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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the last school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 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 €289m in 2021. In July 2022, Government announced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 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, were 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 Accommodation (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers has submitted an application to my Department in respect of temporary accommodation for 4x50 square-metre classrooms. This application is currently with the Department's School Capital Appraisal Section to review. Once this review has being completed, Department officials from my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme will be in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children nationwide. My Department and the NCSE continue to work very closely in planning for the delivery of new places required to meet forecasted demand. I am satisfied that this approach is delivering. We have seen 392 new special classes open, bringing the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the last school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The cost of the scheme in 2021 was €289m. The School Transport...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the last school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The cost of the scheme in 2021 was €289m. The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department received an application for the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme from the school authority in question. Officials from my Department have corresponded directly with the school authorities and approval has been given for the rental of a 1 x 80m² mainstream classroom to urgently provide the accommodation required.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cybersecurity Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: For operational and security reasons, it is not appropriate to disclose details, including any budgetary matters, of my Department’s Cyber Security arrangements, or those of State Agencies under my remit. Any disclosure of information in relation to cyber security matters could assist malicious actors in identifying potential vulnerabilities and potentially compromise my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the last school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 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 €289m in 2021. The purpose of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cybersecurity Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The proportion of my Department’s data held at present on commercial cloud is estimated at approximately 2%. The move to cloud computing has the potential to offer improvements in terms of improved security, reliability, increased access and a reduced carbon footprint amongst others. The amount of my Department’s data stored in the cloud has increased since 2019 and will shortly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The table contains the information requested by the Deputy. The salary scale for Special Adviser to a Minister is the same as the Civil Service Principal Officer pay scale and the pay scale for Special Adviser to a Minister of State is equivalent to the Assistant Principal Officer scale, under the terms of the Guidelines for Ministerial Appointments to the 33rd Dáil.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The joint major building project including the school referred to by the Deputy is assigned to my Department’s ADAPT (Accelerated Delivery of Architectural Planning and Tendering) programme. My Department authorised the Design Team to proceed to retender the project as the first tranche of tenders were deemed unviable. The original planning permission expired in May 2022,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department implemented the outcome of the public service-wide review of allowances and premium payments (September 2012) by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform which means that many allowances, including this one, were no longer payable to “new entrant” Teachers. Circular 0008/2013 outlines the effect of this review on teachers to the effect that, in common...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools - is my Department's main strategy to tackle educational disadvantage at school level. The DEIS programme focuses on targeting additional supports to those schools with the highest concentrations of educational disadvantage. Last March I was glad to announce a major expansion of this programme. This means that, for the first time...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department’s Wellbeing Policy and Framework for practice has given recognition to the importance of promoting wellbeing in education. The approach set out in the Wellbeing Policy is a whole school and preventative approach. The Wellbeing Policy contains a number of high level actions including an action to promote the wellbeing of school staff. The policy recognises the importance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The permanent school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy has been assigned to my Department’s Design & Build delivery programme. This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Manager to progress the project through the relevant stages of architectural planning, tender and construction. The school and its patron body were advised by my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The delivery of high quality internet connectivity for all schools is a key objective of my department. It is accepted that good connectivity is essential to ensure that schools are facilitated to progress the embedding of digital technologies in teaching and learning and for the implementation of new and revised curriculum. My department operates the Schools Broadband Programme at an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. In the last school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 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 €289m in 2021. In July 2022, Government announced funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the last school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The cost of the scheme in 2021 was €289m. The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the last school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The cost of the scheme in 2021 was €289m. The purpose of my...