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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...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: A coordinated pension is one where an occupational pension is coordinated with social welfare entitlements. Retired teachers with a coordinated pension are required to apply for their relevant social welfare benefits including illness benefit, jobseeker’s benefit, state pension etc. The rules governing eligibility for supplementary pension require a member to be in receipt of an...

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

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 863 to 866, inclusive, together. 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: Schools Building Projects (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Officials from my Department have attempted to make contact with the Deputy's office to clarify certain details pertaining to this request. This engagement will continue, with a view to answering the query in the most appropriate and expeditious way possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department has a number of long standing arrangements including with the Office of the Attorney General/Chief State Solicitors Office and the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to facilitate the secondment of legal professionals and statisticians to this Department to advise on legal matters and provide robust statistical information, respectively, to help inform policy within the Department....

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

Norma Foley: While funding is not provided directly to schools for wellbeing programmes, the Department commits considerable resources to supporting the wellbeing of all students. My Department is fully committed to ensuring that wellbeing is at the core of the ethos of all schools in Ireland, and that this is done through the implementation of the Wellbeing Policy Statement. The approach proposed in the...

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

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB) were approved funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to carry out some repair works to the prefabs of the school in question. A tender report was submitted and was approved and as this is a devolved project it is the responsibility of the DDLETB to progress the works.

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 the School...

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

Norma Foley: My Department has undertaken a significant level of work in developing projections for teacher demand and supply in our schools. The statistical projections on annual teacher demand and teacher supply at primary and post-primary level are set out in the Developing a Teacher Demand and Supply Model for Ireland 2021-2038 - A Technical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department is responsible for the Shared Education action under the EU funded Peace IV Programme, and has allocated the following grant funding in each of the past three years (2019-2022) to the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).  The funds paid to the SEUPB are used to support the delivery of Shared Education in education settings, including early years settings,...

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: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department is not currently offering internships to students in full or part-time education. However, the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) in my department offers a 120 day placement annually to approximately 24 trainee educational psychologists in their second/third years of their doctoral courses in Educational and Child Psychology at...

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

Norma Foley: As the deputy is aware, on 29 March I announced an ambitious programme of work for a reimagined Senior Cycle of education where the student is at the centre of their Senior Cycle experience. The three tenets of Senior Cycle reform are to: - Empower students to meet the challenges of the 21st century - Enrich the student experience and build on what’s strong in our current system -...

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

Norma Foley: As the deputy is aware, on 29 March I announced an ambitious programme of work for a reimagined Senior Cycle where the student is at the centre of their Senior Cycle experience. The three tenets of Senior Cycle reform are to: - Empower students to meet the challenges of the 21st century - Enrich the student experience and build on what’s strong in our current system - Embed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: There are 19 staff members on secondment to the Department of Education from both the civil and public service.  There are 15 employees seconded out from my department to other organisations. There is one employee of the Department, paid by the Department, who is seconded to Caranua (Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board), an aegis body of the Department of Education....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 888 and 889 together. As part of the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010-2030, my Department has committed to creating opportunities for expanding Irish-medium education outside the Gaeltacht in the context of the announcements since April 2018 on the establishment of 47 new schools from 2019, which affords particular consideration to the...

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 the...

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

Norma Foley: My Department provides a book grant to all recognised primary and post primary schools within the Free Education Scheme in order to provide assistance for books including Book Rental Schemes. Under this scheme, my Department provided funding of €17.2 million in 2021 to all of these schools. Schools participating in my Department’s DEIS Programme receive an enhanced rate of book...

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

Norma Foley: The Department is aware that the school referred to by the Deputy has experienced a number of challenges that have impacted on the smooth operation of the school. In accordance with Section 14 of the Education Act a single manager has recently been appointed to the school.    The Department has engaged with the Patron and Single Manager to work towards making progress in...