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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (25 May 2023)

Norma Foley: Education Support Centres are independent statutory bodies recognised under Section 37 of the Education Act (1998). Each Education Support Centre is responsible for preparing annual audited financial statements and submitting these to my Department. In accordance with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies each Education Support Centre should publish an annual report and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 May 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will appreciate, the main focus of resources over the last decade and for the coming period is on provision of additional capacity to cater for increasing demographics particularly at post-primary level and for special education needs provision. The immediate priority of my Department is providing new and replacement school places each year, to ensure that every child has a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 May 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. There has been an increase of 21% tickets issued to eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: Officials in my Department are liaising with Mary Immaculate College and University College Dublin to finalise funding supports for students of the educational psychological doctorate programme who would graduate in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that there is an application for additional accommodation under my Department's Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) scheme on hand 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to confirm to the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application from the school in question under the Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme. The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: In August 2016 my Department commissioned a review of the Department’s governance of Education Support Centres. The aim of this report was to provide assurance in relation to my Department’s governance and accountability arrangements for the oversight and funding of support services and Education Support Centres. Following a detailed review the Mazars report was finalised in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: The primary curriculum was launched in 1999 and much has changed in our society and in our classrooms since them. The redevelopment of the primary curriculum to take account of these changes and to best serve today’s children has been ongoing for a number of years. The Primary Curriculum Framework, which I launched in March of this year, sets out the vision, principles, key...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that there is an application for additional accommodation under my Department's Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) scheme on hand 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department, through a variety of initiatives, continues to promote Irish in the education system and to support Irish-medium education. The Department is contributing to a number of actions in the Government’s 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010-2030 and the 5 Year Action Plan 2018 -2022, that highlight the Department’s commitment in this area. The Irish language...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 May 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. There has been an increase of 21% tickets issued to eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 May 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. There has been an increase of 21% tickets issued to eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Records (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department currently provides historic employment records to school employees paid by the Schools Payroll Division on formal request. If these records are readily available from computerised payroll records, a report is issued to the employee within a number of days. In the case of older paper historic payroll records that have to be retrieved from archives there may be a delay involved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Records (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: The payroll systems used by my Department's Payroll Division maintain payroll records for teachers and other schools staff in readily retrievable format for the vast majority of schools staff. Staff from my Department regularly issue payroll records derived from these computerised system. As the Deputy may be aware, schools remain the employers of teachers and schools staff and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: Tá próiseas comhairliúcháin poiblí don pholasaí nua don oideachas lán-Ghaeilge lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht á reáchtáil ag mo Roinn faoi láthair. Tháinig an chéad tréimhse den chomhairliúchán seo, ina raibh ceistneoir ar líne agus glao ar aighneachtaí i scríbhinn, chun críche ar an 30 Eanáir...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that Guidance Counsellors in the post primary school sector are paid in accordance with the salary scale for Post Primary teachers. The average salary for a Post Primary teacher is €73,270. This figure includes provision for Employers PRSI and subsitution costs.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: The number of students per guidance counsellor is an interesting question as it does not have a straightforward answer. Allocations for Guidance are calculated in accordance with the type of school in question (DEIS / Non DEIS and Fee paying). Allocations for Guidance are calculated by reference to the approved enrolment, including PLC pupils. The allocation is the difference between the PTR...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 May 2023)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved a project under the Department’s Additional Accommodation (ASA) Scheme which provided for the one Mainstream Classroom. The delivery of the project was devolved to the school authority and earlier this year, the project was approved to proceed to planning stage. As an interim measure, the school were also approved to tender for modular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I thank you, a Chathaoirligh, and the committee members for the invitation to be here today. I look forward to engaging with them on issues they might wish to draw to our attention. I am accompanied today by a number of officials from the Department of Education: Martina Mannion, assistant secretary with responsibility for special education and inclusion; Frank Hanlon and Martin McLoughlin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I am happy to follow up on the case that the Deputy raised in terms of two schools in an area being full and children trying to access a third school outside of their area. It is an issue that has been raised with me by a number of Deputies. We are very clear that if the two schools within the immediate vicinity are full and if the students have applied to both and been told they are full,...