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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department does not currently engage any persons or firms to deal with public relations.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I recently announced that from next September the DEIS programme will be extended to an additional 310 schools. 37 schools will also benefit from additional supports following reclassification. Schools were identified for inclusion in the programme through the refined DEIS identification model which is an objective, statistics based model. Schools were not required to apply for inclusion in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The 18 religious congregations involved in the management of most of the residential institutions in which child abuse took place have made contributions towards the costs incurred by the State in responding to that abuse under two rounds: the legally binding 2002 Indemnity Agreement and the voluntary offers made in 2009 in the aftermath of the publication of the report of the Commission to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 May 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 Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tionscadail Tógála Scoileanna (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: Fuair an scoil a ndéanann an Teachta tagairt di cead le dul le haghaidh pleanála i mí Lúnasa 2020. I mí Aibreáin 2022, chuir an scoil comhfhreagras ar ríomhphost go dtí an Roinn inar luadh go raibh sí ag dul ar aghaidh chun tairiscintí a lorg agus bhí na cáipéisí tairisceana ceangailte leis. Ní raibh cead bronnta ag...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 May 2022)

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 30 September. For the 2022/23 school year, the staffing schedule for primary schools has been improved by one point and schools will be provided with class teachers on the basis of 1 teacher for every...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Patronage (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter, which gives me the opportunity to set out for the House the position of second level schools in Killester, Raheny and Clontarf. To plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, the Department of Education divides the country into 314 school planning areas, as the Deputy knows, and uses a geographical information system, using...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Patronage (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I appreciate we are over time. I thank the Deputy. I would like to clarify that the demographics at post-primary level in the Raheny-Clontarf-Killester school planning area are expected to peak in 2028, with a gradual decline out to 2040. The 2020 enrolment is 3,789 across seven schools, with an expected peak in enrolment at 4,087 in 2028. It is important to note that the patronage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 162 and 163 together. The aims and objectives of the statutory educational welfare service are to ensure that every child either attends school regularly or otherwise receives a minimum education; to ensure and secure every child’s entitlement to education. This service is delivered by Educational Welfare Officers who work with families and children...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy is currently located in interim accommodation in the former Teagasc Building at Malahide Rd, Kinsealy, Dublin 17, which is in my ownership. The local authority identified the site for the new school in Broomfield under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between my Department and the City and County Management Association (CCMA) for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 May 2022)

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 30 September. For the 2022/23 school year, the staffing schedule for primary schools has been improved by one point and schools will be provided with class teachers on the basis of 1 teacher for every 24...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 166 to 169, inclusive, together. The Deputy will be aware that a number of design issues have arisen with this project, as indicated in previous responses, and that approximately €314k has been spent on costs related to the project including design team fees, planning and statutory consent fees, and surveys for the project. This level of cost is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I understand that the Deputy is referring to administrative staff in ETB head office. In that regard, my Department provides each ETB with an overall staffing allocation to support ETB schools, colleges, head office and other centres of education. It is the responsibility of the Chief Executive of each ETB to recruit and manage staffing levels within this allocation, which would include...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a programme of school building projects. This school is part of ‘Project Nore’, and I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the tender process for appointing a contractor for ‘Project Nore’ is currently underway. Following the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I recently announced that from next September the DEIS programme will be extended to an additional 310 schools. 37 schools will also benefit from additional supports following reclassification. Schools were identified for inclusion in the programme through the refined DEIS identification model which is an objective, statistics based model. Schools were not required to apply for inclusion in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I recently announced that from next September the DEIS programme will be extended to an additional 310 schools. 37 schools will also benefit from additional supports following reclassification. Schools were identified for inclusion in the programme through the refined DEIS identification model which is an objective, statistics based model. Schools were not required to apply for inclusion in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was established in September 2021 and followed from a previous amalgamation which took place involving a DEIS school in September 2016. When a DEIS school amalgamated with a school that was not in the DEIS programme, consideration was generally given to the amalgamated school retaining some of the DEIS supports for a finite period of time post...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools is the main policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. In the 2021/22 academic year there are 884 schools in the DEIS Programme - 687 Primary and 197 Post Primary, serving over 180,000 pupils. This represents approximately 20% of the overall school population. The list of schools currently in the DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to recognised Primary and Post-Primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day to day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary/School Services Support Fund (SSSF) to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, Section 18 of the Education Act 1998 requires Boards of Management to keep all proper and usual accounts and records of all monies received by it or expenditure of such monies incurred by it. Boards are also required to make school accounts available for inspection by me and by parents of students in the school. While schools in the Voluntary Secondary Sector...