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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Dec 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Dec 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 Staff (8 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: The Policy for Gaeltacht Education aims to strengthen the provision of education through the medium of Irish in Gaeltacht language planning areas. As part of this Policy, the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme was established to provide additional targeted supports to schools in Gaeltacht language planning areas to fulfil language-based criteria so as to achieve recognition as a Gaeltacht...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: The project for Wexford Educate Together National School is part of a campus project for two schools in Wexford, the other school being Selskar College. The project is devolved for delivery to Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB). The Department received the final Stage 1 Report following a meeting with WWETB and its Design Team and understands that WWETB also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department’s gross voted allocation for 2022 amounts to some €10.2 billion. Eighty percent of the funding is for pay and pensions for the schools sector. It is also expended on the school transport scheme, the School Building Programme and on a range of other programmes. The table below sets out payments that issued from my Department directly to schools in County Limerick,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: Changes to the duration and content of all initial teacher education (ITE) programmes were made in response to recommendations in the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among children and Young People 2011-2020 and were incorporated into the Teaching Council’s Policy Paper on the Continuum of Teacher Education and Criteria and Guidelines for Programme Providers. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department will soon publish a statement of priority actions to be delivered in 2023 which will elaborate on and develop the strategic actions set out in the Statement of Strategy 2021-2023. The Statement of Strategy was published in June 2021. It set out the vision, mission and strategic goals that will guide the Department’s work programme for the 2021-2023 period. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, a major school building project for the school in question has been devolved for delivery to Limerick & Clare Education & Training Board (LCETB). A Traffic Impact Assessment has recently been completed and the findings of same are currently under review by the Design Team. The Design Team is working in consultation with LCETB, the School, the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Flood Risk Management (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: The Minor Works Grant is the funding mechanism for schools for dealing with small scale works. More significant works are dealt with via the multi-annual Summer Works Scheme. The purpose of the Summer Works Scheme is to devolve funding to individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works which, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child and Family Agency (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 343, 344, 345 and 346 together. Tusla Education Support Service (TESS) operates under the Education (Welfare) Act, 2000, a piece of legislation that emphasises the promotion of school attendance, participation and retention. TESS has three strands namely the Statutory Educational Welfare Service and the two school support services HSCL and SCP. The three...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Dec 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 (13 Dec 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: School Staff (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: On 1 January 2021, responsibility for education welfare functions, including the administration of the home school community liaison scheme and the school completion programme (SCP), transferred from the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to my Department. The SCP forms part of the Tusla education support service, TESS. While the arrangements between Tusla and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that I have recently published new circulars on exemptions from the study of Irish for implementation in the current school year (2022/23) following an interim review of the 2019 circulars. Circular 0054/2022 applies to recognised English medium primary schools and Circular 0055/2022 applies to recognised English medium post-primary schools. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Dec 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: School Transport (13 Dec 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: School Transport (13 Dec 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, are 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: Teaching Qualifications (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards of teaching in Ireland. The Council have advised that they have engaged with the Ukrainian Embassy, National Vetting Bureau, Department of Education, and other State bodies in relation to the registration and vetting of qualified Ukrainian teachers who...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the previous 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 Funding (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to all recognised 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 staff. These grants may be regarded as a common grant from which the Board of...