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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (28 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware for school planning purposes, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System (GIS) to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Apr 2022)

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 121,400 children, including over 15,500 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 €289m in 2021. The purpose of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Apr 2022)

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 121,400 children, including over 15,500 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 €289m in 2021.  The purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The Letter of Intent (LOI) issued on the 15th of February 2022 to the preferred tenderer.  This allows the preferred bidder to put in place the Bond, Insurances and confirmations of all legal arrangements required under the Contract.   Following receipt of all the necessary documentation, the Department will be in a position to issue the Letter of Acceptance (LOA), which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Transport (28 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I have not been allocated a ministerial vehicle.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Road Safety (28 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The appointment of a school traffic warden is a matter for the relevant Local Authority and schools are advised to liaise with the relevant Local Authority in relation to their concerns.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (28 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The Government is committed to the delivery of quality public services, and will continue to approach public service pay in a balanced way that is reasonable and fair to both public servants and the taxpayer. This has been achieved through series of national collective agreements applying across the public sector agreed between trade unions and the Government. The process for these agreements...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Apr 2022)

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 121,400 children, including over 15,500 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 €289m in 2021.   The purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 2022)

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 121,400 children, including over 15,500 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 €289m in 2021. The purpose of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Céim – Standards for Initial Teacher Education (ITE)  was published by the Teaching Council in November 2020.  Céim sets out the requirements that all ITE programmes in Ireland must meet in order to gain accreditation from the Teaching Council.  It is also a benchmark for anybody seeking to register as a teacher in Ireland.  The review by the Teaching...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Apr 2022)

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 question to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you. 

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The provision of modular accommodation is funded through my Departments capital allocation. This Accommodation has the potential to reduce, replace or add to the scope of projects which have been identified as necessary for schools with immediate and future accommodation needs.  Modular Accommodation are for long-term use pending delivery of a permanent accommodation solution...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Apr 2022)

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 question to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you. 

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Mar chuid den Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge, 2010-2030, tá mo Roinn tiomanta do dheiseanna a chur ar fáil chun cur le hoideachas trí mheán na Gaeilge lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht i gcomhthéacs na bhfógraí ó mhí Aibreáin 2018 maidir le 47 scoil nua a bhunú ó 2019, a tharraingíonn aird ar leith ar bhunú Gaelscoileanna,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my officials are examining the long term accommodation needs of Cornamaddy National School. My officials will be in touch with the school authorities directly when a decision has been reached.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 2022)

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 121,400 children, including over 15,500 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 €289m in 2021.  The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the deputy that the decision making authority for a school closure is the Patron of the school, and this is subject to the agreement of the Department.  Any proposal to close a school must involve consultation with all of the relevant stakeholders, parents, teachers, students and local communities and follow decisions taken at local level. Following a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with the statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. It acts in the interests of the public good while upholding and enhancing standards in the teaching profession.  The Teaching Council registers teachers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The schools to which the Deputy refers were granted approval for a joint project to construct a 4 Classroom SEN Base under the Additional Accommodation Scheme 2021 and notification of this approval was issued to the school authorities in June 2021. Confirmation of the appointment of the project's Design Team was returned to the Department in October 2021. Currently the project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department received this application for Additional School Accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy on 20 April 2022.  My Department is are aware that in particular this area is accommodating a significant number of Ukrainians which has put pressure on surrounding schools to accommodate pupils. Utilisation of each school’s existing capacity in the most...