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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Communications (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: The details sought by the Deputy, in regard to dedicated email addresses for both my Department and in regard to the bodies under the aegis of my Department, are contained in the attached document. Contact E-Mail Addresses for the Department of Education and Aegis Bodies under the Remit of the Department Name of Department Dedicated Email address for the Members...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: The Indecon Review of Career Guidance Tools and Information, published in April 2019, examined aspects of career guidance in the Irish education and training system in order to improve the existing career guidance tools and information and to enhance engagement with enterprise. Both my Department and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: As set out in Department Circulars 0052/2019 (primary) and 0053/2019 (post primary), an application for an exemption from the study of Irish must be made to school management. School management are required to consider applications in accordance with the procedures and processes set out in the Circulars. Additional guidance is provided to accompany the circulars together with guidance on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: Detailed information, guidance and Frequently Asked Questions on exemptions from the study of Irish are available on the website gov.ie/en/service/irish-exemption/. The procedures are set out in Section 2.3 of the relevant circular: 0052/2019 primary and 0053/2019 post primary as follows: A parent/guardian must make an application in writing to the principal of the school for a Certificate of...

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

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2020/21 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. Under the terms of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department has not received an application for prefab replacement, from the school in question. It is open to the school authorities to submit an application under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Sep 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Sep 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. All children who are...

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

Norma Foley: My Department has a large-scale and ambitious roll-out of school building projects under the National Development Plan and as part of Project Ireland 2040. The continuation of construction work on school building projects during lockdown period in early 2021 was an important enabler to facilitating the delivery of our school building programme. There are currently over 250 school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Road Network (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 472 and 473 together. As the Deputy is aware, the road to which he refers forms part of a project delivered under the Schools Bundle 5 Public Private Partnership (PPP) programme. The National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) holds the role of agent for my Department on this PPP project, which consists of the construction and operation of six new schools,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (28 Sep 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 Teaching Council registers teachers in line with the requirements set out in the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and the Teaching Council (Registration)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Broadband Plan (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department operates the Schools Broadband Programme at an annual cost of some €13m, providing connectivity to schools through a range of technologies at the best level of connectivity available based on local infrastructure. The school referred to by the Deputy was provided with a DSL connection, which unfortunately is a low speed connection and it is appreciated this is less than...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: It is the responsibility of my Department to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in an area. Parents can choose which school to apply to and where the school has places available the pupil should be admitted. It is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to draft, publish and implement a school admission policy...

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

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2020/21 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 Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: Under the Programme for Government there is a commitment to make further progress in reducing the pupil teacher ratios in primary schools. As part of the Budget 2021 measures, the Government have delivered on this commitment by the announcement of a 1 point change to the primary staffing schedule and the introduction of a three point reduction in the number of pupils needed to retain a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Sep 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. Primary schools are currently provided with class teachers on the basis of one teacher for every 25 pupils which is at its historically lowest level. In addition, there has been a three...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: The site to which the Deputy refers is a zoned site to meet a potential future school requirement in the settlement in order to serve newly establishing neighbourhood(s). At this point, given the early stage of development, there is not yet a requirement to establish an additional school in order to meet a demographic need but this site is positioned to meet to meet a future anticipated...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (28 Sep 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 my 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department is currently in discussions with another public body regarding the acquisition of a permanent site for Killester/Raheny/Clontarf ETNS. This site option for the new school is within the school planning area. The nature of these negotiations is complex but good progress is being made. However due to the confidential nature of these negotiations it is not possible to provide any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: A number of new Irish-medium gaelscoileanna and a gaelcholáiste have been established in the Fingal area in the last decade. 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...