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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tusla Education Support Service (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 retention. TESS has three strands namely the statutory Educational Welfare Service (EWS) and the two school support services the Home School Community Liaison (HSCL)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. this figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tusla Education Support Service (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 retention. TESS has three strands namely the statutory Educational Welfare Service (EWS) and the two school support services the Home School Community Liaison (HSCL)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Leave of Absence following Assault Scheme, which is contained in the department’s Circular Letter 0061/2017 for teachers and Circular Letter 0062/2017 for SNAs, provides for special leave with pay (subject to specified limits) to a teacher/SNA who is unable to perform their duties due to a physical injury following an assault that happened in the course of their duties and during...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the . As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The registration requirements for each route are set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Process (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm that my Department did not initiate or enact any Bill in the houses of the Oireachtas in 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I wish to advise the Deputy that requirement for 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 information system, using...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024 was published in April 2024 and completed Dáil Committee Stage on 18 June 2024. While the Bill did not progress further before the dissolution of the Dáil in November 2024, Government has committed in the Programme for Government to completing its passage through the Oireachtas and it has been restored to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school in question to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for roof works works. The EWS operates on the basis of a minimal scope of works and the school was advised to submit a revised scope of works with an accompanying itemised cost breakdown. Once this is received the EWS team will review the revised application and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: There are 5 core stages involved in the delivery of a school building project. These stages are reflective of the Capital Works Management Framework and the Government’s Infrastructure Guidelines. The stages range from Preliminary Design right through to completion and handover. The large scale capital project referred to by the Deputy for the provision of a new 600 pupil school and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Secretary General in the Department is paid at the Secretary General II level, in line with the civil service salary scales as set out by the Department of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery and Reform and published on . The most recent salary scales are available at: www.nsso.gov.ie/en/publications/notice-to-employees-of-1-oct ober-2024-pay-adjustments/ To date there have been two...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 289 and 292 to 296, inclusive, together. 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 the universal supports available to all schools, the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and improving the supports which are available to schools is a key priority for me as Minister for Education and Youth. 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 the universal supports available to all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 the universal supports available to all schools, the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy initiative of my department to address concentrated educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my department has received an application, under the Additional Schools Accommodation Scheme (ASA), from the school authority in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year and where the need cannot be met by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 the universal supports available to all schools, the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy initiative of my department to address concentrated educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Tipperary Education and Training Board. The project is currently at Stage 2a of the architectural planning design process (detailed design). Once the Stage 2a report is received, reviewed and approved by my Department, the next step for the Design Team will be to obtain the necessary statutory permissions and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-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 and general up-keep, and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Schools PV Programme provides eligible schools with up to 6 kilowatts peak of roof-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) installations on their roofs, which equates to approximately 14 solar panels. The Schools PV Programme is funded by the Government’s Climate Action Fund in line with the Government’s recognition that taking action on climate change is central to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (11 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The procurement of IT external services is essential to support my Department in providing a high quality service to the public in a cost effective and efficient manner and is governed by regulatory, legal and procedural frameworks. Where required, external service providers are engaged for a fixed period following procurement exercises conducted in accordance with Departmental procedures...