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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Ensuring that every child's experience in school is positive and that they have qualified, engaged teachers available to support them in their learning is a priority area of action for the Government. Budget 2024 contained a range of measures that demonstrate my commitment to continued investment in our education system.A professional masters’ of education incentive scheme will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The school project to which the Deputy refers is devolved for delivery to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) as part of a bundled school building programme. This project is progressing through the various stages in line with necessary governance and compliance. The project is currently at Stage 1 of the architectural design process. The procurement process to appoint the design...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, in order to plan for school place needs, 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....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to the Board of Management of the school. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that this project was recently approved by my Department to proceed to Stage 2a of the architectural planning process (detailed design). Once the Stage 2a submission is approved by my Department, the next step for the Design Team will be to obtain...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school place needs, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, In order to plan for school place needs, 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....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the building project for the school to which he refers has now been devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). The Service Level Agreement (SLA) has been issued to KWETB. The next step is for the ETB to procure a Design Team for the project to design the buildings, obtain the necessary statutory planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (8 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: Tá na sraitheanna pictiúr mar chomhpháirt den Bhéaltriail Ghaeilge d’iarrthóirí Ardleibhéil agus Gnáthleibhéil, agus 40% de na marcanna iomlána don Ghaeilge san Ardteistiméireacht ag dul don Bhéaltriail. Mar fhreagra ar cheisteanna a d’ardaigh an CNCM agus COGG faoin sraith pictiúr agus faoi ghnéithe...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: The criteria for the award of incremental credit are set out in the Department’s Circulars 10/2001 for Primary teachers, 29/2007 and 29/2010 for Post-Primary teachers. The criteria for the award of incremental credit to recognised teachers was agreed under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council (TCC). To qualify for an award of incremental credit, a teacher and their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 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: School Funding (8 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As part of the Schools Photovoltaic Programme, which rolled out to over 1,600 schools last November, installations will be for a maximum of 6 kWp (approximately 16 solar panels) in size and will be fully funded by the Government’s Climate Action Fund. Schools in the following areas were invited to participate in the first phase: Co. Clare, Co. Donegal, Dublin City Council area,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, for school planning purposes, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (or GIS) 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. In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, my Department is aware of pressures for school places for the 2024/25 school year in North Kildare. A critical next step for my Department is to establish the actual number of additional first year places required for 2024 in order for an appropriate solution to be put in place. In that context, schools in a number of areas of enrolment pressure, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department is undertaking a comprehensive programme to support the supply of teachers. For example, to meet longer-term teacher demand, higher education institutions have developed new 4 year initial teacher education programmes in a number of post-primary priority subject areas, including Home Economics. There are currently a number of providers of home economics Initial Teacher...

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

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy has a building project which is included on the Department's Capital Programme to be delivered as part of the National Development Plan (NDP). My Department has received a proposal from the patron regarding their long term accommodation needs. This proposal is currently being examined and my Department is in ongoing discussions with the patron in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (7 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. My Department is aware of pressures for school places for the 2024/25 school year in Naas. A critical next step for my Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 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 (7 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. 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 enrolled each year and where the need cannot be met...

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

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was granted approval under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme for 11 general classrooms, 3 SET rooms, 1 multimedia room, 1 textiles room, 1 science lab/prep area, and a 2 classroom SEN base. An additional SEN base was also subsequently approved. The project is devolved for delivery to Mayo Sligo and Leitrim ETB (MSLETB). My...

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

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Kildare & Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). It is currently at Stage 2b of the process, which allows for detailed design/planning, obtaining the necessary statutory permissions and the preparation of tender documents. When this stage is finalised, the next stage is tendering for a contractor and then...