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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The key drivers of capital investment in the school sector are as follows: demographic growth, particularly at post primary level increased demand for special educational needs provision alignment of school place provision with new housing development climate action objectives including deep energy retrofit. Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a wide range of supports to all schools, DEIS and non-DEIS, to support the inclusion of all students and address barriers to students achieving their potential. Supplementing the universal supports available to all schools, the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy initiative of my Department to address concentrated educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Apr 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: Departmental Correspondence (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education recently announced details of the 2024 Summer Programme on 21 March 2024. All schools have an opportunity to run a programme over the summer months for children with complex special educational needs and those at greatest risk of educational disadvantage, so that they can be supported, nurtured and encouraged to continue to engage in a fun and inclusive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of surplus permanent teachers to other schools where vacancies exist. Ensuring efficiency in the annual redeployment processes is significant in terms of managing the overall teacher numbers. It is an objective of the scheme that it is completed no later than 31 May each year. Stakeholders will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The schools to which the Deputy refers were approved projects under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme (19478L) to provide a Mainstream classroom in one school and two special education needs classes. These projects have been devolved to the school authority for delivery. The schools have made a subsequent submission to the Department to amalgamate these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Reform (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Under my Department’s Assistive Technology Scheme, funding is provided to primary and post-primary schools (including special schools) towards the cost of computers and specialist equipment which are required for educational purposes. The Assistive Technology Scheme is provided to supplement the overall approach to providing funding to schools for digital technology and equipment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved a project under my Department's Additional School Accommodation scheme for the provision of a special education needs base and a special education teaching room. The responsibility for delivering the project has been devolved to the school authority and they appointed a design team to progress the project through the various architectural...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional supports, special classes and special school places are provided. In 2023, my department spent over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Apr 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 process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria to an independent Primary Staffing Appeals Board. The appeal submitted...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Although the question does not specify to which scheme it refers, it is assumed to be in relation to the primary schoolbooks scheme as full details of the new Junior Cycle Schoolbook Scheme have been published and payments have issued to schools in March 2024. March 2023 saw the Department of Education establish Ireland’s first national Primary Schoolbook Scheme, which provides,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Apr 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 (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved a project under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme for the provision of one mainstream classroom, one staff room and the conversion of an existing staff room into a special educational tuition room. The responsibility for delivering the project has been devolved to the school authority and they have recently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this Government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The large-scale capital project referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department’s Construction Programme which will be delivered under the National Development Plan (NDP) as part of Project Ireland 2040 framework. The project is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. The tender report is under review by my department, the next step in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional...