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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (29 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a programme of school building projects. The project is currently at Stage 2b (planning) of the architectural process. A planning application was lodged with Wicklow County Council and planning permission was granted in Quarter 4 2022. The Department will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The permanent building project referred to be the Deputy, will deliver a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school and accommodation, including 4 classrooms, for children with special educational needs. The project is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build programme and is currently at tender stage. The Invitation to Tender for the project issued in April 2023, as part of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Feb 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 (29 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Since 2020, my Department has invested in the region of €4.3 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 800 school building projects with construction currently underway at approximately 300 other projects, which includes 33 new school buildings. These 300 projects currently at construction involve a total State investment of over €1.2bn....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Regional Education and Language Teams, or REALTs, were established as part of the Department of Education’s response to the humanitarian crisis arising from the war in Ukraine. REALTs assist Ukrainian families in securing school places. Families who have recently moved into the accommodation referred to by the Deputy are currently being assisted by the REALT coordinator to locate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school authority 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2022/2023 school year, over 149,000 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Feb 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: Schools Building Projects (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that 1,228 applications for additional school accommodation have been received by my Department since 2021. Consolidated data in respect of earlier applications is not readily available, however lists of projects completed since 2010, all current large scale building projects and all current Additional School Accommodation scheme projects are available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Liúntais do Mhúinteoirí (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Tá an t-eolas atá á lorg ón Teachta leagtha amach sa ráiteas táblach a ghabhann leis seo. Tábla 1 - Liúntas Teagasc trí Ghaeilge Bliain Líon múinteoirí bunscoile ag fáil Liúntas Teagasc trí Ghaeilge Líon múinteoirí iar-bhunscoile ag fáil Liúntas Teagasc trí...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The Special Education Teaching allocation provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile and also encompasses the Language Support allocation that schools were allocated in previous years. Under this SET model, schools are frontloaded with resources to provide support immediately to those...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Please find attached requested data which is for academic year 2022–23, the latest year we have final data available. Data is taken from the Primary Online Database (POD), for those pupils enrolled as per the census date of 30th September 2022. As per data provided, 261 pupils, enrolled in Irish medium schools located in the Gaeltacht have indicated on POD that their mother tongue...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Budget 2024 has provided for an unprecedented €10.5 billion investment in education, which includes an increase of €421 million in core current funding, as well as over €80 million in core capital funding. An additional €170 million is also being provided as part of Cost of Living and COVID-19 supports. These additional funds build on significant increases in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The project referred to by the Deputy has been devolved for delivery to Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB). The project is at Stage 2b of the architectural planning process. The Stage 2b report was submitted to the Department by the design team and is currently under review by the Department. Following this review and once approval of this report is sanctioned, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I can inform the Deputy that the Education Research Centre (ERC) develops Irish standardised testing on behalf of the Department. The ERC have estimated that the cost of developing the standardised tests would cost and estimated €1.85m. It would involve the recruitment of new staff and the tests would take a number of years to be completed. There are addition annual costs for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The assessment of skills in spoken Irish forms an integral component of the overall language learning experience at Junior Cycle and occurs in a number of ways. Students' oral language skills are formally assessed through Classroom-Based Assessments (CBAs), the second of which is entirely based on students’ oral language competence. The CBA is linked to ongoing classroom exchanges and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has advised that it allocates grant funding to public higher education institutions under the authority of the Higher Education Authority (HEA) from the Exchequer and the National Training Fund (NTF) in respect of their current expenditure. In 2024 the allocation, as per the 2024 Revised Estimates, is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (28 Feb 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: State Examinations (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Eligibility for entry to the State Examinations is included in the Rules & Programme for Secondary Schools. A candidate who is not a recognised pupil of a post primary school but who is attending an approved course of study outside the state or who is attending a course of study organised under the Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme, the Adult Literacy and Community Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The role of the school is to provide an appropriate education for all its students. A stable, secure learning environment and a diverse range of programme options are an essential requirement to achieve this goal. Schools have autonomy in choosing the resources and programmes that best support their work within their own school and their broader school community. There are a number of...