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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of application for capital funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme from the school authority in question. Officials in my Department has engaged with the school authority and further information was submitted for consideration.  A technical assessment has been carried out on the 1959 building and my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I would like to thank the Deputy for his question regarding research on the provision of homework. While my Department has not commissioned research on this matter, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) funded a report commissioned by the National Parents Council into parental involvement, engagement and partnership in their children’s learning during the primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to confirm to the Deputy that Agreement in Principle has been reached with the landowner of a 2.8 acre site at Janeville, Carrigaline, County Cork for the development of a permanent building for the school to which he refers. This is a designated school site within the local Development Plan and the development of this site for a primary school is supported by the Local Authority.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to has been approved for a project under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project will provide the following accommodation at the school: 1 x Mainstream classroom including en-suite toilet and & 2 x SET rooms. This project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority and an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education.  In the current school year over 147,900 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education.  In the current school year over 147,900 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services are being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: A building project has been approved for the school referred to by the Deputy under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme 2022. The project has been devolved for delivery to Limerick Clare Education & Training Board (LCETB) and an approval letter was issued in this respect on the 29/09/2022 . The next step in the process will be for the ETB to procure a Design Team to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: In Co. Kildare, there are currently 8 Supply Panels, with 33 teaching posts allocated to the scheme, providing substitute cover for 99 schools.  This is an increase on the 2020 allocation, where 16 teaching posts were allocated across 5 Supply Panels, covering 78 schools.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. The Council registers teachers under five routes of registration namely, Route 1 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education.  In the current school year over 147,900 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services are being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. The Council registers teachers under five routes of registration namely, Route 1 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will 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 activity is used for this purpose.  Additionally,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The Government’s objective is to have at least 400 multi-denominational schools in the primary system by 2030 to improve parental choice.  I fully support this commitment and I am working with my Department in this respect.  The Schools Recon?guration for Diversity process, supporting transfers of schools to multi-denominational patrons in response to the wishes of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: Work on the development of a new policy for Irish-medium education outside of the Gaeltacht is under way in my Department. A public consultation process is currently being undertaken to seek the views of interested stakeholders. The information gathered during the public consultation, along with research commissioned by my Department, will inform the development of the new policy. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that requirements for additional school places is kept under on-going review in the context of available information on population, enrolments and residential development activity.  In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The development of a new policy for Irish-medium education outside the Gaeltacht is an important objective for my Department. The formation of this new policy will be part of the overall framework of the 20-year Strategy for the Irish language 2010-2030 and will build on the achievements of the Policy on Gaeltacht Education 2017-2022. The Policy will be an important step towards achieving the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a wide range of supports to all schools, DEIS and non-DEIS, to support the inclusion of all students and address barriers to students achieving their potential. Supplementing these universal supports, the DEIS programme provides a targeted and equitable way to address concentrated educational disadvantage that promotes equity across the primary and post-primary sector....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: In March this year I was glad to be able to announce a major expansion of the DEIS programme. For the first time since 2017, the programme has been significantly expanded to include an additional 322 schools. This means that the DEIS programme now supports over 240,000 students in over 1,200 schools addressing educational disadvantage. Schools were identified for inclusion in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The Government’s objective is to have at least 400 multidenominational schools in the primary system by 2030 to improve parental choice. I fully support this commitment and I am working with my Department in this respect. The Schools Reconfiguration for Diversity process, supporting transfers of schools to multidenominational patrons in response to the wishes of local families, has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 147,900 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services are being...