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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Oct 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: Schools Building Projects (10 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy will deliver a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school and accommodation, including four classrooms, for children with special educational needs. This project is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme and is currently at tender stage. The Invitation to Tender issued on the 18thApril 2023, as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: A list of properties owned by me as Minister for Education located in County Clare is set out below. The listed properties include properties where the control and management of the property has been transferred to a school patron who operates the school in the property. All of the properties are being used for educational purposes: Roll Number Name Address ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: 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 staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria. The final meeting of the Primary Staffing Appeals Board, for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (10 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that requirements for additional 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 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 Staff (10 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to outline to the Deputy details of the procedures to process applications for teachers and school staff appointments at the start of each new school year, and the commitment of staff of my Department to efficiently process these applications. Early in the New Year, each school is advised by my Department of their teaching allocations for the forthcoming school year. It is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, Budget 2023 provided for the provision of funding from the Climate Action Fund in relation to the provision of Photovoltaic Panels in schools up to 6KW output. This is positive news for our schools and will assist with their energy needs and costs along with supporting the decarbonisation of our school buildings. My officials are working closely with colleagues in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 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 Admissions (5 Oct 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, Project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to all recognised schools in the Free Education Scheme by way of per capita grants. These grants are based on recognised enrolments in September of the relevant school year. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day to day running costs including heating, lighting etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the school referred to was approved funding under My Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for 1 mainstream classroom and 1 SEN base, with delivery of the project devolved to the school authority. A design team was appointed and the project was approved to progress to planning. Subsequently, the school requested an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that there is an application for additional school accommodation (ASA) from the school 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 school’s existing accommodation. At primary level, this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 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 Curriculum (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department works together with the Department of Health and other agencies to support students in the area of health promotion. My Department acknowledges the commitment of schools in promoting healthy lifestyle choices for students in a number of ways - through the curriculum, for example Home Economics, Physical Education and Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE); through school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mother and Baby Homes (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, last June Government approved proposals for the delivery of a package of ongoing supports and services for survivors of abuse in residential institutions, relating to health, education, advocacy and trauma-informed practice. This package of supports was developed following consideration of the final report of the survivor-led Consultative Forum, along with other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department approved funding for the school referred to under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme for 1 x Mainstream Classroom and 1 x Special Education Needs base. The delivery of the project was devolved to the School Authority who appointed a design team to progress the project. My Department approved the design report submitted by the Design Team to progress to Planning. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department approved funding for the school referred to under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme for 1 x Mainstream Classroom and 1 x Special Education Needs base. The delivery of the project was devolved to the School Authority who appointed a design team to progress the project. My Department approved the design report submitted by the Design Team to progress to Planning. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: Modular accommodation is a feature of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) which describes a range of manufacturing and innovative alternatives to traditional construction. There are many benefits of adopting MMC in the school sector ranging from faster delivery of construction projects to minimising disruption in live school environments. My Department has established a Modular Framework of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: As the information requested by the Deputy is not readily available, my Department will arrange for this information to be sent directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.