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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: Ensuring that every child's experience in school is positive and that they have qualified, engaged teachers available to support them in their learning is a priority area of action for the Government. The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for individual school authorities, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 was published last year and is underpinned by an investment of €200m to support its implementation, committed to under Ireland’s National Development Plan (NDP). The first tranche of €50m issued to all recognised primary and post-primary schools in late 2021. The previous Digital Strategy for Schools 2015 to 2020 saw overall...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: Through Project Ireland 2040, we are investing at least €5 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for almost one million students and over 100,000 staff that learn and work in our schools every day. My Department has a proven track record of delivery. During the period June 2020 to date, 140 projects were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that this feasibility study has been completed and my Department is currently considering the optimum means to provide a new school building for St Finian’s Community College. In this regard, my Department has and will continue to work closely with the school authority, Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education & Training Board in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: 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 authority in question The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, my Department issued approval to the school authority in question for the provision of three special classrooms and ancillary accommodation. The project is being delivered under the Department’s Devolved SEN Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation programme. This programme provides project management supports to enable the accommodation to be provided as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The permanent building project for the school referred to by the Deputy forms part of a campus project to deliver a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school and a new 16 classroom primary school, including accommodation for children with special educational needs. This project is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme and is currently at tender stage. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2022/2023 school year, over 149,000 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services were provided...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: Earlier this year, I announced details of Ireland’s first national primary free school book scheme, which will provide free schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks, in recognised primary schools and special schools from this September. The total investment, of over €53 million, significantly increases the funding for school books previously provided to all recognised primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers to was approved a project under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme (ASA) for the provision of a two class special education needs base. The project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority which appointed a design team who the Department understands are currently preparing initial designs. Once a Stage 1 (design) Report is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Oct 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 have the flexibility to use...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2022/2023 school year, over 149,000 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 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: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, my Department issued approval to the school authority in question for the provision of three special classrooms and ancillary accommodation. The project is being delivered under the Department’s Devolved SEN Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation programme. This programme provides project management supports to enable the accommodation to be provided as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 was published last year and is underpinned by an investment of €200m to support its implementation, committed to under Ireland’s National Development Plan (NDP). The first tranche of €50m issued to all recognised primary and post-primary schools in late 2021. The previous Digital Strategy for Schools 2015 to 2020 saw overall...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Oct 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. Schools have been reminded that the Covid-19 Capitation payment is a temporary measure and is kept under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2024 (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: It gives me great pleasure to have secured €10.5 billion in total funding for Education in Budget 2024. This significant increase in funding ensures that the total budget is at the highest ever for our primary and post primary schools. The funding will ensure continued reduced costs for families; it will continue to tackle disadvantage and it will provide further supports to safeguard...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The Deputy will appreciate that using different locations on a map as a centre-point will give differing outcomes in terms of schools within a certain radius. Using Tyrconnell Park, there are 10 post primary schools within a 3km direct-line radius. All of these schools are within a 4km driving distance from that same point. They, with their ethos and gender intake, are listed in the table...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The project which the Deputy refers to has been devolved for delivery to Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB). The brief for this project is the provision of a new 32 classroom primary school and a two class Special Education Needs base. Approval under the Department’s Additional School Accommodation for refurbishment works to provide two special education...