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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (23 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The Governing Authority in question was established under the Education and Training Board Act 2013 with the consent of the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that requirements for school places is kept under on-going review in the context of available information on population, enrolments and residential development activity. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. Major new residential developments in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 Nov 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: Schools Building Projects (22 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the building project referred to has been devolved for delivery to Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB). The Design Team is currently progressing through Stage 1 of the architectural planning process, which involves developing options for both school buildings. DETB will submit a Stage 1 report to the Department once all viable options for the site have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Nov 2023)

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. The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for individual school authorities, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question regarding provision of an ASD Unit. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has a statutory function to plan and co-ordinate the provision of education and support services to children with special educational needs, in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Nov 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: Education Policy (22 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: Schools have a role to play in supporting their students to develop the key skills and knowledge to enable them to make informed choices when faced with a range of difficult issues, including drugs, alcohol and gambling. This is mainly done through the SPHE programme. SPHE forms part of the mandatory Wellbeing area of learning at Junior Cycle. Wellbeing in Junior Cycle is about young people...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: As has been previously advised, the school to which you refer applied for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) to carry out roof works to the school building. The works were deemed to be extensive and outside the scope of the emergency works scheme and the application was refused in that context. However to assist the school address the problems in the interim the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to confirm to the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application from the school in question under the Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme. The purpose of my Department’s ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for pupils enrolled...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: There are 358 schools with enrolments in excess of 575 pupils. The estimated cost of awarding an additional guidance post to these schools is €20 million per annum.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Nov 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 Facilities (21 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy will be delivered under the Departments ADAPT Programme. The ADAPT Programme uses a professional external Project Manager to co-ordinate and drive the Design Team to achieve the best possible timeframe for the project through the stages of Architectural Planning to Tender and Construction. The project is at the initial...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (21 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers, has been devolved for delivery to Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB). The project is currently at Stage 2A of the architectural design process. GRETB have advised that they expect to be in a position to submit the Stage 2A Report to the Department for review in Quarter 1, 2024. Following the Stage 2A meeting and approval of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers, has been devolved for delivery to National Development Finance Agency (NDFA). This project is currently at Stage 2A (detailed design) of the architectural planning process. Once the stage report submission is received, reviewed and approved, the next step for the design team will be to obtain the statutory planning approvals. When these are in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (21 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers, has been devolved for delivery to Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB). The project is currently at Stage 2B of the architectural design process, and the ETB expect to lodge the planning application shortly. Once all of the requisite statutory planning approvals have been obtained, the ETB will prepare the Stage 2B report to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (21 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The large scale capital project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at Architectural Planning Stage 4 - Construction. The Project commenced on site in May 2023 with a contract duration of 18 months, subject to no issues arising, the expected completion date is Q4 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Nov 2023)

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. The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is primarily a matter for individual school authorities, of which there are over 3,700 individual employers (boards of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (21 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: Dear Deputy, It is great to see the school to which you refer has such interest in climate action. Budget 2023 provided for the provision of funding from the Climate Action Fund (CAF), which is under the remit of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, in relation to the provision of Photovoltaic Panels in schools up to 6KW output. This is really positive news for our...