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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education appropriate to their needs is a priority for this Government. This year, just under 25% of the total Education budget or €2bn will be invested in supporting children with special educational needs (SEN).As a result, the numbers of special education teachers, SNAs and special class and school places are at...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 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. Dublin 12 is...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: The Early Start programme was established in 1994, and is a one-year intervention to meet the needs of children aged between 3 years and 5 years who are at risk of not reaching their potential within the school system. It involves an educational programme to enhance overall development, help prevent school failure and offset the effects of social disadvantage. Since the inception of Early...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: The purpose of the Home Tuition Grant Scheme is to provide funding towards the provision of a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of specific reasons, are unable to attend school. Home tuition is not an alternative to a school placement and is provided in very limited and specific circumstances. By its nature, it is intended to be a short term intervention. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Process (27 Jul 2021)
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 Act, 1998 and the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in that area. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: My Department provides capitation funding to all recognised primary schools and post primary schools within the free education scheme. My Department provide funding to primary schools by way of per capita grants, subject to a minimum grant equivalent to 60 pupils. The funding arrangements for post primary schools reflect the sectoral division of the second-level system. At the core of these...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to Primary and Post-Primary schools by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day to day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary/School Services Support Fund (SSSF) to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff. Schools also receive a range of...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Jul 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. Dublin 12 is...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: The Early Start programme was established in 1994, and is a one-year intervention to meet the needs of children aged between 3 years and 5 years who are at risk of not reaching their potential within the school system. It involves an educational programme to enhance overall development, help prevent school failure and offset the effects of social disadvantage. Since the inception of Early...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 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. Dublin 12 is...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: The Early Start programme was established in 1994, and is a one-year intervention to meet the needs of children aged between 3 years and 5 years who are at risk of not reaching their potential within the school system. It involves an educational programme to enhance overall development, help prevent school failure and offset the effects of social disadvantage. Since the inception of Early...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: This proposal would need to be examined by my Department in the context of current and future requirements for education provision for the school and the area. Any proposal submited through the school should clearly demonstrate how the future expansion of the school could be provided for if the proposed arrangement went ahead.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: Managing classroom ventilation is one of a number of prevention and control measures in place to ensure schools are safe. Practical steps for the deployment of good ventilation practices was provided to the school system in the context of re-opening for September 2020. This guidance recognises that there is no “one size that fits all” and that ventilation is best managed at...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 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 there were over 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 Curriculum (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: A new specification for Leaving Certificate Agricultural Science was introduced in September 2019. There has been an increase in numbers of students opting to take the Agricultural Science in recent years, with a greater proportion of students taking higher level and there is strong support for the subject. Agricultural Science is a crucial element of the science curriculum at Leaving...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: Managing ventilation is just one of a suite of public health measures in place to keep our schools safe. The Department has updated its guidance for schools on Practical Steps for the Deployment of Good Ventilation Practices in Schools. This was done at the end of May and followed on from work done centrally by an expert group that was looking at the role of ventilation in managing Covid-19....
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: Early Start Units are in operation in Cork, Limerick, Dublin, Galway, Louth, Waterford and Wicklow. The full list of schools that have an Early Start Unit are listed in the table below which includes location, county and the school’s roll number. Roll No Name of School Location County 17024I Scoil Chroise Naofa Mahon...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: The Early Start programme was established in 1994, and is a one-year intervention to meet the needs of children aged between 3 years and 5 years who are at risk of not reaching their potential within the school system. It involves an educational programme to enhance overall development, help prevent school failure and offset the effects of social disadvantage. Since the inception of Early...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2020/2021 school year over 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 Department's...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (27 Jul 2021)
Norma Foley: The matter to which the Deputy refers was initially raised by the pension scheme member directly with the Pension Unit of my Department on 30th June 2021. I am pleased to advise that since that date of contact, the relevant officers in the Pension Unit are actively engaging with the pension scheme member to address the issue and will continue to do so with an expectation that the case will be...