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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: Drogheda Educate Together Secondary School opened in 2019 in interim accommodation in a state owned building in Laytown/Bettystown. It has since re-opened in 2020 in further interim temporary accommodation at Colpe/Mill Road, Drogheda pending delivery of its permanent accommodation My Department is committed to providing permanent accommodation to meet the needs of the school to which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, the project to which he refers has been devolved for delivery to the local Education and Training Board (LMETB). A number of design issues have arisen with this project. These have included issues relating to the need for additional security features for the proposed building that became apparent at tender stage and which required a change in brief with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department is in the final stages of refinement of the new DEIS identification model, based on school enrolment data and the latest data available from Census 2016 using the HP Deprivation Index. A detailed quality analysis of the data has been carried out by members of the DEIS Technical Group which contains representatives of the Department’s Statistics and Social Inclusion Units,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. In the 2019/2020 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that my Department has recently published updated guidance on ventilation in classrooms on the back to school website and this includes guidance on the issue to which she refers. This can be found at the following web address: www.gov.ie/en/publication/7acad-reopening-our-post-primary-s chools/.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department's Design and Build programme. A pre-planning meeting was held with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council earlier in the year and this is informing the design for the project. Lodgement of the Planning Application will be the next key milestone in the progression of the project. To this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre and the HSE have published guidance for managing potential cases of COVID-19 in educational settings, which includes the testing strategy within an educational facility ‘Schools Pathway for COVID-19, the Public Health approach’ www.gov.ie/en/publication/a0bff-reopening-our-primary-and-sp ecial-schools/. This guidance recognises that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. In the 2019/2020 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department received advice from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) on the use of face coverings in educational settings on the 6th August 2020. It is a requirement for face coverings to be worn by teachers, staff in schools and students attending post primary school. However Public health advice also provides that cloth face coverings should not be worn by any of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The results of the Leaving Certificate 2020 Calculated Grades were made available to all students who opted to receive them at 9.00 am on 7 September via the Calculated Grades Student Portal. I would like to congratulate all students for their achievements in what has been a very trying time for them due to the impact of COVID-19 on their education. The Calculated Grades Student Portal has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department has published a suite of helpful guidance for the safe and sustainable reopening of schools. Each school is required to have a COVID-19 Response Plan for the safe operation through the prevention, early detection and control of COVID-19 in line with public health advice. This guidance is focused on the practical steps schools must take to minimise the risk of transmission of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education.  In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: Following the review of DEIS, my Department introduced an objective, statistics based model for assessing which schools merit inclusion in the DEIS Programme.  All schools will be assessed under this new refined model and therefore this negates the requirement for an application process. My Department is in the final stages of refinement of this model,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The building project referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department's Design & Build programme.   Planning permission was lodged on the 31st March 2020.  As with all school building projects, the exact timeframe for delivery of the school will be dependent on the grant of planning permission.  My Department officials will keep the Board of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: Ongoing engagement with my officials and officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform occur on a regular basis throughout each year. My more recent engagement with Government and the Minister for Public Expenditure secured a €375m support package and the publication of a roadmap to enable the safe return for schools. This reflected the key national priority of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The system of Calculated Grades was created to allow as many as possible of the 60,000 students in the Leaving Certificate class of 2020 to progress to employment, further education and training, or higher education in a way that is fair and equitable to all students. The system is underpinned by key principles of objectivity, equity and fairness. For the Calculated Grades system to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme (15 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: Evaluations of Centres for Education are carried out in Youthreach and other centres that are not recognised schools. During these inspections, specially trained inspectors evaluate the quality of centre management and leadership, the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, and the centre's own planning and self-review. They provide oral feedback to the staff and board of management...