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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) programme is my Department's main strategy to tackle educational disadvantage at school level. this year my Department will spend almost €170million, rising to over €180million in 2023, supporting schools in the DEIS programme. These supports include the allocation of DEIS Grants, enhanced school book grants, allocation of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jun 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1064 and 1065 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education does not have have responsibility for the licensing or sale of alcohol. Schools have a role to play in supporting their students to develop the key skills and knowledge to enable them to make informed choices when faced with a range of difficult issues, including drugs, alcohol and gambling. This is mainly done through the Social Personal and Health Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I announced on the 9th March 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy, that the decision making authority for a school closure belongs to the Patron of a school. 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.  In the case referred to by the Deputy, I can confirm that the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department’s Information Note TC 0006/2022 titled ‘COVID-19: Working Arrangements for Higher Risk Teachers and Special Needs Assistants (employees) for the 2022/23 school year’ published on 26thMay 2022 provided the policy on updated working arrangements from 1stJuly 2022 for the ‘Very High Risk’ group, in line with the Department of Public Expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The criteria, reviewed annually with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Each primary school receives a Special Education Teaching allocation.  The Special Education Teaching allocation provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile and also encompasses the Language Support (EAL) allocation that schools were allocated in previous...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The criteria, reviewed annually with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission and my Department are acutely aware of the needs of candidates and end users in regard to the provision of Leaving Certificate results and are doing everything they can to ensure results are delivered as soon as possible. In identifying the 2022 results date, there are a number of significant factors which when taken together together mean it is not possible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the extension to the school to which he refers has been devolved to the school authority for delivery. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the project was recently approved to proceed to the Planning Stage. 

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The criteria, reviewed annually with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Transport (16 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: In accordance with the terms of the Guidelines for Ministerial Appointments for the 33rd Dáil, as published by the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform, I have two civilian drivers to assist me in carrying out my ministerial duties. The Minister of State in my Department also has two civilian drivers. These drivers are paid in line with the relevant salary scale for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Jun 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (16 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. It acts in the interests of the public good while upholding and enhancing standards in the teaching profession. Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015, the Teaching Council is the body with the statutory authority and responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Jun 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 National Council for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (16 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 382 and 383 together. 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 to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Jun 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 query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (16 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The specific information requested by the deputy is not readily available; however, in this sphere my Department is at the forefront of design with respect to sustainable energy in school buildings and this performance has been recognised at both National and International level with sustainable energy awards for excellence in Design and Specification. Schools that are designed and built...