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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Jan 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...provide a report on the assessment of education needs as part of the wider HSE’s Assessment of Need process was received on the 12th January 2024. I also wish to advise the Deputy that my Department does not comment on individual Court cases. Notwithstanding this I wish to inform the Deputy that this decision relates to the assessment of needs system established by the HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (25 Jan 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...,· School’s own panel of regular substitutes,· National substitute service,· Administrative Principal if applicable· Local arrangements that facilitate the pupils to be supervised in a manner that does not involve them being split between existing classes in classrooms.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jan 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...a report on the assessment of education needs as part of the wider HSE’s Assessment of Need process was received on the 12th January 2024. I also wish to advise the Deputy that my Department does not comment on individual Court cases. Notwithstanding this I wish to inform the Deputy that this decision relates to the assessment of needs system established by the HSE arising from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...interaction with student peers. The school-based programmes provide a more holistic experience for students and help retain the important connection with school and peers. However, the Department does recognise that not all schools would have been in a position to provide a school-based programme. In such instances, a home-based Programme is available for students with complex special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...interaction with student peers. The school-based programmes provide a more holistic experience for students and help retain the important connection with school and peers. However, the Department does recognise that not all schools would have been in a position to provide a school-based programme. In such instances, a home-based Programme is available for students with complex special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...the child and then a matter for the school/board of management having regard to their own enrolment/admissions policy. My department has no role in relation to processing applications for enrolment to schools and it does not maintain details of waiting lists in schools. Waiting lists are a matter for the individual school. Most schools operate an admissions process between October...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (17 Jan 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...with student peers. The school-based programmes also provide a more holistic experience for students and helps to retain the important connection with school and peers. However, the Department does recognise that not all schools would have been in a position to provide a school-based programme. In such instances, a home-based Programme was available for students with complex special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Dec 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...with student peers. The school-based programmes also provide a more holistic experience for students and helps to retain the important connection with school and peers. However, the Department does recognise that not all schools would have been in a position to provide a school-based programme. In such instances, a home-based Programme was available for students with complex special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Dec 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...children known to the NCSE as requiring placement in a special educational setting. The NCSE has the responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs. My department does not hold records on the needs of individual student's in this regard, therefore the information requested by the Deputy is unavailable. Parents seeking special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Dec 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...for children with special educational needs. Below is a table outlining the funding sourced through successive budgets. Special Education Budget 2020 - 2024 Year Budget € % of DOE Budget 2020 1.9bn 22% 2021 2.2bn 25% 2022 2.3bn 24% 2023 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Dec 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...and interaction with student peers. The school-based programmes provide a more holistic experience for students and help retain the important connection with school and peers. However, the Department does recognise that not all schools would have been in a position to provide a school-based programme. In such instances, a home-based Programme is available for students with complex special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Dec 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...and interaction with student peers. The school-based programmes provide a more holistic experience for students and help retain the important connection with school and peers. However, the Department does recognise that not all schools would have been in a position to provide a school-based programme. In such instances, a home-based Programme is available for students with complex special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Dec 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...and interaction with student peers. The school-based programmes provide a more holistic experience for students and help retain the important connection with school and peers. However, the Department does recognise that not all schools would have been in a position to provide a school-based programme. In such instances, a home-based Programme is available for students with complex special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...and interaction with student peers. The school-based programmes provide a more holistic experience for students and help retain the important connection with school and peers. However, the Department does recognise that not all schools would have been in a position to provide a school-based programme. In such instances, a Home-Based Programme is available for students with complex special...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (22 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...school and a post-primary school, where a child may have received a really good education in a primary school and then is at a loss as to where to go for post-primary. We want to make sure that does not happen. There is a huge body of work in the Department at present on forward planning for September 2024. These particular schools in the Senator’s constituency area have been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Supports (22 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...in both 2022 and 2023. The Department estimates that approximately 2,500 ha were impacted by flooding. These are grassland and in terms of financial support under the Shannon Callows flood scheme, the Department does not differentiate between whether the grassland was utilised for saving hay or silage exclusively or was used only for grazing. Some parcels along the River Suck and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (21 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...guardian to source a tutor at the earliest possible opportunity to allow for applications for registration/vetting to be made by the tutor to the Teaching Council, if necessary. This Department does not keep lists of tutors available to carry out home tuition, however to help parents source a home tutor for this scheme in their local area, the Irish Primary Principals' Network (IPPN) has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...educational needs. The NCSE has the responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews. My department does not have a role in making individual school determinations and schools should liaise directly with the NCSE in the event that additional supports are required. SNAs play a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...and interaction with student peers. The school-based programmes provide a more holistic experience for students and help retain the important connection with school and peers. However, the Department does recognise that not all schools would have been in a position to provide a school-based programme. In such instances, a home-based Programme is available for students with complex special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...for the 2023/24 school year. For ease of reference these allocations are broken down by school type and are available on the NCSE's website at: www.ncse.ie/set-hours-and-sna-allocations My department does not have a role in making individual school determinations and the school should liaise with the NCSE directly in the event that additional supports are required. The school can...