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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) is a national programme sponsored by the Department of Education and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. Introduced in 1996, it is a social inclusion programme that is aimed at students who are identified as being at risk of being socially or academically isolated or at risk of early school leaving before the (then) Junior...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) is a national programme sponsored by the Department of Education and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. Introduced in 1996, it is a social inclusion programme that is aimed at students who are identified as being at risk of being socially or academically isolated or at risk of early school leaving before the (then) Junior...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 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 are being transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. This figure includes over 135,000 children on mainstream services, 19,800 on children with special educational needs,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Teacher allocations to all schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. The criteria for the allocation of posts are communicated to school managements annually and are available on the Department website. The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The recruitment and appointment of?teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for individual school authorities, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). In that regard, there are more than 3,700 individual employers (boards of management of primary schools and post-primary schools, as well as ETBs). As...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department can confirm that the school referred by the Deputy was announced as a single stream school. This means the school has permission to enrol one junior infant class each year and to grow by one class group each year until it becomes an 8-classroom school. My Department has approved works to facilitate the extra class for 2024/25. I can confirm that this school has recently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 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: School Staff (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: As you may be aware, the majority of primary and post-primary schools receive assistance to provide for cleaning services under grant schemes. Where a school employs a staff member to support those functions those staff members are employees of the individual schools and as such responsibility for terms of employment and their rate of pay rests with the school or Board of Management. In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) is part of the Department of Education. NEPS provides a comprehensive, school-based educational psychological service to all primary, post primary schools and special schools. Through the application of psychological theory and practice, NEPS psychologists support the wellbeing, and the academic, social and emotional development of all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 83 and 84 together. In Budget 2024 over €47 million was allocated to continue implementation of the schoolbooks scheme at primary level. On the 8th May I announced details of year 2 of the Primary Schoolbooks Scheme which provides at a minimum free schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks to pupils in recognised primary and special schools. More than...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to inform the Deputy that a member of my payroll staff has been in contact with the individual referred to and also with the Revenue Commissioners to rectify the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: As Minister for Education I believe it is crucially important that all children and young people are actively supported to access education in its fullest forms. Since June 2020, and over the past four Budgets, I have secured funding to support measures aimed at achieving that goal. One of the most important policies in this regard has been the establishment of Ireland’s first...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 May 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 arrangements for the 2024/25 school year are set out in Circular 0011/2024. The staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 May 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: School Transport (29 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 Enrolments (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: For school planning purposes the Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose. Additionally, Project Ireland 2040 population...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The major project for St Mologa's SNS has recently completed Stage 2(b) of the architectural design process. Stage 2(b) involves securing all statutory approvals, detailed design and the preparation of tender documentation. The next stage, subject to relevant Stage 2(b) approvals, will be Stage 3, tender stage. Projects are subject to relevant due diligence by the Department at each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (29 May 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy has been advised the policy on patronage divesting is to use existing educational infrastructure to facilitate provision of diversity in areas where there is no demographic imperative to establish new schools. As part of the process of identifying a suitable accommodation solution which would facilitate the establishment of the school, my Department liaised with Cork...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Absolutely. I know that the Deputy has a particular interest in special education and has engaged with me a number of times on it. We are deeply committed in this area, and while we were coming from a low base, it is an achievement to say we now have 3,000 special classes in the scheme and we can see that, for example, of the new special classes that are in place, 11 are in County Louth....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I appreciate the case the Deputy is making, and he makes it well. I also acknowledge the case being made by the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, and Senator Blaney. I have met the board and the principal and acknowledge the great work they do there every single day. I also say that it was only at the end of February that the Department received acknowledgement of availability of the site, and...