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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (8 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The Framework for Junior Cycle (2015) provides the underpinning for the Junior Cycle. The Framework gives students the opportunity to develop a wide range of knowledge and skills – to equip them for further learning, for work, for responsible and active citizenship, and for healthy living. The Junior Cycle has been developed and implemented over several years, with the final phase of...

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

Norma Foley: As Minister for Education, I believe it is crucially important that children and young people are actively supported to access education in its fullest forms. This Government recognises that the cost of preparing children for school each September can be a cause of financial difficulty and worry for many Irish families. As you are aware, on the 5th of March this year, I announced details of...

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

Norma Foley: Pensions Unit records indicate that no correspondence was received on this matter from the person concerned. To address such matters, we recommend that individuals contact our Pensions Unit Customer Service team directly. Contact details are available on our website as follows: Officials from my Department will reach out to this person directly to provide further assistance.

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

Norma Foley: 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 2 classroom Special Education Needs base, 12 Special Education Tuition rooms and reconfiguration of an existing staff room to provide a Home School Class Liaison room and new replacement staff room. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (8 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: Information in relation to consultancy expenditure in my Department is compiled annually in respect of the previous year and published online at The data in respect of 2024 will be published online in Q1 2025.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2025 (8 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

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

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that to date the school in question has not submitted an application for capital funding, under my Department's Additional School Accommodation Scheme for a 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 Transport (8 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: A range of measures introduced over the last year demonstrate my commitment to continued investment in our education system. In addition to numerous actions taken in recent years to address teacher supply, a number of specific, targeted measures were introduced with new funding provided, including funding of €4 million for a PME fee refund scheme, which was launched in September 2024....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: Caretakers and cleaners are valued members of our school communities who carry out work vital to the operations of our schools. Under the February 2022 agreement the implementation of revised salary and annual leave entitlements for school secretaries is now fully operational, and lessons learned from that process are now playing a key role in the drafting and implementation of a similar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to confirm my Department has received no application for Major Capital Works from the school, referred to by the Deputy and there are no current plans for a new school building for the school in question. Since 2020, the department has invested over €5 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 950 school building projects and with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas (SPA) and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, including CSO Census data, Child Benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise and where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a payroll service to over 160,000 school staff and pensioners. As part of the payroll service, the Cycle to Work scheme is offered to over 130,000 school staff in primary, secondary, community and comprehensive schools. The terms and conditions of the scheme are outlined in Departmental Circular 56/2020. There are different options for payment which include one...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school referred to have been approved funding under my departments Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for capital funding for 5 mainstream classrooms, 2 special education tuition rooms, 2 special education classrooms, 1 universal access toilet, 1 textiles room and 1 multimedia room. The school also received approval in 2021 for funding for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Oct 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 x Special Education Tuition Room under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The responsibility for this project has been devolved to the school authority. I can confirm the...