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

Norma Foley: My Department has committed considerable resources towards the restoration of guidance counselling hours to post-primary schools, to the provision of CPD for guidance counsellors and to the provision of a national guidance counselling supervision service for post-primary guidance counsellors in recent times. The guidance allocation is provided separately and transparently on each school's...

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

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was to support schools in carrying out projects to stimulate an increased interest in STEM and included an application process as with other STEM initiatives in the past such as the STEM clusters...

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

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was to support schools in carrying out projects to stimulate an increased interest in STEM and included an application process as with other STEM initiatives in the past such as the STEM clusters...

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

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was to support schools in carrying out projects to stimulate an increased interest in STEM and included an application process as with other STEM initiatives in the past such as the STEM clusters...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The school mentioned is part of my Department's construction programme. It was originally planned to be delivered under the Design and Build programme and was progressed to planning permission stage. 8 Design and Build (D and B) projects (Lots 1 and 2) went to construction in 2021, with a further 10 projects (Lots 3, 4 and 5) progressed to construction in Summer 2022. A further 10...

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

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was to support schools in carrying out projects to stimulate an increased interest in STEM and included an application process as with other STEM initiatives in the past such as the STEM clusters...

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

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the grant scheme was open to any recognised primary, post-primary or special school within the free education scheme which included DEIS and non-DEIS schools. I can further advise that a total of 530 schools received grants and of those 146 were DEIS schools. When the grant scheme was announced the Department indicated that it had funding of €1.5m...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school in question is not on the Department's Capital Building Programme. The main focus of the department’s resources over the last decade and for the coming period is on provision of critical additional capacity to cater for increasing demographics . Under Project Ireland 2040 the education sector will receive a total of approximately...

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

Norma Foley: The new set of enrolments in primary and post-primary schools projections is planned to be published by end of January 2024. The publication date is not available yet. The new report (and others in the series) may be accessed at: www.gov.ie/en/collection/projections/.

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

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was to support schools in carrying out projects to stimulate an increased interest in STEM and included an application process as with other STEM initiatives in the past such as the STEM clusters...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The person named submitted an application for an award of incremental credit with respect to relevant non-teaching service. The application for an award of incremental credit was not successful. Following notification that the application was not successful, the person named appealed this decision. This appeal is currently under examination by an independent Primary Incremental Credit...

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

Norma Foley: Please find attached requested data. Please note data is for academic year 2022-2023, the last year we have final data for and is based on enrolments in mainstream primary schools as per mainstream school list which can be found at the link below; www.gov.ie/en/collection/primary-schools/#20232024. Mainstream School Size 2022-2023 School Enrolment Size Number of Schools ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Building Energy Rating (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The information requested by the deputy is not currently to hand, it is being collated at the moment and will be conveyed to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

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

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant scheme was an action in the new STEM Education Implementation Plan published in 2023. The grant was to support schools in carrying out projects to stimulate an increased interest in STEM and included an application process as with other STEM initiatives in the past such as the STEM clusters...

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

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 was published last year and is underpinned by an investment of €200m to support its implementation, committed to under Ireland’s National Development Plan (NDP). The first tranche of €50m issued to all recognised primary and post-primary schools in late 2021. The previous Digital Strategy for Schools 2015 to 2020 saw overall...

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

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 was published last year and is underpinned by an investment of €200m to support its implementation, committed to under Ireland’s National Development Plan (NDP). The first tranche of €50m issued to all recognised primary and post-primary schools in late 2021. The previous Digital Strategy for Schools 2015 to 2020 saw overall...

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

Norma Foley: In response to the Deputy's query please see below details of funding provided to schools in County Meath by My Department under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS), and the Additional Accommodation Scheme (ASA) for the period of 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023, in tabular form: 2022 2023 EWS €676,639.75 €664,007.48 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department recognises the importance of the Minor Works Grant to primary schools. The funding provides good flexibility at local level to assist schools to manage and undertake works that support the operation of the school. Schools have the autonomy to use this funding for maintenance and small-scale improvements to school buildings and grounds. Given that each school setting is...

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

Norma Foley: The Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) scheme is one of the key supports provided by my Department as part of the overall DEIS programme. Tusla Education Support Service manage the HSCL scheme on behalf of my Department. The scheme seeks to promote partnership between parents, teachers and community family support services, with a view to supporting improved attendance, participation and...