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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: This is inspected by the inspectorate. All inspections of a school are published. They are available for perusal by anyone who wishes to do so. That is important and it speaks to the breadth of work that happens in schools every day and the excellence, determination and focus by staff in schools preparing students for the next chapters in their lives. It also speaks to the transparency...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (28 May 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (28 May 2024)

Questions Nos. 5 and 6 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Schools Building Projects

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will have a plan for a new school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23898/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This question is about Castlebar Educate Together School. The school operates over three campuses and has 150 pupils. The Minister will be familiar with the school because she visited it in September 2022. She promised them at the time a new school but nothing has been delivered since. She asked them to submit possible locations and sites and they did that immediately but they cannot get...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Castlebar Educate Together National School was established as a four-class school under the terms of a divestment process in September 2016. I am very pleased to confirm that a capital project to provide a new permanent eight-classroom school building for the school is included in the Department of Education's school building programme pipeline. This capital project is at site acquisition...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Part of the problem is the pipeline and how long the pipeline is. Since the possible sites were submitted to the Minister, nothing seems to have happened from the school end. Some of the children are in Marsh House, some are in Cavendish Lane and some are near the hat factory. The Minister may have heard Sarah Calvey, the principal, and Sarah Scott, one of the pupils, on "Morning Ireland"...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department has not been found wanting in making the additional facilities available. At the time of the establishment in 2016, the school was designated as a four-classroom school with the agreement of the patron. That is what the patron agreed to, and it was agreed with the patron that enrolments would be managed within the available accommodation. It was agreed the school would grow...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for that. We are very keen to get a timeline on this, as she can see, in order that we can reassure the parents and the teachers as well as the children, who asked me about this at a meeting recently. One parent I spoke to has a child with special needs and she just cannot understand why the sibling cannot be on the same side as her. I ask that this be expedited as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I absolutely agree with the Deputy. There is excellent work happening in the school every single day. The Department has not been found wanting when it comes to resourcing Mayo. More than €111 million between 2020 and 2024 has been expended on buildings in the Mayo school area. That is 46 school building projects. There are 11 additional accommodation and large-scale projects...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

School Enrolments

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she remains confident she and her Department will be in a position to meet the full requirement of school places at primary and second level throughout Kildare North and the rest of the country on time for September 2024 enrolment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23853/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain from the Minister the extent to which she remains satisfied she can accommodate primary and secondary level schoolchildren throughout County Kildare and throughout the country in time for the enrolment next September. This is a very important time for children, and the indecision or doubt we had last September would not be a help if it were to reoccur.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post-primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs, is a priority for the Department. At a national level, Ireland has been experiencing growth in overall post-primary enrolments, and this is projected to continue in many parts of the country for the coming years...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I hear exactly what the Deputy is saying and I hear from across the country that parents feel anxious and frustrated. What we are doing, and what I am doing in my role as Minister of State with responsibility for special education, is increasing the number of SENOs on the ground, whose role it will be to be visible and active, and engaging and working with parents and schools to help them to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The parents I speak to are well used to having to battle the State and having to fight for every service their child has ever received. By the time they get to a SENO, they have already tried everything that is going to be recommended by that SENO. I agree with the Minister of State about regionalisation. My constituency in the midlands was in the same area as Donegal, and Lord help the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: It is for that reason we are investing €2.7 billion in special education, a third of the overall Department of Education funding. A lot of very good work is happening across the country. We want to improve and increase the resources of the NCSE, which is happening on a weekly basis. It will have those 120 SENOs on the ground and visible from this September. They are already on the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Teaching Qualifications (28 May 2024)

Teaching Qualifications

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Teaching Qualifications (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an alternative for teachers who completed their teaching qualifications in England to complete their induction period in Ireland, as was done under the Covid-19 amendment regulation. [23805/24]