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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 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 (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for roof works. The application in question is currently being reviewed by the EWS team. Once this review process is complete the EWS team will engage further with the school as appropriate. The EWS team is aware of the urgent nature of the works required and will keep the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: As noted the school to which the Deputy refers submitted applications for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for life safety systems and roof works. The applications in question are currently being reviewed by the technical area within the EWS. Once a technical recommendation has been received back from the technical team, the EWS team will engage further with the school as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Under the Education Act 1998 the Board of Management of a school is the body charged with the direct governance of a school. The Board of Management is accountable to the Patron of the school. While the Department of Education provides funding and policy direction for schools, the Department does not have the power to instruct schools to follow a particular course of direction with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education has been providing a payroll service for former grant funded school secretaries with effect from 1st September 2023. The provision of this payroll service is part of a package agreed with Fórsa, the trade union representing school secretaries, following a series of engagements at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in 2022. The agreement provided for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The scope of works and associated costs are currently being finalised by the Design Team and Programme Manager, for submission to my Department. Upon review and approval, the modular building can then be installed, providing additional accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for me as Minister for Education and Youth. The DEIS programme is a key policy of Government to tackle concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. The DEIS programme provides schools with a targeted range of supports and is additional to the universal supports...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that as set out in the circulars on exemptions from the study of Irish (0054/2022 – Primary and 0055/2022 – Post primary) , “the decision to exempt a pupil from the study of Irish has very significant implications for his/her future learning and potential employment opportunities. Pupils should therefore be given every reasonable opportunity to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: In accordance with the Education Act 1998, schools are managed by Boards of Management on behalf of the relevant school patrons. Under the provisions of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, all schools have admissions policies, which have been approved by the patron. All schools must publish their admissions policy on the schools website. It is a key requirement of the act that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department is currently working with the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, as the patron of Synge St CBS, and the school management on the transition of Synge St CBS from a single sex, English medium school to a co-educational, Gaelcholáiste to meet the growing demand for a co-educational Gaelcholáiste in the Dublin 2, 4, 6 and 8 area. This first phase of this transition will involve...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The terms for retaining an acting allowance on a personal basis are set out in section 16 of Chapter 3 of Circular 0044/2019: 16. Retention of Post of Responsibility Allowances on a Personal Basis: 16.1 Where an acting Principal, acting Deputy Principal, acting Assistant Principal I or acting Assistant Principal II post is held for a period in excess of five consecutive school years, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, the purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide funding specifically for unforeseen emergencies, or to provide funding to facilitate inclusion and access for pupils with special needs. It does so by ensuring the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are in need of resources as a result of an emergency situation. An...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 25 March, I wish to advise the Deputy that there is a requirement for significant increases in mainstream and special class enrolments in the post primary school in question in 2025/26 and future years. The special school will also be required to substantially grow enrolments over the coming years to meet pressing requirements for special school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 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 (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for roof works. The application in question is currently being reviewed by the technical area within the EWS. Once a technical recommendation has been received back from the technical team, the EWS team will engage further with the school as appropriate. The EWS team is aware...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: As previously advised to the Deputy, the Department of Education has been providing a payroll service for former grant funded school secretaries with effect from 1st September 2023 a s part of a package greed with Fórsa, the trade union representing school secretaries, following a series of engagements at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in 2022. The agreement however did...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for me as Minister for Education, and for the Government. The DEIS programme is a key policy of Government to tackle concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. It provides a targeted range of supports and is additional to the universal supports provided to all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: From September 2018, a new specification for Leaving Certificate, Politics and Society, was introduced as a full optional Leaving Certificate subject. Politics and Society aims to develop the learner’s capacity to engage in reflective and active citizenship, informed by the insights and skills of social and p olitical sciences. Politics and Society is organised in four strands, each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers was granted funding under my Department's 2022 Additional Schools (ASA) Scheme to provide 1 Mainstream classroom, 1 SET room, 1 Graphics room, 1 Technology room and prep area and 1 project store. The school were also requested to master plan for 1 PE hall for consideration in the future. I can confirm that my Department received a request from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 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...