Results 11,041-11,060 of 19,632 for speaker:Norma Foley

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

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 808 to 815, inclusive, and 817 to 819, inclusive, together. 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 and to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Information from a range of sources, including Child...

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

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment.  Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools.  The timing and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 820 and 821 together. NEPS provides educational psychological support to all recognised primary and post-primary schools. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to support students, access to a NEPS psychologist for responses to queries arising,...

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

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 824 and 825 together. The school referred to by the Deputy will move to suitable interim accommodation on the permanent site for the 2023/24 school year, pending delivery of the school's permanent accommodation. Several meetings have been held with the Local Authority in this regard and site works are due to commence in the coming weeks.  My...

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

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. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in that area.  Under...

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

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: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (18 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: Mar is eol don Teachta, tá an Curaclam Bunscoile á athbhreithniú agus á athfhorbairt faoi láthair. Le blianta beaga anuas tá taighde fairsing náisiúnta agus idirnáisiúnta, obair le líonra scoileanna agus comhpháirtithe oideachais agus comhairliúchán fairsing le leanaí aois bunscoile mar chuid d’fhorbairt an...

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

Norma Foley: My Department has a large pipeline of projects for delivery under the school building programme. The main elements of this pipeline currently involve in excess of 1,300 school building projects for delivery under the Department’s Large Scale and Additional Accommodation Scheme. These projects are currently in progress across the various stages of planning, design, tender and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: Tuigim féin agus an Roinn Oideachais cé chomh tábhachtach is atá an cheist seo. Tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach. Tá an-chuid oibre déanta go dtí an pointe seo agus táim buíoch den Teachta as an seans é sin a chur os comhair an Teach seo. I thank the Deputy and I want to acknowledge his personal engagement and interest in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I will be absolutely honest and say that I am very aware of Deputy Ó Laoghaire's personal engagement in relation to this matter. I will not lead the Deputy astray regarding the date. I will check it and get back to the Deputy today with the information. I want to reiterate that I am very cognisant of and I fully understand the importance of the view of the survivors being at the heart...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As part of Budget 2023, I announced over €50 million to provide free books to primary school pupils within the free education scheme from September 2023. This measure will eliminate the cost to these families for all school books at primary school, including workbooks. It delivers on the Programme for Government commitment to extend the free school book pilot, currently in 102 DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: Work is progressing to advance a Traveller Education Strategy in line with the Programme for Government commitment. Work currently underway that will inform the development of the Traveller Education Strategy includes: - work underway by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) to support teaching and learning of Traveller history and culture, which follows the 2019 audit of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has recently received an application for capital funding for additional accommodation from the patron of the school in question. The application is being considered and a decision will be conveyed to the patron as soon as the assessment process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 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: School Staff (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The issues that have arisen in this case are related to the assignment of an incorrect PRSI Class. This occurred when the individual concerned who had previously been paid as a Home Tutor (S Class PRSI) took up a role as a Special Needs Assistant (SNA) and should at that time have been assigned to A Class PRSI. Staff working in the Payroll Section of my Department have been in contact...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, a building project is proposed which will facilitate the amalgamation of the schools to which he refers. Additional land is required to facilitate the development and in that context, agreement in principle has been reached with the land owner for my Department to acquire these lands. In tandem with this, my Department will progress the preparation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department progressed 8 Design & Build (D&B) projects (Lots 1 & 2) to construction in 2021, with a further 10 projects (Lots 3, 4 & 5) progressed to construction in Summer 2022. A further 10 projects (Lot 6) are due to proceed to tender shortly. All of these projects are tendered to my Department’s current D&B Contractors Framework. It will be...