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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Jul 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 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 were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Jul 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: Budget 2025 (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: Pay and workplace reform measures for public servants have been governed by a framework of public service pay agreements for a number of years with the new Public Service Agreement (PSA) in place until June 2026. The value of public pay deals to the Government and the taxpayer is ensuring that pay costs are managed in a sustainable and orderly way and in a climate of industrial peace. By and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Jul 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 Accommodation (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the school in question was approved to enter the department’s pipeline of school buildings under my department's Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to provide a mainstream classroom and a special education tuition room. The stage 2B architectural report was submitted to my department and is nearing completion of its required financial and technical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 596 and 597 together. The requested data is set out in the following table. Please note enrolment data is taken from the POD and PPOD databases. All enrolments are as per the census date, the 30th of September 2023. Programme and Year Enrolments Junior Certificate 1 75,202 Junior Certificate 2 75,811 Junior Certificate 3 75,323 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department supports and encourages the use of School Buildings and School Sports Facilities outside of School Hours for community and recreational purposes, where feasible, including childcare and after school uses. A set of revised procedures on the 'Use of School Buildings and School Sports Facilities outside of School Hours' were published in June 2024. The purpose of these procedures...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 599 to 602, inclusive, together. The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/2024 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: Decisions regarding the use and deployment of digital technology in schools is a matter for the Board of Management of each school in the context of their digital learning planning. Schools are advised to consult with members of the school community including parents when planning for the introduction of digital technologies including devices with cost and other implications been fully...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Jul 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: Education Policy (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) is redeveloping the Primary School Curriculum with a commitment to building on the successes and strengths of the, current, Primary School Curriculum published 25 years ago in 1999. This commitment includes fostering a sense of Irish identity which was a key issue in primary education as part of the 1999 curriculum (Government of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: The position is that the form requested has been completed and has issued to the individual concerned. The form issued on 9th July 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 607, 608 and 609 together. Teaching Transforms is an annual campaign organised by my Department to promote the teaching profession. It encourages students to follow a career in teaching. The aim of the campaign is to increase the supply of teachers, to increase the diversity of the teaching workforce and to encourage career changers to consider teaching as a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: Since 2020, my department has invested in the region of €4.9 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 900 school building projects and with construction currently underway at approximately 300 other projects, which includes 30 new school buildings. These 300 projects currently at construction involve a total State investment of over €1.2bn....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: The school campus building project for the schools referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department’s Construction Programme and will deliver a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school and accommodation, including 6 classrooms, for children with special educational needs and a new 8 classroom primary school and accommodation, including 2 classrooms, for children with special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 614, 615, 616 and 617 together. The numbers employed in our schools will reach the highest ever level in the current school year. Currently there are over 42,900 teaching posts allocated across the primary school system. This represents an increase of just over 5,000 teachers when compared with the 2019/20 year when I took up office. In three of the recent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department recognises that school leaders play a key role in improving student learning outcomes by creating a positive school climate and environment as well as motivating and empowering educators and learners within their school community. It is generally accepted that the quality of school leadership is second only to effective classroom teaching, in having a crucial impact on student...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing schedule operates in a clear and transparent manner and treats all similar types of schools equally. The staffing arrangements include a provision whereby schools experiencing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: The Programme for Government commits to establishing a Citizens’ Assembly on the Future of Education ensuring that the voices of young people and those being educated are central. The establishment of the Citizens’ Assembly on the Future of Education and its Terms of Reference will be the subject of a Government decision and resolutions of the Dáil and Seanad at the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary schools. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to support students, access to a NEPS psychologist for responses to queries arising,...