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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: Officials in my Department have been in contact with the Deputy’s office and as agreed will collate the required information and forward to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 288 and 289 together. The Department of Education prepares education expenditure data on an annual basis for the OECD, who then calculate total spend per students. These figures are included in their publication 'Education at a Glance'. The most recent year for which expenditure per student data at primary and post primary level is available is 2021. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide one mainstream classroom. The project was devolved to the school authority for delivery. A school building project has four points within the design and delivery process where approval from the Department to move to the succeeding stage is mandatory. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department is committed to supporting the delivery and development of youth work services and opportunities for young people across the 16 education and training boards (ETBs) including Laois Offaly ETB. In 2025, €138,580 was allocated to Laois Offaly ETB under the ETB Youth Service Grant, to support the ETB in carrying out its functions relating to the administration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school secretary and caretaker are at the heart of the school and are the key interface between students, parents, school leaders and other staff. Without them, our schools would be unsustainable. In supporting these vital school staff members, we also support the school community as a whole. The majority of primary and voluntary secondary schools traditionally received assistance to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school secretary and caretaker are at the heart of the school and are the key interface between students, parents, school leaders and other staff. Without them, our schools would be unsustainable. In supporting these vital school staff members, we also support the school community as a whole. Since September 2023 my department has been providing a payroll service for former grant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: I take it that the Deputy is referring to a canopy installed over the school's play area. I wish to confirm that this structure will be removed as part of the proposed refurbishment works to the property in question to facilitate the establishment of the new special school.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy will deliver a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school and accommodation, including 4 classrooms, for children with special education needs on a site at Kishogue Cross, Griffeen Avenue, Lucan, Co Dublin. The Letter of Acceptance (LOA) issued to the successful contractor on 18/11/2024 which allowed the contractor to mobilise on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school secretary is at the heart of the school and is the key interface between students, parents, school leaders and other staff. Without them, our schools would be unsustainable. In supporting these vital school staff members, we also support the school community as a whole. The majority of primary and voluntary secondary schools traditionally received assistance to provide for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The purpose of the Additional School Accommodation (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 school’s existing accommodation. The main focus of resources over the last decade and for the coming period is on provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has responsibility for the operation and delivery of the State examinations, and facilitates access to the examinations through its scheme of reasonable accommodations at the certificate examinations, otherwise known as the RACE scheme. The SEC has now commenced a comprehensive review of the scheme. I have asked the SEC to respond directly to the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (27 May 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, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 317 and 316 together. Tusla Education Support Service (TESS), which includes the statutory Educational Welfare Service (EWS), is under the remit of my department since 2021. The primary role of the EWS is to ensure that every child either attends school regularly or otherwise receives a certain minimum education; to ensure and secure every child’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 318, 319, 320, 321 and 322 together. Please find attached requested information. Please note that data provided is for academic year 2023-2024, the latest available year we have final enrolment data for. Schools in Roundwood are located in the Rathdrum School Planning Area and all schools in this SPA have been included in the table. Data is anchored on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: Please find attached requested information. Please note that data provided is for academic year 2023-2024, the latest available year we have final enrolment data for. Data is collated from the post-primary enrolments by programme and programme year data which can found at the link below: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-education/collections/post-prima ry-schools-enrolment-figures/.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 May 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. Since 2020, my Department has invested over €177 million in school infrastructure across County Wicklow. The Department is continually planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 May 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. Since 2020, my Department has invested over €177 million in school infrastructure across County Wicklow. The Department is continually...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 May 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. Since 2020, my Department has invested over €177 million in school infrastructure across County Wicklow. The Department is continually...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Deputy will be aware that at present my officials are developing an implementation approach to Opportunities for Youth that takes into account the transfer of youth functions to the Department of Education. Work is already underway in relation to several actions in the strategy for which the Department is the lead. In relation to Action 8, my officials have begun work on a review of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (27 May 2025)

Helen McEntee: In light of the transfer of functions to the Department of Education and Youth, my officials are currently drafting the implementation approach to support the delivery of agreed actions and ensure effective mainstreaming of strategic objectives of Opportunities for Youth: National Strategy for Youth Work and Related Services 2024-2028. Given the recent transfer, a precise timeline for...