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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (19 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department’s Circular Letter 0032/2007 and Circular Letter 0054/2019, details the agreed terms and conditions for the main leave types currently available to teachers, including the provision for substitute cover. My Department’s Circular Letter 0033/2013 permits a primary school to utilise their Supervision Hours to cover absences including, all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: Most schools hire secretarial and secretarial and caretaking services under grant schemes and responsibility for terms of employment rests with the school. As a result, my Department does not hold data on such staff. On foot of a Chairman’s Note to the Lansdowne Road Agreement, my Department engaged with the Unions representing school secretaries and caretakers,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to all 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 including heating, lighting etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services/ school services support fund (SSSF) grants. These grants may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to all 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 including heating, lighting etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services/ school services support fund (SSSF) grants. These grants may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to all 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 including heating, lighting etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services/ school services support fund (SSSF) grants. These grants may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (20 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: In relation to school admissions, it is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998 and the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018. Under the provisions of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, all schools are required to have admissions policies, which have been approved by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The major building project at the school referred to by the Deputy is at Stage 3 of Architectural Planning – Tender Action, which includes the appointment of a building contractor. DDLETB has completed the final prequalification process, and my Department has authorised DDLETB and its Design Team to proceed to tender.A tender process usually takes between 6 and 8 months to complete.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers has been approved Additional Accommodation under the Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) Scheme 2021. A Stage 1 report was recently submitted to the Department and I am pleased to inform that the project has been cleared to progress to Stage 2a. The school authority was notified of this development on Tuesday, October 18th. The delivery of this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (20 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The information sought by the Deputy is currently being collated by officials within my Department and will be forwarded to the Deputy in due course. 

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (20 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: Please find attached requested information. Please note the information provided is for academic year 2021-2022, the latest year we have data available for. We expect to publish preliminary enrolment and school data for academic year 2022-2023 in December 2022. The information provided was collated from the 2021-2022 post-primary final enrolment data which can be found on the gov.ie website,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state 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 Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to outline to the Deputy the details of the procedures to process applications for all teacher appointments at the start of each new school year and the commitment of staff of my Department to efficiently process these applications.  Early in the New Year, each school is advised by my Department of their teaching allocations for the forthcoming school year. It is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (25 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 360, 361, 363, 420, 421 and 422 together. The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) of my Department provides a school-based psychological service to all recognised primary and post-primary schools through the application of psychological theory and practice to support the wellbeing, and the academic, social and emotional development of all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware Budget 2023 provided for the provision of funding from the Climate Action Fund in relation to the provision of Photovoltaic Panels in schools up to 6KW output. This is really positive news for our schools and will assist with their energy needs and costs along with supporting the decarbonisation of our school buildings. It is intended the provision of the solar panels...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: A project for the school referred to by the deputy received approval under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to construct a one-classroom SEN Base and two mainstream classrooms. I can confirm that the school was issued approval to proceed to the planning stage of the project by my Department in October 2021. A Stage 2b Report was received in my Department for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (25 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 365, 366, 367, 368 and 387 together. The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) of my Department provides a school-based psychological service to all recognised primary and post-primary schools through the application of psychological theory and practice to support the wellbeing, and the academic, social and emotional development of all...