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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the Department. My Department is aware of pressures for school places for the 2024/25 school year in Kilcock. As part of planning for September 2024, data on applications for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department is aware of pressures for school places for the 2024/25 school year in North Kildare School Planning Areas including Prosperous_Clane. As part of planning for September 2024, data on applications for admission has been received by the department from post-primary schools across these areas of enrolment pressure, and updated data on offers and acceptances continues to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). It is currently at Stage 2b of the architectural design process. KWETB recently informed my Department that the planning application was lodged with Kildare County Council in Quarter 1 2024. Subject to completion of the planning process, the project will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the Department. As the Deputy may be aware, for school planning purposes, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the Department. My Department is aware of pressures for school places for the 2024/25 school year in North Kildare. As part of planning for September 2024, data on applications for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: 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: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers is to provide a 4 classroom Special Education Needs base, general purpose room and ancillary accommodation under my Departments Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project was devolved for delivery to the school authority. I can confirm that this project recently received my Department's approval to progress to stage 2b (detailed design...

Seanad: School Enrolments: Motion (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I have another commitment I have to leave for. I will come in now and stay for as long as I can for other contributions. I thank the House for the opportunity to be here. I thank Senators O'Loughlin and Byrne for proposing and seconding the motion. It gives me an opportunity to set out the range of actions being taken by the Department of Education to plan for and deliver additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The major project referred to by the Deputy is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. A tender report was received by Department Officials in 2023, in the course of the review it was noted that the planning permission was due to expire in early December 2023 and a new planning permission was required. We are liaising with the Design team in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The Special Education Teaching allocation provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile and also encompasses the Language Support (EAL) allocation that schools were allocated in previous years. All schools are advised in the first instance to review whether the needs of newly enrolled...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that officials from the Pension Unit of my Department are currently in contact with the person referred to in your correspondence in relation to her pensionable entitlement. Officials in Pension Unit expect to bring these matters to a satisfactory conclusion once the individual concerned completes the necessary forms.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy has been approved for a project under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. This project includes the provision of 2 mainstream classrooms, 1 SET room and the refurbishment of 4 existing classrooms into 2 mainstream classrooms. The responsibility for delivery of the project has been delegated to the school authority. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department has no remit relating to the boarding facilities of schools. This element of the school is privately owned and managed and is a matter for the school board of management. The Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in that area. The provision of school places to meet the needs of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the Department is in receipt of an application, under the Additional Schools' Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question for additional mainstream and special education tuition accommodation. The purpose of the Additional Schools' Accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning - Stage 2(b) - Detailed Design, where the design team secure all statutory approvals and prepare the suite of tender documents. The Stage 2(b) Submission has been received in my Department and is currently under review. In order to assist with the review, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 43 and 44 together. My Department is committed to ensuring that grant-funded school caretakers will be afforded the opportunity to avail of a similar agreement that was offered to grant-funded school secretaries under the February 2022 WRC agreement. A deficit of data on caretaker terms and conditions despite a number of surveys had meant this was not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim Education and Training Board (MSLETB). I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the project was recently approved by the Department to proceed to Stage 2a of the architectural planning process. The Design Team will now begin working on the developed design. Once the Stage 2a submission is...