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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The redeployment arrangements are a mechanism used to fill teaching posts. Each Main Redeployment Panel is created for surplus permanent/CID holding teachers in order to ensure that vacancies are offered in the first instance to these teachers. Information on staffing and redeployment in primary schools for the 2023/24 school year are set out in Circular 0006/2023. The Main Redeployment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department recognises the importance of the Minor Works Grant to primary schools. The funding provides good flexibility at local level to assist schools to manage and undertake works that support the operation of the school. A total of €280 million in Minor Works Grants and Enhanced Minor Works Grants has been allocated to schools between 2018 and 2022. The Minor Works Grant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to recognised 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 such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff. Schools are permitted to regard the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: More than €400.7 million of additional Covid-19 Capitation grant funding has been made available to recognised primary and post primary schools to provide for the implementation of infection prevention and control measures to reduce the risk of the spread of Covid-19 to date. As the Deputy is aware, the continued payment of Covid-19 capitation grants is determined by the prevailing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 261 and 262 together. In line with the arrangements set out as part of the current Government formation, since January 2021 Tusla Education Support Services (TESS), is under the remit of my Department. TESS operates under the Education (Welfare) Act, 2000, a piece of legislation that emphasises the promotion of school attendance, participation and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The Programme for Government includes the commitment to ‘provide a range of free, adequate, safe, and suitable period products in all educational publicly-funded settings (including schools, colleges and HEIs), to ensure that no students are disadvantaged in their education by period poverty.’ The Government has also taken the decision in 2021 to support the Private...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Apr 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 Accommodation (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that the provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for my Department. In order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 Apr 2023)

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: State Examinations (27 Apr 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: School Transport (27 Apr 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: Departmental Contracts (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The Planning and Building Unit of my Department has not identified any current contracts with the construction company referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that approval has issued for provision of 1 x SEN and 1 x MCRat the school referred, to cater for enrolments. The project is being delivered under the Department’s Devolved SEN Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation programme. This approach supports accelerated delivery of the accommodation and maximises assistance to the school for this brief, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that approval has issued for the provision of additional accommodation at the school in question. The project is being delivered under the Department’s Devolved SEN Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation programme. This approach supports accelerated delivery of the accommodation and maximises assistance to the school for this brief, the project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was granted approval under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for 4 General classrooms, 1 Construction Studies/Woodwork room & 1 Construction studies/ Woodwork prep area. A Stage 1/2A Report was submitted in August 2022 and was reviewed by my Department's Professional and Technical Team. Subsequently in November 2022...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission (SEC), has responsibility for the operation, delivery and development of the State examinations. There were a number of factors that affected the timing of results of State examinations in 2022. These included a challenge in recruiting sufficient examiners, the provision of deferred examinations at Leaving Certificate for candidates who experienced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Apr 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: Special Educational Needs (25 Apr 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 18,300 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 (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: As you are aware an agreement was secured to guarantee and support the roll-out and continuation of my Department’s ambitious school building programme. The agreement reached on 5 April is facilitating the continued roll-out of urgently required school building projects in both mainstream and special education settings, including the 58 projects that were temporarily paused due to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for individual school authorities, subject to procedures agreed upon under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). The Department does not currently collate data on vacant posts in schools per county. The recruitment of teachers is a priority area of action for the...