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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Lottery (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has not been able to find any records for the mentioned application or approval of funding to the company specified in his question.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, my Department has received an initial design (Stage 1) report and this report is currently being reviewed by my Department's professional and technical officials. This review is nearing completion and my Department will confirm the outcome of the review to the school authority shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: It is the Section 29 appeals process to which the correspondence relates. Section 29 of the Education Act 1998 as inserted by Section 7 of the Education (Admissions to schools) Act 2018 provides for an appeal, where a board of management, or a person acting on behalf of the board of management (normally the school principal) refuses to admit a student to a school, suspends a student for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: Earlier this year the Department received a report from a Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) working group. The report proposed the creation of a national relocation scheme whereby teachers would identify the locations that they would like to relocate to through a portal and then effectively “swap” with teachers in that location. The proposal included findings from a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy was delivered under my Department's Design and Build Programme and provides a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school with accommodation, including 7 classrooms, for children with special educational needs. The Letter of Acceptance (LOA) for the building project issued to the preferred tenderer on the 31st May 2022 commencing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day to day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day to day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department aims to deliver high quality and inclusive education for all children and young people that addresses their needs, interests and ambitions. Forbairt, the Annual Statement of Priorities 2023, provides a roadmap to the delivery of the strategic and operational priorities set out in my Department’s Statement of Strategy 2023-2025. My Department’s main policy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: Currently, there are 66 teaching positions allocated across 19 supply clusters in Co. Cork. This is an increase on 2020, when there were 29 positions across 11 clusters.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (12 Dec 2023)

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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) advises the Minister for Education on matters relating to curriculum and assessment across early childhood, primary and post-primary education. In February 2020, following processes of review, research and work with schools, the NCCA published the DraftPrimary Curriculum Frameworkfor consultation. The aim of the consultation was to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved a school building project under my Department's Additional School Accommodation scheme. The project was devolved for delivery to the school authority. The brief for the project is comprised of a special class and a Special Education Teacher room. The school authority appointed a consultant to manage the delivery of the project. Following...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, a project is currently in train to deliver modular accommodation for the school in question. This project will deliver an additional mainstream classroom and two Special Education Tuition rooms for the school. School building projects at construction involve an overall State investment of over €1.2 billion. We also have 200 modular accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Dec 2023)

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 provided...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 320 and 321 together. The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2022/23 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....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I was delighted to launch together with the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, Ossian Smyth the Solar for Schools scheme . It will allow up to 4,000 schools nationwide to get solar PV panels to reduce their energy bills and their carbon emissions. This ties in with the strong ethos of environmental awareness and climate sustainability...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: By way of information for the Deputy the number of properties owned by my Department is very small. A large majority of schools are patron-owned with only approximately 9% of schools in Ministerial ownership nationwide. Currently there are seven properties/sites for which there are no immediate building projects planned or in train. One of the sites was purchased to facilitate a sports hall....