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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy received the following capital funding in the year's 2023,2024 and 2025 - - 2025 2024 2023 Minor Works €9,644 €9,662 Furniture & Equipment €897 Schools ICT - capital €0 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy received the following capital funding in the year's 2023,2024 and 2025 - - 2025 2024 2023 Minor Works €13,584 €13,714 Furniture & Equipment €1,347 PV Panels €9,406 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Entitlement to specific employment terms and conditions is determined by a number of factors, including the nature of the role to be undertaken by the individual, the statutory basis on which various terms and conditions are applied, sector-specific agreements which have been reached through established Industrial Relations mechanisms and whether the employee is directly employed by a public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: As set out in the Programme for Government, my department is currently developing an Action Research Project to trial new administrative supports and arrangements for principals and boards of management to reduce the non-educational aspect of their workloads. Planning work has commenced on the costing, structure, and evaluation design of the trial, including draft administrative role job...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: International evidence is clear on the vital role that school leaders play. School leadership is second only to teachers when it comes to transforming student outcomes. High-quality leadership correlates with improved teaching practices. Yet, the role of school leaders has become increasingly complex and challenging due to the changing nature of schools as organisations and the increasing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy that my department is in receipt of an application for funding from the school in question. This application for temporary accommodation is being assessed under the department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and special education needs (SEN) accommodation is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: This school was approved under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme 2022 to provide one mainstream classroom. The project has been devolved for delivery to the School Authority. The school proceeded to Stage 2b (planning) without the mandatory departmental approval. The school were advised of this by the Department and asked to submit their estimated cost plan for review. Comments...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Major Building Project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of architectural planning Stage 2b – Detailed Design, which includes the application for all statutory consents, including Planning Permission, Disability Access Certification and Fire Safety Certification and the preparation of the Tender documentation. All statutory consents have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: Education and Training Boards (ETBs) were established under the Education and Training Boards Act, 2013 (www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2012/83/) which provides that each ETB is a statutory body having its own corporate status. It is therefore the responsibility of each ETB to manage the day-to-day operation of the organisation, including the management of staff. It should be noted that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: Membership of Public Bodies Leave is available to post primary teachers who are members of public bodies such as county councils or statutory local bodies. However this leave is not a statutory entitlement. While the employer should take reasonable measures to facilitate the request, they must ensure the educational, welfare and care needs of students takes precedence. The current rules...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy that my department is in receipt of an application for funding from the school in question. This application for temporary accommodation has been assessed under the department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and special education needs (SEN) accommodation is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The project referred to by the Deputy has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a programme of school building projects. The brief for the project is to provide a new build replacement school for a long-term projected enrolment of 1,000 pupils including a 4 class SEN base. The project is currently in the final stages of Stage 2b. Once a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of school buildings to provide 4 Mainstream classrooms, 2 classroom SEN base and ancillary. I can confirm that this project recently received the Departments approval to go to stage 2a and the Department now awaits submission of a stage 2a report. The preferred option selected for progression has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred by the Deputy has been approved to enter the Department's pipeline for school building projects, to provide one mainstream classroom and one special education teaching (SET) room under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme.A Stage 1/2a report was submitted and reviewed from both a technical and cost perspective in accordance with the requirements of the public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the departments pipeline of school buildings projects to provide the following accommodation: 8 general classrooms, 4 special education tuition rooms, 1 music room, 1 textiles room, 1 art room, 1 project store, 1 multimedia room, 2 science laboratories and preparation area, 1 library and a general purpose dining hall. The project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of projects under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme for the provision of 11 general classrooms, 3 SET rooms, 1 multimedia room, 1 textiles room, 1 science lab and prep area, 2 classroom SEN base and the removal of 3 prefabs. An additional SEN base was added to the project a few months after...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: There are 5 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) providing primary Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in Ireland; four State-funded providers and one private provider. Each of the four primary State-funded providers has both concurrent (undergraduate) and consecutive (postgraduate) programmes: These are:DCU Institute of EducationMarino Institute of EducationMaynooth University (Froebel...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (8 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: There are 354 members of staff with an annual salary of over €100,000 employed by my Department. The range and number are tabulated below. Number of Staff Range 262 100,001 - 120,000 79 120,001 - 150,000 2 150,001 - 180,000 10 180,001 - 210,000 1 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for my Department, and for the government. The DEIS programme is a key policy of government to tackle concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. It provides a targeted range of supports and is additional to the universal supports provided to all schools, such as the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (7 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the current requirements for the mandatory ‘Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht’ or Gaeltacht Learning Periods (GLPs) for primary Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes takes the form of 2 x 2-week placements, which are outlined in the Teaching Council’s Céim: Standards for Initial Teacher Education. Budget 2020 provided for the...