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

Norma Foley: The Primary Staffing Appeals Board was set up in 2002 as an independent mechanism to consider staffing appeals made by school authorities in regard to teaching staff allocations. The Appeals Board is a technical committee that adjudicates on appeals using criteria published in the annual Staffing Arrangements for Primary Schools (Section 4 of Circular 19/2021). The Board operates...

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...

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

Norma Foley: Good ventilation was identified as an important aspect of public health advice on managing Covid-19 risks and this led to the establishment of an Expert Group by the Department of Health. A sub-group of the main Expert Group focussed exclusively on the issue of improving and monitoring ventilation in schools. A copy of the guidance is published on the Gov.ie website. This report formed the...

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

Norma Foley: In line with the Government’s plan COVID-19: Reframing the Challenge, Continuing Our Recovery and Reconnecting the rest of our society and economy is now fully reopened as we learn to live with Covid-19. It remains a key objective of the plan for living with COVID-19 that our children and school staff can attend school safely. Further school closures are not envisaged during this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (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 the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Tógála Scoileanna (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: Tá an láithreán criosaithe scoile ag An Corrbhaile, Domhnach Bat, atá á fháil ag mo Roinn chun slí a dhéanamh d’fhoirgneamh buan don scoil dá dtagraíonn an Teachta, beagnach i gcrích ó thaobh an tíolactha dhlíthiúil. Tá an tionscadal nasctha le hiarratas ó úinéir na talún faoin...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (3 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: A revised ex gratia scheme to implement the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgement relating to childhood sexual abuse in day schools is now open for applications. The Scheme, which was developed in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, provides for ex gratia payments to be made to those who qualify to apply for the Scheme and who satisfy the criteria as set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Reopening (3 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The former school referred to by the Deputy is not in my ownership and ultimately it is a matter for the owner of the property to decide how it will be used. My Department has a Charging Lease in place in respect of this property as a means of securing the public funds that were invested by my Department in this school building over the years. My Department have received an application from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (3 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: A revised ex gratia scheme to implement the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgement relating to childhood sexual abuse in day schools is now open for applications. The Scheme provides for the payment of €84,000 to applicants and up to €4,000 in legal costs in respect of the application. The amount of legal costs to be paid is agreed between the solicitor and the Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (3 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: There are two routes recognised by the Teaching Council to become a primary teacher: - A four-year undergraduate Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.) programme. - A two-year post-graduate Professional Master of Education (PME) programme. The undergraduate/B. Ed. model offers students who are beginning their tertiary education, and wish to pursue a career in teaching, an opportunity to acquire a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (3 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: There are 5 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) providing primary Initial Teacher Education in Ireland, four State-funded and one private provider. Each of the State-funded providers has both concurrent (undergraduate) and consecutive (postgraduate) programmes: - DCU Institute of Education. - Marino Institute of Education. - Maynooth University (Froebel Department of Primary and Early...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (3 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The WRC’s Code of Practice provides guidance on best practice to organisations and their employees on the Right to Disconnect. It is not a question of organisations adopting the WRC Code of Practice but a question of working up their own tailored policy. As stated in the Code of Practice, employers should engage proactively with employees and/or their trade union or other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (4 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to confirm to the Deputy that there are 9 post primary schools in the Drumcondra/Marino school catchment area. The Department records data as reported by schools on an annual basis in respect of their available accommodation and enrolment. The Department also holds records in respect of completed or planned Department-funded school building projects and historic enrolment data....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (4 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The planned establishment of a new post-primary school in 2022 to serve the Drumcondra_Marino_Dublin 1 school planning area was announced in 2018 as a result of a countrywide demographic exercise. A further exercise has 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (4 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to confirm to the Deputy that there are 9 post primary schools in the Drumcondra/Marino school catchment area. 4 of these are mixed schools, 3 whose ethos is Inter Denominational and 1 whose ethos is Catholic 3 are boys schools whose ethos is Catholic 2 are girls schools whose ethos is Catholic The Department records data as reported by schools on an annual basis in respect of their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (4 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: For the academic year 2019-20, there were 559 sixth class primary pupils in the school planning area of Drumcondra_Marino_Dublin 1. Of these, 262 left the school planning area to attend post-primary in neighbouring school planning areas for the 2020-21 academic year. The remaining 297 pupils stayed in the school planning area to attend first year of post-primary. An additional 350 pupils...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (4 Nov 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. My Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including the Central Statistics Office and also, Ordnance Survey...