, however, that should an extensive recruitment exercise be envisaged, in the first...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Broadband Plan (14 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department is working closely with the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications on the implementation of the National Broadband Plan Intervention area, which will see some 679 primary schools provided with high speed connectivity by the end of 2022. This includes the School Connection Points under the Broadband Connection Points programme implementation currently underway....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (14 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: I can inform the Deputy that my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary schools. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to support students, access to a NEPS psychologist for responses...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (14 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: I can inform the Deputy that my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary schools. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to support students, access to a NEPS psychologist for responses...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (14 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department aims to provide its customers with a professional, efficient and courteous service and does not distinguish between unsolicited and solicited correspondence. A full statement of commitments contained within my Department’s Customer Charter can be found on gov.ie at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/045e7-customer-charter/ The Customer Charter underpins...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (14 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, 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...