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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The contract to build St Patrick's NS in Corduff comprised 2 phases with phase 1 being the construction of 16 classroom senior school and phase 2 being the construction of a 20 classroom junior school and 2 classrooms for children with special educational needs. Substantial Completion of Phase 1 of the project was achieved in January 2023 for the senior school. Following this, the contractor...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The large scale capital project at the school is for the provision of a new 600 pupil school and ancillary accommodation. The project is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. The original grant of planning expired in December 2022, but due to changes to the Planning Acts in September 2021, it was no longer possible to apply for an extension to the planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my department received an application in 2023 for capital funding, under the Additional Schools’ Accommodation (ASA) scheme from the school in question. The purpose of the Additional Schools’ Accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for pupils enrolled each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The Additional School Accommodation scheme project in relation to the school in question is currently under consideration. A further communication with issue to the School Authority shortly regarding next steps for transition into the delivery phase.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Mar 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 Enrolments (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy 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 for my Department. As the Deputy is aware, for school planning purposes my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The large scale capital project at the school is for the provision of a new 600 pupil school and ancillary accommodation. The project is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. The original grant of planning expired in December 2022, but due to changes to the Planning Acts in September 2021, it was no longer possible to apply for an extension to the planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education has to date entered into six separate public private partnership (PPP) contracts. In terms of costs for the completed projects, the payments made by the State over the life of the PPP contract (typically 25 years after construction) include not just the cost of design and construction but also the cost of financing, operating and maintaining the facility (including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: In relation to the proposed Special Unit for the school in Kildare, the school in question have been approved an additional accommodation project to provide 5 mainstream classrooms, 2 science labs and 4 Class SEN base. The project is currently at stage 2a (Developed Design Stage). My Department officials are currently engaging with relevant stakeholders in relation to providing an interim...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Éireann (7 Mar 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: Schools Building Projects (7 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that approval under the Additional School Accommodation scheme issued to the school in question for the provision of a 1 x 100m2 Special Educational Needs (SEN) classroom. Kerrigan Sheanan Newman Construction Consultants (KSN) has been appointed, from the Department’s Framework, to design and tender the project. This consultant is leading the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, including CSO Census data, Child Benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise and where additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (7 Mar 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: School Curriculum (7 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The range of subjects to be offered in the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate programmes in individual schools will vary in accordance with the teaching resources in the school and the needs and interests of the students and is a matter for school management authorities. At Junior Cycle, students generally study eight to ten subjects with English, Irish and Mathematics and History being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The permanent school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is part of a shared educational campus development which will deliver two new 1,000 pupil post-primary schools and a new 8 classroom primary school and accommodation, including 14 classrooms, for children with special educational needs. The project will be delivered under my Department's ADAPT Programme which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The site identification and assessment exercise for Educate Together Secondary School, Wicklow Town is ongoing and a potential property has been identified. An architectural consultant has been appointed to commence an assessment of this potential property. I wish to assure you that the provision of a permanent location for this school is a priority for the Department. Given the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (7 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: In November 2020, circular 0074/2020 issued to all schools advising school principals of the requirement to put in place appropriate contingency measures, to include a Communication and Learning Platform, to ensure that there would be continuity of teaching and learning in the event of a full or partial school closure. While those circumstances are no longer envisaged, such platforms remain...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (7 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to 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. The purpose of my Department’s ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for pupils enrolled...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equality Issues (7 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: A proposal issued to staff representatives last year to establish a new grade of adult educator, with a standardised pay scale aligned with the Youthreach Resource person scale. This grade will apply to tutors employed in ETBs to deliver FET programmes, who are currently employed under a variety of terms and conditions. The provision of a pay scale will allow for incremental progression and a...