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

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may 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: School Accommodation (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 Facilities (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: School Accommodation (12 Dec 2023)

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 Accommodation (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,...

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

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, 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 onwards to...

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

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. As the Deputy may be aware, for school planning purposes, the Department of Education divides the country into 314 school planning areas...

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

Norma Foley: The Deputy will be aware that a building project for the school in question is included on the Department's Capital Program to be delivered as part of the National Development Plan (NDP). School building projects at construction involve an overall State investment of over €1.2 billion. There are also 200 modular accommodation projects that are very well advanced for delivery or at...

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

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 Accommodation (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 brief for the project is comprised of two science laboratories with a shared preparation area, five mainstream classrooms and a four class Special Education Needs (SEN) base and ancillary accommodation. The project was devolved for delivery to the...

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

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 Accommodation (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department and Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education Training Board (DDLETB) agreed in early 2021 to increase the capacity of the school in question to 1,500 places. There was no timeframe determined for this increase but it was expected that there would be a gradual increase in enrolments over a number of years. In order to facilitate an initial...

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

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has agreed the need for additional accommodation at the school in question. The school's accommodation will be delivered in two phases. Phase one will see the delivery of accommodation to meet the school’s most immediate needs through the department's modular accommodation framework and will consist of reconfiguration of two science...

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

Norma Foley: My Department has very recently received an application from the school to which the Deputy refers, for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS). This application is currently being assessed by the Department's emergency works team, the school will be kept informed throughout the process.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Priorities (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 for my Department in 2024, will provide a road map to the delivery of the strategic and operational priorities set out in my Department’s Statement of Strategy 2023-2025. The priorities...

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: Schools Building Projects (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 two mainstream classrooms, and a three classroom SEN base. The project is currently at stage 2b (pre planning stage). My Department is awaiting...

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

Norma Foley: My Department is not in a position to assist with the provision of individual boarding grants for students. However, Tusla Education Support Service can provide support to parents to apply for home tuition if their child is without a school placement. My Department published Circulars 0024/2023 and 0031/2023 on gov.ie - Home Tuition (www.gov.ie) detailing the Home Tuition provisions for...

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...

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

Norma Foley: The Irish constitution acknowledges the role of a parent or guardian as the primary educator of their child and has enshrined in law that a parent or guardian may home educate their child or may choose to send their child to a school which is not a recognised school in accordance with section 10 of the Education Act, 1998. While the State cannot oblige parents or guardians to send their...