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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education.  In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The public service agreements have allowed a programme of pay restoration for public servants to start. The starting salary for a new entrant teacher in 2012 was €30,702. As a result of the programme of pay restoration, the starting salary of a teacher from 1 October 2020 onwards will be €37,692. Section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 provides...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: Of the 3,963 schools (3,240 primary and 723 post-primary) in the State, 405 schools (280 primary and 125 post-primary) are currently using or partially using rented accommodation.  The current annual rental cost is €20.6m. As the information on individual school is commercially sensitive, this information cannot not be provided. The date of individual rentals ranges from 2000...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the Board of Management of the school referred to has been recently authorised to issue a Letter of Acceptance to the preferred bidder. Subject to no issues arising it is envisaged that construction will commence in mid October with a construction period of approximately 25 months.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department has provided €386,234 to date to rent lands for school use at the property referred to by the Deputy. The monthly rent is €10,833.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was established in September 2020 and opened in interim accommodation in the Greystones Lawn Tennis Club. A licence agreement is in place for this interim accommodation with a commencement date of 17th August 2020, for a period of eleven weeks.My Department does not generally disclose the value of particular leasing agreements as these matters are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Kildare & Wicklow Educational Training Board (KWETB). I can confirm that a design team to deliver this project has been appointed by the ETB in that respect. We understand from KWETB that the design team is preparing the Stage 1 report (preliminary design) and it is nearing completion. While at this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, a major building project for the school to which he refers is included in my Department's Capital Programme. This project has been devolved to the school's patron, Kildare Wicklow Education & Training Board (KWETB) for delivery and a design team has been appointed for the project. The role of the design team includes developing proposals...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department’s Construction Programme which is being delivered under the National Development Plan. The project is currently at Stage 1 of architectural planning which entails preliminary site surveys, location suitability and initial sketch scheme. The Stage 1 report has just been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The Education and Training Boards Act 2013 sets out that the acquisition, holding and disposal of land, or any interest in land is a reserved function of an Education and Training Board.  The Code of Practice for the Governance of Education and Training Boards, which my Department published in January 2019 requires ETBs to obtain formal Ministerial sanction before disposing (including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, a site has been identified to accommodate a permanent school building for the school to which he refers. My Department is working closely with officials from Monaghan County Council under the Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the acquisition of the site. As the site acquisition process is complex, it is not possible to give a definitive timeframe for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was granted funding under the Additional Accommodation Scheme 2020 to provide two mainstream classroom with en-suites.  This project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority. My Department is not in a position, at this point, to consider the request from the school for a PE Hall or library. The main focus of resources over the last...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The Leaving Certificate Geographical Investigation accounts for 20% of the overall marks for Leaving Certificate Geography. The purpose of the investigation is to allow students to experience the practical application of the core geographical skills that are central to all units of the syllabus including physical, regional, human and economic geography. Students are required to identify aims,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The Department engages the services of an external media monitoring provider for the monitoring of newspaper publications. Social media is monitored internally in the Department by the communications unit. Media Monitoring costs: In 2019, the  total spent was €30,314.21 including licensing fee for Newspaper Licensing Ireland and NLA Media Access. In 2020, the total spent to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the Department will be devolving the delivery of the project for the school to which he refers to Le Chéile Trust. The next step in that respect is for Le Chéile Trust  to enter into a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the Department.  Once this is in place, Le Chéile Trust will then proceed with the appointment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: Funding for the provision of Home Tuition was continued during the Covid-19 emergency restrictions where tuition was delivered by distance learning. Where Home Tuition could not continue via distance learning, Parents were given the option to apply to the Department to bank the hours sanctioned for the period and use them to provide tuition once in-home tuition resumed. Approximately 200...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The project referred to by the Deputy is currently in architectural planning.  Site surveys have commenced and a pre-planning meeting has been held with South Dublin County Council in advance of preparing the Planning Application, which will be the next key milestone in the progression of the project.  Until such time as planning permission has been secured, it will not be possible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: A major project for the school referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department's building programme to be delivered as part of the National Development Plan (NDP). It is intended that the project, when completed, will provide capacity for 1,000 students. The project brief is expected to be completed shortly. The project will be delivered by the National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. In the 2019/2020 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The amount expended on access to online and hardcopy media publications since May 2020 to date is €2,999.35. ">List of subscriptions