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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department recognises the vitally important role of secretaries and caretakers within school communities, as a key link between students, school leaders and other staff, ensuring that both the core needs of the school are met. Since September 2023 my department has been providing a payroll service for former grant funded school secretaries. This happened on foot of an Agreement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: We are living through a period of rapid change and it is essential that we equip children and young people with the skills and competencies they need to succeed and thrive in a changing world. That is a central purpose of Senior Cycle Redevelopment, which builds on Junior Cycle reform which started to roll out in 2014. Senior Cycle Redevelopment will also spread the assessment load on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy amalgamated with a neighbouring school on 15 May 2025 and so appointments would be made in the newly amalgamated school from that date. Where schools are amalgamating, there is a provision for the allocation of a concessionary mainstream teaching post(s) only in cases where the approved number of mainstream teachers serving in the schools at the time...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: At primary level, teachers are allocated to schools at an average of 1 classroom teacher for every 23 pupils, the lowest level ever seen at primary level. DEIS Urban Band 1 schools receive an average allocation of 17:1, 21:1 and 19:1 for junior, senior and vertical schools respectively. Under the Programme for Government there is a commitment to aim to reduce the general pupil teacher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The criteria for the award of incremental credit are set out in the Department of Education’s Circulars 10/2001 for Primary teachers, and 29/2007 and 29/2010 for Post-Primary teachers. The criteria for the award of incremental credit to recognised teachers was agreed under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council (TCC). These circulars provide for the award of incremental...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The information sought by the Deputy is currently being compiled by my officials. A response will issue to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 331 and 332 together. Tusla Education Support Service (TESS), which includes the statutory Educational Welfare Service (EWS), is under the remit of my department since 2021. The primary role of the EWS is to ensure that every child either attends school regularly or otherwise receives a certain minimum education; to ensure and secure every...

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

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers is part of a campus project and is devolved for delivery to CEIST. Following the recent grant of planning permission for the project, the Department now expect to receive the Planning Report for review. The design team will then finalise and complete the stage 2b report for submission to the Department. As soon as this report is received, reviewed,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Qualifications Recognition (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council register teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016 (www.teachingcouncil.ie). 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 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department has not had any expenditure on external training, simulations or advice in advance relating to appearances as witnesses at Oireachtas committees from 2021 to date in 2025. The information in respect of aegis bodies, within the scope of the Deputy’s question, is not held by my Department. Contact details for these bodies are set out in the attached document should the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: We expect to publish final enrolments for 2024-2025 shortly. The final enrolments include the enrolment by class data and we will revert to the Deputy as soon as this data is available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can assure the Deputy that officials in the Pension Unit of my Department will review the case in question and contact the person concerned directly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council register teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016 (www.teachingcouncil.ie). 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 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The staffing allocation for the processing of Incremental Credit applications is currently as follows: 1 Higher Executive Officer. 4 Executive Officers. 1 Clerical Officer.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The decision to close a school in response to a severe weather event is a matter for individual school management authorities around the country, taking into consideration the full guidance and direction available from the principal response agencies, especially the local authority. Individual school management authorities are best placed to do this in light of local weather conditions,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The estimated costs requested by the Deputy are provided in tabular form in the attached file. Estimates are based on the cost of New Entrant teachers at primary and post-primary level, and are inclusive of both substitution costs and Employer PRSI. Values are calculated on the basis of the starting point of all new entrants in 2024 and applied to the salary scales in place on 01/01/2025....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for me as Minister for Education and Youth, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department is committed to advancing educational equity for all learners, with targeted attention to groups at risk of disadvantage, including Traveller, Roma, and refugee students. To this end, the Traveller and Roma Education Strategy (TRES) 2024–2030, along with its Implementation and Action Plan 2024–2026, was published in July 2024. It represents a six-year,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy is aware, I recently announced €35 million in funding to support digital learning in schools. €35 million in grant funding for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is issuing to all recognised primary and post-primary schools. This ICT funding is being provided to schools to help them continue to use digital technologies in their teaching, learning and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for me as Minister for Education and Youth, 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...