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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, a suitable site has been identified and the Department has reached an agreement in principle, subject to contract, for the acquisition of a site at Fassaroe, Bray, Co. Wicklow as a permanent location for the school referred to by the Deputy. Taking into account the underlying demographic trends and the level of potential increase in school place requirements...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Feb 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, Project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Feb 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, Project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The project referred to by the deputy has been devolved for delivery to Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB). The project is currently at Stage 3 of the delivery process and following a Departmental review of the Tender Assessment Report, approval for Stage 4 construction will follow. At this stage, it is not possible to provide a timeline for completion of the project; Donegal ETB...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The project referred to by the Deputy is at Architectural Planning Stage3 – Tender Action and Award. A tender process can take between 8-12 months to complete, subject to no issues arising. My Department has a large pipeline of projects for delivery under the school building programme, including the project referred to by the Deputy. The main elements of this pipeline currently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: In 2018, my Department established a Steering Group on Teacher Supply to facilitate multi-agency engagement and to lead on a coordinated programme of actions to support the supply of teachers. Arising from the work of this Group and its various substructures, the Teacher Supply Action Plan was published in November 2018. The Action Plan called for the development of upskilling programmes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Feb 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 148,000 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 (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 183, 190, 193, 202, 213, 224, 235, 247 and 253 together. In 2018, my Department established a Steering Group on Teacher Supply to facilitate multi-agency engagement and to lead on a coordinated programme of actions to support the supply of teachers. Arising from the work of this Group and its various substructures, the Teacher Supply Action Plan was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Media (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education's social media accounts posted a total of 69 videos during 2022. Of these all but 9 included closed captioning or subtitling, where three of those that did not have closed captions were Irish language versions of a video where the English version did have closed captions. This equates in percentage terms to 86 per cent. 16 social media videos (23 per cent) included...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 185 to 187, inclusive, together. My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychological support to all recognised primary and post-primary schools. The NEPS service provides access for all schools to: - Psychological support in the event of a Critical Incident - A Casework Service for individual children...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Feb 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 Enrolments (8 Feb 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. The Admissions act applies to all recognised school, fee charging or schools in the free scheme. The school referred to by the Deputy is not a private fee paying...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 191 and 226 together. The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authorities, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). My Department does not currently collate data on the number of vacant posts per subject in post...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 192 and 227 together. My Department is aware of the survey referred to by the Deputies. In 2018, my Department established a Steering Group on Teacher Supply to facilitate multi-agency engagement and to lead on a coordinated programme of actions to support the supply of teachers at post-primary level. Arising from the work of this Group and its various...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The site identification and assessment exercise for the school referred to by the Deputy is ongoing. Given the commercial sensitivities associated with land acquisitions generally I am not in a position to comment further at this time. I wish to assure the Deputy that the provision of a permanent location for this school is a priority for my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The recruitment of teachers is a priority area of action for the Department given the importance of ensuring that every child's experience in school is positive and that they have available to them qualified, engaged, and supportive teachers to support them in their learning. The Teaching Transforms website provides a comprehensive range of information for persons considering becoming...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 196 and 197 together. Data in relation to the funding of the bodies referred to by the Deputy, in the 2022 calendar year, is currently being compiled by my officials.  A response will issue to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authority, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). My Department is aware of the issue in the school referred to by the Deputy. Ensuring a sufficient supply of qualified teachers is a priority area of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authority, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012).  My Department is aware of the issue in the school referred to by the Deputy. Ensuring a sufficient supply of qualified teachers is a priority area of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authorities, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). My Department does not currently collate data on the number of vacant posts in post primary schools on a subject level basis or on the numbers of...