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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 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. Budget 2024 contains a range of measures that demonstrate my commitment to continued investment in our education system. In addition to numerous actions I have taken in recent years to address...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary and special schools. The NEPS service provides access for all schools to:Psychological support in the event of a Critical IncidentA Casework Service for individual children where there is a need for intensive consultation and assessment via a NEPS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the decision making authority for a change of status to coeducation is the patron/trustees of the schools, subject to the approval of the Department. Local consultation regarding potential change of status to coeducation is encouraged by the Department but it is the responsibility of the patrons to undertake any consultation that they deem appropriate and to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (16 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: Educational Disadvantage (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a wide range of supports to all schools, DEIS and non-DEIS, to support the inclusion of all students and address barriers to students achieving their potential. Supplementing the universal supports available to all schools, the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy initiative of my Department to address concentrated...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 Staff (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of surplus permanent teachers to other schools where vacancies exist. Ensuring efficiency in the annual redeployment processes is significant in terms of managing the overall teacher numbers.At Post-Primary level, following discussions between the relevant stakeholders a voluntary redeployment scheme has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scéimeanna Fostaíochta (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 147 and 149 together. Tá an Roinn seo tiomanta do chistiú a sholáthar do bhunscoileanna aitheanta agus iar-bhunscoileanna aitheanta sa scéim saoroideachais trí dheontais per capita. Is iad an dá phríomhdheontas ná an deontas Caipitíochta, a sholáthraítear chun freastal ar ghnáthchostais reatha...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oibreacha Feabhsúcháin do Scoileanna (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: Tuigeann an Roinn an tábhacht a bhaineann leis an Deontas Mionoibreacha do bhunscoileanna. Cuireann an maoiniú solúbthacht mhaith ar fáil ag an leibhéal áitiúil chun cabhrú le scoileanna oibreacha a thacaíonn le feidhmiú na scoile a bhainistiú agus a chur i gcrích. Íocadh an Deontas Mionoibreacha do bhunscoileanna don`...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Paindéim (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: Tá breis is €400.7 milliún de mhaoiniú breise deontais Caipitíochta Covid-19 curtha ar fáil go dtí seo do bhunscoileanna agus iar-bhunscoileanna aitheanta d’fhonn soláthar a dhéanamh do chur i bhfeidhm bearta um chosc agus rialú ionfhabhtuithe chun baol leathadh Covid-19 a laghdú. Ina theannta sin, eisíodh maoiniú...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pleananna Oideachais (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: Tá an Roinn seo tiomanta do chistiú a sholáthar do bhunscoileanna aitheanta agus iar-bhunscoileanna aitheanta sa scéim saoroideachais trí dheontais per capita. Is iad an dá phríomhdheontas ná an deontas Caipitíochta, a sholáthraítear chun freastal ar ghnáthchostais reatha laethúla, amhail téamh, soilsiú,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scéimeanna Rannacha (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: Tá an Roinn seo tiomanta do chistiú a sholáthar do bhunscoileanna aitheanta agus iar-bhunscoileanna aitheanta sa scéim saoroideachais trí dheontais per capita. Is iad an dá phríomhdheontas ná an deontas Caipitíochta, a sholáthraítear chun freastal ar ghnáthchostais reatha laethúla, amhail téamh, soilsiú,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 153 and 154 together. My Department provides a wide range of supports to all schools, DEIS and non-DEIS, to support the inclusion of all students and address barriers to students achieving their potential. Supplementing the universal supports available to all schools, the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (15 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 69, 70, 72 and 73 together. I wish to clarify for the Deputy that the application by the school in question for a change of status to co-educational has not been refused. My Department continues to work with the school's patron to support a move towards co-educational provision at the school. In the context of the current post-primary provision in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (15 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 71, 79 and 80 together. 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 amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). In that regard there are more than 3,700 individual employers (boards of management of primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers, was approved funding under my Department's Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) scheme for the provision of 9 mainstream classrooms, 2 science laboratories and 1 prep area and 1 art and crafts room. The approved brief was subsequently increased to provide a total of 11 mainstream classrooms, 2 science laboratories and 1 prep area, 1 art room, 1...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (15 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary and special schools. The NEPS service provides access for all schools to:Psychological support in the event of a Critical IncidentA Casework Service for individual children where there is a need for intensive consultation and assessment via a NEPS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 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 Accommodation (15 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has recently received an application for additional school accommodation (ASA) from the school authority in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the...