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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: A reply issued to Ms. Mary Curtin from the Department of Education on 19/10/2021

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Chief State Solicitor's Office, acting on behalf of my Department, is currently progressing the acquisition of the property in question through the conveyancing stage. My Department understands that the National Council for Special Education is currently supporting the school with a view to expediting their application for the works required to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was granted funding under the Additional Accommodation Scheme to provide two Mainstream classrooms with en-suite toilets. The school authority subsequently sought Department approval to build two further SET rooms with this project, which the school agreed to fund. The Department recently received a request for additional funding to cover project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 492 and 493 together. As the Deputy is aware, I attended the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science recently to provide an update on a number of issues including the measures that are being taken to prevent and tackle bullying in schools. During my appearance at the Joint Committee, I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 495, 496 and 498 together. My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department recently received the survey referred to by the Deputy and is considering its findings. A range of measures have been put in place to provide enhanced substitute cover in the context of Covid-19. These include a major expansion of the Primary Schools Substitute Teacher Supply Panels, which now employ almost 380 teachers and provide substitute cover to over 2,500 primary schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 499 and 500 together. I wish to advise the Deputy, that my Department's website, www.gov.ie./education, contains details of projects being delivered under the school building programme, including those in Wexford. This information is updated regularly. The Additional School Accommodation Scheme (ASA) provides for devolved funding for additional classrooms, if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Nov 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, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €224.7m in 2020. Planning for school transport...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 502 and 506 together. 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 30th September. The staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria to an independent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: Access to sexual and health education is an important right for students. Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) is a mandatory curriculum subject in all primary schools. Relationships and Sexuality Education (or RSE) is required at all levels, from primary through to Senior Cycle. The Department has set out the content for each of these programmes in SPHE syllabuses and guidelines....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The planned establishment of a new primary school in 2021 to serve the Naas School Planning Area was announced in 2018 as a result of a countrywide demographic exercise. Further exercises have since been conducted on the necessity for the establishment of a number of planned new schools, including the school to serve this school planning area, taking into account a number of factors,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Nov 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: School Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 508, 533 and 536 together. 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 30th September. The staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria to an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Nov 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: School Transport (2 Nov 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 the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The Deputy may be aware that between 2016 and 2020, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) undertook an extensive review of senior cycle programmes and vocational pathways, to include Transition Year, the Leaving Certificate Applied, Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme and the Leaving Certificate Established. The review involved a very broad range of research,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 Nov 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 30th September. The staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria to an independent Primary Staffing Appeals Board. The Appeals Board...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department has agreed a Memo of Understanding with the Health and Safety Authority that reflects our shared objective of ensuring that the Return to Work Safety Protocol for addressing COVID-19 in the workplace is being implemented. In relation to school inspections, my Department’s Inspectorate lead on inspection visits to schools for the purposes of working with and advising...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The number of early school leavers is calculated officially in the Department of Education retention report published annually. The next retention report for the 2014 entry cohort (i.e. those pupils who commenced post primary education in 2014) will be published in due course. Where schools have a concern about a child’s attendance they are required to make a referral to TESS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: My aim for Budget 2022 is to continue to deliver on the commitments set out in the Programme for Government, to meet demographic and other pressures in the school sector and to support and sustain our schools, their staff and our students in the face of the ongoing significant challenges posed by COVID-19. Over recent budgets, additional resources have been made available to our...