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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The correspondence has been received and department officials will be arranging to attend a meeting on my behalf in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department is dedicated to enhancing the delivery and development of youth work services and opportunities for young people across the country. The UBU Your Place Your Space (UBU) scheme is a youth funding scheme that targets disadvantaged young people aged between 10 to 24 years who are identified as marginalised, vulnerable and at risk of not flourishing. The UBU scheme currently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department is dedicated to enhancing the delivery and development of youth work services and opportunities for young people across the country, including County Laois. In 2025, €138,580 was allocated to Laois Offaly Education and Training Board (ETB) under the ETB Youth Service Grant, to support the ETB in carrying out its functions relating to the administration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of school buildings to provide 3 Mainstream Classrooms, 3 Resource Rooms & 1 Home School Liaison Room and 2 Class SEN Base. I can confirm that this project received the Departments approval to go to construction in November 2024. The project has commenced on site and is progressing well. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The Teaching Council registers teachers under the and in line with the . There are five routes of registration, the minimum registration requirements for each route are set out in the Schedule of the Regulations. Under the Teaching Council...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The primary school staffing arrangements for the 2025/26 school year are set out in Circular 0011/2025. These arrangements contain an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The Teaching Council registers teachers under the and in line with the . There are five routes of registration, the minimum registration requirements for each route are set out in the Schedule of the Regulations. Under the Teaching Council...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council register teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the . As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The qualification requirements for each route are set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 777 and 962 together. Recognising the vitally important role of secretaries and caretakers within school communities, my officials have been working intensively with stakeholders and with the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to establish a platform for meaningful discussion and resolution. On Friday 5th September, following constructive engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commissions of Investigation (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Commission of Investigation has been established to investigate the handling of historical child sexual abuse in schools. This was recommended by the Scoping Inquiry whose remit was to consider the issue of historical sexual abuse, as distinct from physical abuse which is a separate issue. The Scoping Inquiry's report was published in September 2024. It reported that there were 2,395...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: Responsibility for the administration of the School Completion Programme (SCP), transferred back from the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to my Department on 1 January 2021. The SCP is a key component of my department’s Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) programme, which is the key policy initiative to address concentrated...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: Recognising the vitally important role of secretaries and caretakers within school communities, my officials have been working intensively with stakeholders and with the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to establish a platform for meaningful discussion and resolution. On Friday 5th September, following constructive engagement under the auspices of the WRC, the parties have agreed to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: Leave entitlements for public servants, including teachers, are determined by the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. Under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998, the Minister for Education, with the concurrence of the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, is authorised to determine the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 782 and 783 together. I know that teachers experience challenges that were not so acute for previous generations, including casualisation within the teaching profession. That is why I have announced that to help teachers gain permanent roles more quickly, new agreements are being developed which will see teachers who have taught for one year and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 784 and 809 together. The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm that my Department currently does not have an Additional School Accommodation application (ASA) on hand for the school referred to by the deputy. It would be a matter for the patron of the school to acquire additional land if required for expansion or additional parking for this school.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authority, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24(3) of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). In accordance with Department Circular 31/2011 (), which is available on the Department’s website under gov.ie - Department of Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: After-School Support Services (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. The Department of Education and Youth acknowledges the increasing demand for after-school places and the essential role these services play in supporting children and families. While the direct provision of after-school care is not within the department’s remit, we work closely with the Department of Children, Disability and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: Schools admissions policies, including the selection criterion to be used where the school is oversubscribed, must comply with the 2018 Act, be non-discriminatory and be applied fairly in respect of all applicants. A school must accept all applicants unless oversubscribed. All schools must clearly set out their selection criteria in their admission policies. Schools have discretion in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 Sep 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The...