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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Following the implementation of calculated grades in 2020 and the dual approach of examinations and accredited grades in 2021, two types of intervention have been implemented in recent years: adjustments to examination and assessments arrangements, and a post-marking adjustment to outcomes. This post-marking adjustment has ensured that results in the aggregate have remained the same on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: My 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: Teacher Training (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: A comprehensive suite of professional learning to support teachers in relation to senior cycle redevelopment is being provided by Oide, the Department’s teacher professional learning service. The school year 2024/25 is the first year of a minimum 4-year framework for support for subjects in Tranche 1 of the Senior Cycle Redevelopment. Teachers of Tranche 1 subjects have received at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Following the implementation of calculated grades in 2020 and the dual approach of examinations and accredited grades in 2021, two types of intervention have been implemented in recent years: adjustments to examination and assessments arrangements, and a post-marking adjustment to outcomes. This post-marking adjustment has ensured that results in the aggregate have remained the same on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of school buildings under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to provide 4 special educational needs classrooms and 4 mainstream classrooms. This project is devolved for delivery to the Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board. A Design Team has been appointed to progress the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 430 and 492 together. As the Deputy may be aware, I recently announced details in respect of the Climate Action Summer Works Scheme (CASWS) 2026 onwards. The purpose of the CASWS is to devolve funding to individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works which, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 432 and 549 together. I can confirm to the Deputy that the department is in receipt of an application for capital funding for from the school in question. Since 2020, my department has invested over €5.8 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 1,300 school building projects and with construction currently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The current fifty fee-charging schools in the 2024/25 school year, generally do not get any State grants towards their running costs. The allocation of teachers (in fee-charging schools) is outlined in Circular 0008/2024: Staffing Arrangements in Voluntary Secondary Schools for the 2024/2025 school. The allocation ratio applicable to fee-charging schools is currently 23.1, which means that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. this figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 439 and 440 together. I should explain that applications relating to the provision of funding for issues relating to an existing school building can fall under a number of different delivery mechanisms including, most frequently, the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) and the Emergency Works Scheme. As the deputy may be aware, the purpose of the Emergency Works...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 child’s entitlement to education. Educational Welfare Officers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy is aware, in March 2022, the Minister for Education announced an ambitious programme of work for a reimagined Senior Cycle where the student is at the centre of their Senior Cycle experience. The Programme for Government commits to continuing the programme of reform of Senior Cycle to ensure that students benefit from up-to-date curricula, more diverse skills development and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Prefabricated accommodation in schools may be rented or purchased and funded by the 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 prefabricated accommodation at schools as requested. Within the context of a rapidly increasing school population my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 444, 457 and 458 together. I would like to thank Deputy Cummins for her questions regarding my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS). NEPS provides psychological support to all primary, post-primary, and special schools including:Psychological support in the event of a Critical Incident.A casework service for individual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Following the implementation of calculated grades in 2020 and the dual approach of examinations and accredited grades in 2021, two types of intervention have been implemented in recent years: adjustments to examination and assessments arrangements, and a post-marking adjustment to outcomes. This post-marking adjustment has ensured that results in the aggregate have remained the same on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: In academic year 2023-2024, the latest year we have final subject data for, 22 single sex boys schools offered Home Economics S&S (New Syllabus) as a subject for the Senior Cycle and 15 singles sex boys schools offered Home Economics as a subject for the Junior Cycle.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Please find attached requested data, single sex post-primary girls schools. The data was collated from the post-primary school lists for academic year 2024-2025 which can be found at the link below.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (8 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 448 and 449 together. Please find attached requested information.Please note that data is complied from the preliminary data for 2024-25 which can be found at the link below. Gaelscoileanna are those schools with an Irish classification of "all subject through Irish" with Gaelcholaiste having an Irish Classification of "all pupils taught all subjects through...