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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna DEIS (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department is committed to supporting the emotional wellbeing of all children including those who may have experienced trauma. The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) has engaged in extensive national training of school staff in the area of trauma-informed practice and have developed a eLearning course for school staff - ‘Introducing a Trauma Informed Approach: The...

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

Helen McEntee: The provision of appropriate accommodation for all pupils including pupils with special education needs is a priority for this department. This is in two respects: firstly, in ensuring that there is sufficient provision for pupils with special education needs and secondly in designing school accommodation that meets the needs of all users and enhances the learning experience. Nurture...

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

Helen McEntee: The Professional Master of Education (PME) is a two-year, full-time Level 9 postgraduate professional teacher education programme designed to qualify graduates as primary and post-primary teachers. Changes to the duration and content of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes were made in response to recommendations in the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: Citizen’s Assemblies are organised and run by the Department of the Taoiseach, thus queries in relation to the cost of holding a Citizen’s Assembly should be directed to that department. There is, however, a commitment in the Programme for Government to hold a convention bringing together all stakeholders in education. While my officials are continuing to plan for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (12 Jun 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 a three classroom SEN base under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme. This project has been devolved to the school authorities for delivery. In May 2025 a Stage 3 (tender report) was received by my Department which is...

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

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for toilet facilities The purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide funding specifically for unforeseen emergencies. It does so by ensuring the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are in need of resources as a result of an emergency...

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

Helen McEntee: The school referred by the Deputy has been approved to enter the Department's pipeline for school building projects to provide for 2 Science labs and prep area, 1 Home Economics room, 1 Textiles room, 1 Music Room, a 2 Classroom SEN base and ancillary. The Stage 1 Report was received by my Department in April 2025 and is currently being reviewed from both a technical and cost perspective...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The 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 and general up-keep, and the ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 373 and 374 together. 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. The current pupil teacher ratio at post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The major building project for the schools referred to by the Deputy will deliver a new 1,000 pupil post primary school with accommodation and 6 classrooms for children with special educational needs and a new 8 classroom primary school with accommodation and 2 classrooms for children with special educational needs at Ballincollig, which will be delivered as part of a shared educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy was approved under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to enter my Department’s pipeline of school buildings for 2 General Classrooms, 1 Engineering Room, 2 Construction Rooms with 1 Prep Area, 1 Design & Communication Graphics room, 1 Multi Media room, 1 Graphics room, 1 Science Room with 1 Prep Area, 2...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to was approved to enter my department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide 4 General Classrooms, 2 SET Rooms, 1 Music Room, 1 Graphics Room, 1 Science Lab with Prep area, 1 Art Room, 2 Construction/Engineering Rooms with Prep area and a 2 classroom SEN Base. This project has been devolved for delivery to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The project referred to by the Deputy is devolved for delivery to Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB). The project is currently at Stage 2a (the developed design stage) of the architectural process. As part of this process a stage 2a report was submitted in May 2025 by the project Design Team for review by the Department. Once this information is reviewed and approved by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 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) has now issued to all recognised primary and post-primary schools. This ICT funding is being provided to schools to enable the continued embedding of digital technologies in their teaching,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Tipperary Education and Training Board. The project is currently at Stage 2a of the architectural planning design process (detailed design). The Stage 2a report has recently been submitted to the Department and is currently under review. Once the Stage 2a review is complete and approved, the next step for the Design...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: Menstrual education is supported in the Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) curriculum at primary level in a number of strands, including the ‘Myself’ and the ‘Knowing about My Body’ strand units. Opportunities are also provided in the SPHE curriculum at both junior and senior cycle to address reproductive health including fertility and for further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The project for the school to which the Deputy refers, has been devolved to the school Board of Management for delivery, with the assistance of the Joint Managerial Body (JMB). This major building project includes an extension, refurbishment and demolition works which will deliver 750 post primary school building. The project is currently at Stage 2b. Stage 2b allows for detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers is at Stage 3 - Tender Action and Award. The Design Team have completed a Pre-tender estimate of the cost of the works, which is to be submitted to my Department for assessment. Once that assessment is complete, the project could proceed to tender in Quarter 3.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education and Youth delivers payroll services to approximately 3,700 non-ETB schools and over 144,000 school staff each fortnight. Payslips are made available to serving and retired school staff, paid through the Department’s payroll service, in either one of two formats, as paper payslip or as electronic payslips. The Department uses the Digital Postbox...