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

Norma Foley: Under the Education (Welfare) Act 2000, education is compulsory for children in Ireland from the ages of six to sixteen or until students have completed three years of post-primary education. Key considerations for my Department in this matter is our policy of inclusion. However, while my Department primarily supports mainstream schools, it does provide funding for a small number of...

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

Norma Foley: Temporary accommodation in schools is comprised of both rented and purchased prefabricated units. While the Department is aware that some schools are operating some classes in purchased prefabs around the country particularly in the context of the Covid19 related measures (funded by my Department and/or by the school authority), accurate information in respect of purchased prefabs is not...

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 wish to advise the Deputy that the criteria for the awarding of incremental credit to registered teachers at second level schools, is set out in my Departments Circulars 0029/2007 and 0029/2010. The Circulars note the particular conditions which apply to the awarding of incremental credit for persons who may have been teaching, for a period, in less than whole time contracts, such as fixed...

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

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that the school in question applied for funding under my Departments Emergency Works Scheme for Category 2 (Life Safety Systems). This application was approved on the 7th of October and as it is a devolved project it is the responsibility of the school authority to progress the works.

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

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application, for additional school accommodation, from the school authority in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s...

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

Norma Foley: The figures that the Deputy requested are set out in tabular form in the following table. The information is based on the annual October Returns which were submitted to the Department by Post Primary schools. 2017 2017 Number of Schools  715 Number of Schools with Students doing Higher Level...

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

Norma Foley: The figures that the Deputy requested are set out in tabular form in the following link. The information is based on the annual October Returns which were submitted to the Department by Post Primary schools.

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

Norma Foley: As part of the COVID-19 supports provided to schools in 2020, additional funding of €41.2 million was allocated to provide primary schools with substitute staff. This funding allowed for the expansion of the Substitute Teacher Supply Panel from a pilot scheme consisting of 6 base schools to 132 Substitute Teacher Supply Panels nationwide, with almost 380 newly appointed Supply Panel...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: Budget 2022 has provided for an allocation of €18million for 2022 and €32million for 2023 to extend the DEIS programme to further schools with the highest levels of disadvantage. This represents an increase of over 20% in funding for the DEIS programme and will enable an expansion in 2022 of the programme to further schools. This package follows an extensive body of work...

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

Norma Foley: The criteria for the award of Incremental Credit, for previous teaching experience, to recognised Primary teachers is outlined in Circular 0010/2001, and was agreed in the first instance, under the auspices of the Teacher Conciliation Council (TCC). This Council is comprised of representatives of the teacher unions, school management bodies, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform,...

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

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that in 1995, a coordinated pension scheme came into effect for public servants, and those who were newly appointed as teachers were automatically included in the Class A Social Welfare Scheme. Prior to this, only part-time teachers and teachers who had opted out of the pension scheme, or were unable to become a member of the scheme, were Class A contributors....

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

Norma Foley: My Department continues to engage with the education stakeholders on the issues raised about the current difficulty in accessing substitutes for teacher absences. As part of the COVID-19 supports provided to schools in 2020, additional funding of €41.2 million was allocated to provide primary schools with substitute staff. This funding allowed for the expansion of the Primary Schools...

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 current school year over 113,100 children, including over 14,500 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: Departmental Correspondence (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that officials from the Pension Unit of my Department have confirmed that a service history statement was issued to this teacher on 26th October last. Any further queries the teacher may have can be sent directly to pensions@education.gov.ie.

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

Norma Foley: 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 across the country. Further work is underway to ascertain if there are ways the operation of the...

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 Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: Public Service Pay is dealt with through centralised engagement and collective bargaining between Government and the public service unions. The recent public service agreements allowed a programme of pay restoration for public servants to commence which has led to many improvements since the measures implemented following the financial crisis. For example, the starting salary for a new...

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

Norma Foley: The Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, section 11, amended the Equal Status Act 2000 to remove, in the case of recognised primary schools, the provision that permitted such schools to use religion as a selection criterion in school admissions. Schools cannot therefore use religion as a selection criterion. However there is a provision to ensure that a child of a minority faith,...