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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department has a number of ongoing engagement processes with the patrons of schools, which deal with specific areas. These include: - Primary Education Forum and Post -primary Education Forum: the membership of both forums include patron and management bodies which provide supports to patrons amongst other representative groups. These forums deal with the pace and sequence of change...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department has a number of ongoing engagement processes with the patron of schools, which deal with specific areas. These include: - Primary Education Forum and Post Primary Education Forum: the membership of both forums include patron and management bodies which provide supports to patrons amongst other representative groups. These forums deal with the pace and sequence of change...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application from the school in question under the Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for two special education classrooms. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers was granted approval under my Department's Additional School Accommodation Scheme to provide 3 mainstream classrooms (prefab replacement) and a 2 classroom special educational needs base. This project is devolved to the school authority for delivery. The project is currently at Stage 1 (design) of the architectural process. While the school appointed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I wish to advise the Deputy, that my department is in receipt of an application for the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school authority in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The large scale capital project referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. The next stage in the process will be the authorisation to the issue of the Letter of Acceptance. The large-scale capital project remains a priority for delivery and department officials will be in contact with the Design Team regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to CEIST as part of a campus project. The project is currently at Stage 2b of the architectural planning design process. This stage of the process allows for detailed design and planning, obtaining the necessary statutory permissions and the preparation of tender documents. The planning application was submitted...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The brief for Rush NS is the construction of a new 2 storey 32 classroom school with 2 SEN classrooms, GP hall and all ancillary accommodation and external works. The project is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. A tender report was received from the Design Team in 2023 and was reviewed by my Department, during the course of this review it was noted that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers has been granted capital funding under the Department’s SEN Reconfiguration & Modular Accommodation Programme for the provision of two Special Educational Needs (SEN) classrooms. This programme involves the use of Project Management supports which is designed to enable the accommodation to be provided as quickly as possible and help...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of school buildings to provide 3 Mainstream classrooms, 1 SET Room and a 2 classroom SEN base. I can confirm that this project received the Departments approval to move to Stage 2a in Q2 of 2024 and the Department now awaits the submission of the Stage 2a Cost Plan to include any cost implications...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1007, 1008 and 1009 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 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: Child Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The development of digital skills and literacy must start from a young age. The Department of Education’s response to the provision of digital skills and literacy within early childhood and care and school settings includes: o Curriculum at all levels o Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 o STEM Education Policy Statement 2017-2026 o Literacy, Numeracy and Digital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 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 Transport (29 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: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The large-scale capital project for the school referred to by the Deputies is the provision of a new 600 pupil school building including all associated ancillary accommodation. The project was originally authorised to proceed to tender, upon completion of the prequalification shortlisting process in September 2022. Planning Permission was due to expire in December 2022 and it was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 of mine. The decision-making authority for any change of status is the patron/trustees of the school concerned and it is open to any patron to submit...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The project referred to by the Deputy has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a programme of school building projects. The brief for the project is to provide a new build replacement school for a long-term projected enrolment of 1,000 pupils including a 4 class SEN base. The project is currently in the final stages of Stage 2b of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The campus project referred to by the Deputy has been devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB) on behalf of the school authority. The project was authorised by the Department to proceed to Stage 3 of the architectural design process (tender stage) in November 2024 and KWETB confirmed in January 2025 that the project had gone to Tender. The date...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 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...