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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme from the school in question for special class accommodation to replace prefabricated classroom. The purpose of the Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 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: Information and Communications Technology (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 was published last year and is underpinned by an investment of €200m to support its implementation, committed to under Ireland’s National Development Plan (NDP). The first tranche of €50m issued to all recognised primary and post-primary schools in late 2021. The previous Digital Strategy for Schools 2015 to 2020 saw overall...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: As Minister for Education, I believe it is crucially important that children and young people are actively supported to access education in its fullest forms. This Government recognises that the cost of preparing children for school each September can be a cause of financial difficulty and worry for many Irish families. As part of Budget 2023, I announced a major investment of over €50...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 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: School Funding (17 Oct 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 these universal supports, the DEIS programme provides a targeted and equitable way to address concentrated educational disadvantage that promotes equity and has benefits for students. As part...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers to was approved funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for the provision of 2 mainstream classrooms and 1 SET room. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that upon review by officials at my Department, the project was approved to construction in October 2023 and the school has been informed accordingly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers, was granted funding under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to provide 1 mainstream classroom and 2 special education needs base rooms. The project was devolved for delivery to the school authority. Approval was given to the school to carry out a flood risk assessment and a report will be submitted to my Department once...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 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 (17 Oct 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: School Facilities (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: An official from my Department's Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) Section has been in contact with the principal of the school in question in respect of this issue and has advised that following a review of the EWS application in question, the decision has been taken that the application does not qualify under the EWS criteria as outlined below. However given the nature of the incident...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 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: School Funding (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: It was agreed with Lucan ETNS that the issue of the community contribution could be addressed after the New School Lease (NSL) between the Minister and the Patron for the school property was implemented. The CSSO is currently liaising with the Patron’s solicitor with respect to the NSL and a response from the Patron's solicitor on same is expected.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: As outlined in my Department's Governance Manual for Board of Management of Primary Schools, Boards of Management are obliged to take out public liability insurance, contents insurance and employers’ liability insurance. As this school is on Minister owned land it is not obliged to take out buildings insurance. However the school is required to take out public liability, contents and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The Professional Master of Education (PME) is a two-year, full-time Level 9 postgraduate professional teacher education programme designed to qualify graduates as primary & post-primary teachers. Changes to the duration and content of initial teacher education programmes were made in response to recommendations in the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 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: School Accommodation (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department’s approach is to support school authorities deal with pyrite through an appropriate remediation programme based on advices provided by Consultant Engineers which are assessed and reviewed by my Department’s Professional and Technical Team. The standard approach is to factor pyrite remediation in to a building project that is already planned or underway for a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: Under the terms of the contract, the Contractor has a period of 12 months after the date of substantial completion to rectify any snags or defects that are identified i.e. Defects Liability Period (DLP). If at the end of the 12 month period all snags or defects are not rectified, the Contract offers other remedies to have matters resolved. In relation to a project where the client is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a programme of school building projects. This school project is part of the bundle known as ‘Project Nore’. The brief for this project is to provide a new 14 classroom special school. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the tender process for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year, over 149,000 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services are being...