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

Helen McEntee: Agreement has been reached in principle regarding disposal of Department land to the HSE near a school (details supplied) for a proposed Primary Care Centre. The transaction is currently on hold while the HSE evaluates current service needs and estate planning in the area with the newly delivered Clondalkin Primary Care Centre and the operational Rowlagh Health Centre.

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

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved to enter the department’s pipeline for a project under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project will provide for 3 Mainstream classrooms and 2 SET rooms. The project was devolved to the school authority for delivery. The school has requested a change that falls outside the scope of the current ASA project and,...

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

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved to enter the department’s pipeline for a project under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project will provide for 3 Mainstream classrooms and 2 SET rooms. The project was devolved to the school authority for delivery. I can confirm the project is currently at Stage 2B (pre-tender stage) and the school has...

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

Helen McEntee: The amount of capital and current funding provided by my Department to the school referred to by the Deputy from 2023 to 13 June is as follows: 2023 496,891.21 2024 503,458.92 2025 (to date) 438,222.48 The financial information provided is based on data from my Department's financial management system that has been...

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

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for toilet facility works. The application in question is currently being reviewed by the technical area within the EWS. Once a technical recommendation has been received the EWS team will engage further with the school as appropriate. The EWS team is aware of the urgent...

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

Helen McEntee: Temporary accommodation in schools may be rented or purchased and funded by my 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 accommodation at schools as requested. As the Deputy will appreciate, within the context of a rapidly increasing school...

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

Helen McEntee: My department's website, www.education.ie, is part of the GOV.IE platform, which is the portal for government services and information. As the OGCIO, (Office of the Government Chief Information Officer), a division of DPENDR, hosts and manages the GOV.IE platform, my department does not use any analytical tools to track its website traffic. The Deputy may wish choose to ask his question...

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

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved to enter the department’s pipeline for a project under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project was approved to provide for 2 Mainstream classrooms (Prefab replacement), 3 Classroom SEN base, and 2 SET rooms. The project was devolved to the school authority for delivery. In response to a request for an...

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

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy, that the school in question has accepted a brief for a traditional building project consisting of 4 mainstream general classrooms, 3 special educational tuition rooms and 2 special education classrooms under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme. Since 2020, my department has invested over €6 billion in our schools throughout the country...

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

Helen McEntee: I can advise that officials within my department are working closely with the Project Management team to ensure that this urgent additional accommodation is delivered to the school, in the quickest timeframe possible.

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

Helen McEntee: Please find attached requested data for academic years 2023-2024, it being the latest year we have published final enrolment data. We expect to publish final data for academic year 2024-2025 shortly and we will revert to the deputy with the data for 2024-2025 when it has been published. Data is taken from the POD and PPOD databases as per the annual published school lists which can be...

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

Helen McEntee: The most recent figures available concerns the students who began their post primary education in 2017. This cohort were due to complete their Leaving Certificate in the academic years 2021-22 or 2022-23. Figures for the 2018 cohort finishing in 2023-24 are yet to be published. The following table shows the number for pupils leaving school before completing their Leaving Certificate: ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The position is that there are currently 23,452 SNAs working in schools. Of these 2,362 hold junior posts (working 26.5 hours). There are also 4,210 SNAs who are job-sharing or work part-time.

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

Helen McEntee: Costs incurred in 2024: €3,936.00 (Inc VAT) Name of contractor: Q4PR. Description of works: The costs were for strategic communications advice related to the planned primary school survey (including overall approach, drafted materials and communications strategy).

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: Under the Programme for Government there is a commitment to aim to reduce the general pupil teacher ratio at primary level to 19:1 over the term of government and introduce targeted measures in schools with very large classes. This will build on the progress which has been made by the previous Government. The general average of pupils to teachers in the Primary Staffing Schedule...

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

Helen McEntee: The Programme for Government provides for a number of measures to support small schools, including introducing a new national small schools' project and trialing new administrative supports. The Government is very aware that small schools are an important part of the life of local communities. The current small schools' action research project established in 2021 is due to conclude at the...

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

Helen McEntee: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria to an independent Primary Staffing Appeals Board. The school...

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

Helen McEntee: The School to which the Deputy refers was approved funding under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation Scheme for a project providing two special education tuition rooms. The project is devolved for delivery to the school authority. The Stage 2b (developed design) report was received by my Department and is currently under review from both a technical and cost...

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

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my department has approved funding for the school in question for 2 special education classrooms, central activities space and sensory garden under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme. This project is currently at Stage 1 (preliminary design) of the architectural planning process. My department is not in receipt of an application in relation...