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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 May 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 149,000 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: Early School Leavers (11 May 2023)

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: School Transport (11 May 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 Transport (11 May 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 Transport (11 May 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 Correspondence (11 May 2023)

Norma Foley: The teacher to which the Deputy refers, applied for incremental credit initially under circular 29/2010 with regard to their prior service in a school in Waterford. It is a requirement of circular 29/2010 that a teacher is registered with the Teaching Council to qualify for incremental credit under this circular. In order to be registered as a post primary teacher with the Teaching Council,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 May 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, my Department is included among the prescribed bodies to whom local authorities send draft development plans, local area plans or proposed variations to development plans for comment and observations. This enables local authorities to reserve future school sites in areas designated for proposed housing development. My Department is currently engaged with Louth...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 May 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 Transport (11 May 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 (11 May 2023)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers to was approved funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to build a 2 SEN Classroom Base. The signed Form of Acceptance, including details of the Design Team and Fees, was received by my Department on 19 April 2023. The project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority and is currently at the Design Stage. It is now a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (11 May 2023)

Norma Foley: Following engagement with the relevant stakeholders, issue of preliminary report, which was circulated to the Raheny school community, feedback provided and views shared, the facilitator issued their final report to the school patron. The report concludes that the Raheny schools are not amenable to, nor potential candidates for, transfer of patronage, and that the three Raheny schools should...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (11 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that engagement with the owner of the property in question is currently ongoing with a view to clarifying their position. My Department is also separately considering school accommodation needs in the area.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (11 May 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: School Admissions (11 May 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: Question Heading for question(s) 76 (10 May 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 (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers was granted funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to build a 2 classroom SEN Base, new Music Room and 5 classrooms, with new ground floor entrance foyer, relocated administration facilities, meeting rooms, boiler room and all additional associated works. I can confirm that the project is currently at design stage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 79, 87 and 93 together. I am pleased to inform the Deputies that all outstanding payments to the school in question in respect of home tuition have now been processed. The purpose of the Home Tuition Grant Scheme is to provide funding towards the provision of a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of specific reasons, are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, there are a number of published reports highlighting the ongoing needs of survivors and the lifelong difficulties they encounter. It is also very important that the views of survivors of institutional abuse are heard in this regard. My Department commenced a structured process of consultation with survivors and the initial phase of this process resulted in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I recently announced details of Ireland’s first national primary school book scheme, which will provide free schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks, in recognised primary schools and special schools. More than 558,000 pupils enrolled in approximately 3,230 primary schools, including over 130 special schools, will benefit from this measure. The total investment, of over €50...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: Following engagement with the relevant stakeholders, issue of preliminary report, which was circulated to the Raheny school community, feedback provided and views shared, the facilitator issued their final report to the school patron.  The report concludes that the Raheny schools are not amenable to, or potential candidates for, transfer of patronage, and that the three Raheny schools...