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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: The purpose of the Climate Action Summer Works Scheme (CASWS) is to enable individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works on a devolved basis and, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the operation of the school. The CASWS operates on a multi-annual basis across a number of categories, such as roof works which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide 1 General classroom, 1 Music room, 1 Textiles room, 1 Art room, 1 Graphics room, 2 Multimedia rooms, 1 Science lab, 1 Science Prep area, 2 Technology and shared Prep areas and a 3 Classroom SEN base under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme (ASA)....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may aware my Department engaged with the schools affected by mica in June 2025 outlining that my Department is adopting a programme approach to the issue and will be assessing the appropriate pathway for all affected schools. In this regard officials from my Department still plan to begin conducting site visits to the affected schools in Q4 2025 and will continue to engage with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Project referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the department’s pipeline of school buildings to provide 2 Special education tuition room and a 2 classroom special education base under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project is devolved to the school authority for delivery. The Stage 2b (developed design) report is currently under review from both...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: The majority of the Department of Education & Youth’s capital building projects are devolved to individual school authorities for delivery. Fees for conducting tendering processes forms part of overall fees paid to Design Teams by the school authorities for their work on school building projects. In that context, it is not possible to provide a breakdown of the amount that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emigrant Support Services (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: This question related to the Global Ireland Strategy and returning emigrants is relevant to my Department in relation to school places for the accompanying children. My Department’s main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in the area.??Parents have the right to choose which school to apply to and where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 393 and 421 together. I can confirm to the Deputy that I, and officials from my department, have engaged with members of the group referred to by the Deputy. I met with the group personally on Monday 29 September. They recounted to me their traumatic experiences as children in residential institutions and also outlined their concerns regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna DEIS (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to realise 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 Government policy aimed at addressing concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. The new DEIS plan will be published before the end of the year, and it will include...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: I am pleased to announce that, arising from Budget 2026, an additional €8 million in current and capital funding has been allocated to support the sustainability and development of youth services. This investment strengthens the foundation for inclusive, high-quality provision — ensuring continuity, expanding reach, and enabling services to respond to the evolving needs of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to increasing funding to support schools, and the Programme for Government commits to increasing capitation funding to schools of all types to ensure that schools can meet the elevated day-to-day running costs. The commitment in the Programme for Government builds on the progress which has been made in recent years. As part of the capitation package in Budget...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: School authorities can apply for a variety of funding options for capital works from my department. Since 2020, my department has invested over €6 billion in our schools throughout the country under the National Development Plan, involving the completion of over 1,300 school building projects. In addition, over 200 SEN Repurposing projects have been delivered maximising the use of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 399 and 400 together. As the Deputy may be aware, my Department recently engaged with schools that have received additional mainstream teaching allocation posts informing them of a new pilot initiative which sought to automate the process for issuing the relevant Furniture and Equipment and ICT grant funding to qualifying schools. Whilst it was initially...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy contacted my Department in March 2025 seeking an update on its proposed additional accommodation. Following some initial engagement on the matter, my Department wrote to the school in June 2025 requesting clarification on a number of items. The Department is currently awaiting receipt of this clarification. Since 2020, the Department of Education and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my department is in receipt of an application under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme from the school in question. The purpose of my department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: In the lead up to the Budget, my Department received a number of pre-budget submissions from a range of different stakeholders in the education sector, including the INTO's pre-Budget submission, and from organisations involved in other areas of public policy. As in previous years, relevant submissions are reviewed, and these inform the areas for consideration that are negotiated as part of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, the 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 Accommodation (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: In June 2024 the school authority were issued approval, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme 2024, provision of accommodation under the Department’s Special Education Needs (SEN) Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation programme, to provide 2 X SEN. The Project Management (PM) Team have confirmed that they are currently engaging with the Fire Officer in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2025. As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2025. As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (21 Oct 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2025. As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The...