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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Communications (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education operates an X account (formerly Twitter) and a LinkedIn account. Both accounts are verified. No subscription has been paid. The Department uses social media platforms as part of how it communicates with the public and will continue to keep all platforms under review with a view to ensuring it can share its messages with the public in the most effective manner....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 251 and 257 together. 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, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 Dec 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 Staff (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department has allocated an equivalent of 928 guidance posts for the current school year 2023/24. Each school receives an allocation for guidance that is separate from the general allocation to schools. In this way, the hours for guidance are ring-fenced. The hours for guidance are subject to change each year as they are calculated with regard to student numbers in each school. Measures...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that approval under the Additional School Accommodation scheme issued to the school 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department has recently received 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The current Summer Work Scheme (SWS) 2020, is a multi-annual based scheme that was announced in 2019 and commenced in the summer of 2020. Schools were invited to make applications under the scheme in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Circular Letter 0027/2019. The purpose of the SWS is to devolve funding to individual recognised primary and post-primary school authorities, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Advertising (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department uses social media platforms as part of how it communicates with the public and will continue to keep all platforms under review with a view to ensuring it can share its messages with the public in the most effective manner. Department of Education Spend 2019-2023 YTD (ex VAT) Year X (formerly Twitter) 2019 € 2,543.80 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. The Department is aware of pressures for school places in the Malahide School Planning Area. A critical next step is to acquire clarity on the actual number of additional first year places required for 2024 in order for an appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: School caretakers are valued members of our school communities and the Department is fully aware of the vitally important role played by such individuals in the running of our schools. As you have mentioned in 2022 a suite of measures designed to improve the working conditions of school secretaries was agreed and since then comprehensive work to move school secretaries who have accepted...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teagasc na Gaeilge (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: Ba mhian liom a chur in iúl don Teachta go bhfuil an Roinn ag obair ar na sonraí a d’iarr sé a chur le chéile agus cuirfidh sí chuig an Teachta iad a luaithe is atá siad ar fáil.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teagasc na Gaeilge (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: Ba mhian liom a chur in iúl don Teachta go raibh cúinse nua curtha leis na himlitreacha athbhreithnithe ar ábhar díolúine ó staidéar na Gaeilge (Imlitir 0054/2022 bunscoile agus 0055/2022 iar-bhunscoil) a foilsíodh i Meán Fómhair 2022 lena gcur i bhfeidhm. Tá sé mar aidhm ag an gcúinse nua seo freastal ar riachtanais...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teagasc na Gaeilge (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: Ba mhian liom a chur in iúl don Teachta go bhfuil an Roinn ag obair ar na sonraí a d’iarr sé a chur le chéile agus cuirfidh sí chuig an Teachta iad a luaithe is atá siad ar fáil.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below: Minister Owned Properties in Wicklow Location Status East Glendalough School Wicklow Site in use by school Blessington Educate Together School Blessington Site in use by school St Mary's Senior National School ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: Temporary prefab accommodation in schools may be rented or purchased and funded by the Department or by the school authority itself, with or without Department sanction. For that reason it is not possible to provide the Deputy with a complete picture in respect of all temporary prefab accommodation at schools as requested. As the Deputy will appreciate, within the context of a rapidly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Éireann (6 Dec 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: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: All schools have been notified that unspent Covid-related additional funding must be returned. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (6 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: In line with actions under the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy (NTRIS), a pilot project, Supporting Traveller and Roma (STAR) in education, was established and rolled out incrementally from September 2019 in specific Traveller and Roma communities regionally, with the aim of addressing the barriers impacting on Traveller and Roma attendance, participation and retention in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (6 Dec 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: Disadvantaged Status (6 Dec 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...