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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Climate Action Plan (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The annual payment to the climate action fund scheme for International air travel over the past five years (2020-2024) is outlined in tabular form below. My Department will sum the total of all emissions liabilities incurred over the course of 2025 and then make a payment to the fund manager as set out in Circular 01/2020. A detailed breakdown of the carbon emissions in tabular form by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 154, 155 and 156 together. Education Support Centres (ESC) are independent bodies recognised under Section 37 of the Education Act (1998). This legislation states that “An education support centre shall have a management committee, to manage the business and staff of that centre.” Decisions about how to run the centre to achieve the best...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Education Support Centres (ESC) are independent bodies recognised under Section 37 of the Education Act (1998). This legislation states that “An education support centre shall have a management committee, to manage the business and staff of that centre.” Decisions about how to run the centre to achieve the best teacher professional learning (TPL) opportunities for all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The criteria required to have incremental credit awarded to qualified Special Needs Assistants (SNA) is set out in Circular 0139/2006 and was agreed with the unions representing the Special Needs Assistants, School Management Representatives, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Department of Education. The relevant unit of the department has not received an application...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Requirements for school places are 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 data from a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Pensions Unit records indicate that correspondence was received on this matter from the person concerned on 5th February 2025. Appropriate procedures will be followed in relation to this request, and officials from my Department will reach out directly to the individual to provide further assistance regarding their pension entitlements. Members seeking information on their pension...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: On the 11th of September 2024, my predecessor as Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, welcomed the announcement from Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST) that CBS Synge Street will transition from an English medium, single-sex post-primary school to a co-educational Irish-medium Gaelcholáiste commencing with the first year intake in the school year 2026/2027. This will increase the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 162 and 163 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for life safety system works. This application was approved and payment of the approved works is currently being processed by the EWS team, once processed a school can generally expect to receive the funding within 10 working days.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. 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 minimum...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: As previously advised, the purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. Bus Éireann endeavours to ensure that a reasonable level of transport service is provided for each eligible child. The School Transport Schemes are intended to cater...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the deputy refers has submitted two applications for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS), one for mechanical and electrical (M&E) works, and one for roof works. It is important to note that the EWS operates on the basis of a minimal scope of works required to remedy an emergency situation, which is defined as a situation which poses an immediate risk...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 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...

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: - a child's right to education is enshrined in the Constitution and, under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, must be accessible on an equal basis with others in the community in which they live; and - the Government is committed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 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: Schools Building Projects (13 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question for 1 x Mainstream classroom modular and the school authority has subsequently requested that this modular be changed to provide 1 x Special education needs classroom. The purpose of my Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school 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: Education Policy (13 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Offers of and amendments to accommodation arrangements for all Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection is in the remit of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY). When the DCEDIY confirm that relocations of Ukrainian families to other accommodation centres are necessary, my Department works with DCEDIY to minimise the disruption to any children attending...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved a project under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme to provide 3 General classrooms, 1 Textiles room, 1 Music room, 1 DCG/Tech room, 1 Home Economics room, 2 Science laboratories with 1 Prep area and a 2 Classroom SEN base. This project has been devolved for delivery to KWETB (Kildare & Wicklow...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (13 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Government has accepted the recommendation to establish a Commission of Investigation which is the principal recommendation of the Report of the Scoping Inquiry into Historical Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools Run by Religious Orders. The Report of the Scoping Inquiry made a number of further recommendations, including that consideration be given to expanding the remit of the...