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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: 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 for 1 mainstream classroom, to include alterations to the existing school to provide SET facilities, under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The responsibility for this project has been devolved to the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: 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, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that my Department is in receipt of an application, under the Additional School Accommodation scheme, from the school referred to by the Deputy. The purpose of the Additional School Accommodation scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year and where the need cannot be met by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 May 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 traveling 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 May 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 traveling 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 (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB). The Tender Report has been received by my Department and is currently under review from both a technical and cost perspective. Once completed my Department will revert to CMETB directly on the outcome and the next steps to progress this project. CMETB will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that the school in question has submitted an application for capital funding, under my department's Additional Schools' Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for mainstream and special education tuition space. The purpose of the Additional Schools' Accommodation scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department has received an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school authority in question The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year and where the need cannot be met by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The criteria, reviewed annually with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: In March 2023 I introduced a groundbreaking new free Primary Schoolbook Scheme, that has provided funding directly to recognised primary and special schools to provide at a minimum, free schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks to pupils. More than 563,000 pupils enrolled in approximately 3,230 recognised primary schools, including over 130 special schools, have benefited from this new measure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: 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 the following accommodation: 1 mainstream classroom, 2 SEN base, 1 office, 1 staffroom and a principal’s office under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The responsibility for this project has been devolved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with the statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that the school in question has submitted an application for capital funding, under my department's Additional School Accommodation Scheme for one modular special education needs classroom. The purpose of my department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that 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 Athenry. As part of planning for September 2024,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the issue of road safety measures outside the vested site areas of schools on public roads, such as road crossings, road signage, traffic calming measures etc., is a matter , for the relevant Local Authority. Local Authorities have the power to decide on road safety measures outside schools to ensure that measures are in place to protect the safety of local...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: A Regulatory Impact Analysis was not undertaken in respect of the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024 because no significant impacts on the existing regulatory framework were identified in advance of, or during, the preparation of the Bill.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024 provides for the delivery of a range of health supports and services to survivors of abuse in residential institutions. This is the same package of supports as that which has been provided to survivors of the Magdalen Laundries under the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The Bill provides that enhanced medical cards will be made available to survivors who received an award of redress from the Residential Institutions Redress Board, or a similar court award or settlement. As the Deputy will be aware, the Redress Board operated on a confidential basis and therefore my Department does not have detailed information or data relating to those who will be eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Caranua was established in 2013 under the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 to disburse funding supports to survivors from the contributions of €110m (€111.38m including interest) provided by the religious congregations following the publication of the Ryan Report in 2009. The 2012 Act provides that Caranua’s expenses, including both funding supports for...