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

Norma Foley: For school planning purposes, my 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 and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 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: School Accommodation (20 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school referred to have been approved funding under my departments Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for 2 mainstream classrooms, 4 special education tuition rooms and conversion works for 2 special education classrooms. I can confirm that an initial preliminary design for this project was submitted to my Department by the school’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 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 Education and Skills: School Enrolments (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that 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 the Department. Under Project Ireland 2040, my Department is investing over €5 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 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 (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: 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 the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year and where the need cannot be met by the school’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Minister Norma Foley and Minister of State Ossian Smyth launched the first phase of the Schools PV Programme in November 2023. The programme will provide eligible schools with 6 kilowatts of roof-mounted solar PV, which equates to approximately 16 solar panels and includes connection to the grid and a monitoring system and display screen. The Schools PV Programme is a devolved programme based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Minister Norma Foley and Minister of State Ossian Smyth launched the first phase of the Schools PV Programme in November 2023. The programme will provide eligible schools with 6 kilowatts of roof-mounted solar PV, which equates to approximately 16 solar panels and includes connection to the grid and a monitoring system and display screen. The Schools PV Programme is a devolved programme based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 196 and 197 together. Under the Constitution, the provisions of article 44 recognise the rights of children to attend school without attending religious instruction at that school. Furthermore the provisions of Section 30(2) (e) of the Education Act 1998 provide that a school shall not require a student to attend instruction in any subject which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: In accordance with the Education Act 1998, schools are managed by Boards of Management on behalf of the relevant school patrons. Under the provisions of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, all schools have admissions policies, which have been approved by the patron, following consultation with staff and parents of children who are attending the school. All schools must publish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers includes an extension to the existing school buildings. The project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority and it has appointed a design team to progress the project. The tender report has been received by my Department and is currently under review from both a technical and cost perspective. The review is nearing completion and my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 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: School Transport (15 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: School Facilities (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The purpose of my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year and where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation or by available accommodation at other schools in the area. I can confirm to the Deputy that my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Investment and expenditure on Sports Gyms is an element of the overall School Building Programme. The provision of GP rooms and PE Halls/Sports Gyms, at primary and post primary level respectively, and outdoor hard play areas, form part of the accommodation brief for all new school buildings. Almost 95% of the post primary schools that made 2020 Annual Schools Returns have indicated to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The Deputy's Question does not relate to a school but to a boarding facility attached to a school. The management of the boarding facility does not fall under the responsibility of my Department. Therefore, my Department does not have the power to instruct it to follow a particular course of direction with regard to individual parents.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Information on the number of students from Ukraine enrolled in Irish schools is made available in a monthly press release from my Department, which includes the figures at both primary and post-primary level. As of 1st February 2024, 18,155 Ukrainian pupils are enrolled in Irish schools. Out of that figure, 11,288 of these pupils had enrolled in primary schools, while 6,867 pupils had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (15 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The School to which the deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) in January 2023. This application was made under Category 10 which pertains to external environment works and covered a number of measures including some security measures. The EWS operates on the basis of a minimal scope of works and some of the works being sought under the...