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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 May 2023)

Norma Foley: Circular Letter 0056/2020 deals with the Cycle to Work scheme operated by my Department. The scheme applies to school staff (including teachers, S.N.A.s, clerical officers, etc.) paid on payrolls operated by my Department. Applicants under the scheme must be employed in a permanent, Contract of Indefinite Duration (C.I.D), fixed term, or Regular Part Time (RPT) capacity at the date of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 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 147,900 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (3 May 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications have developed a jointly funded school sector decarbonisation pathfinder programme. It is administered by the Planning and Building Unit in my Department and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in partnership with devolved delivery support from Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. This pathfinder...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. 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 cater for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that 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 cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation. At primary level,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I would like to advise the Deputy that the school in question has received total funding of €218,013.77 for three separate projects under my Departments Emergency Works Scheme, in the period November 2018 to date.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to inform the Deputy that pay slips are made available to teachers in two ways, firstly in paper format and secondly by accessing the pay slip electronically via the Digital Post-box. The Digital Post-box service is available to individuals that wish to receive their communications from public service bodies electronically. This is a service offered on an opt in basis. Access to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 May 2023)

Norma Foley: It is open to the school to make an application under the Summer Works Scheme. The purpose of the Summer Works Scheme is to devolve funding to individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works such as external environment projects, which, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the operation of the school. As part...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department is leading an ambitious sustainability agenda and has progressed a wide array of measures to improve the overall sustainability of our school buildings. Schools that are designed and built in accordance with the Department’s schools technical guidance documents have been achieving A3 Building Energy Ratings since 2009 with current schools typically achieving up to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Apr 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 147,900 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (27 Apr 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 Enrolments (27 Apr 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: Education and Training Provision (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 248 and 263 together. A working group in the Department has been examining the matter of how NEPS can continue to recruit adequate numbers of suitably qualified staff and continue to respond to the educational psychological needs of children in recognised primary and post-primary schools across the country. To address supply issues in the medium to long...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The Redress Scheme operated by the Residential Institutions Redress Board which was in place for people who had suffered abuse in a number of scheduled institutions had an original closing date of 31st December 2005 but the Board were able to accept applications after that closing date where exceptional circumstances existed. Overall the board accepted applications over a nine year period and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I recently announced €29 million in minor works funding for primary and special schools. This funding can be used not only for the maintenance and small-scale improvements to school buildings and grounds but also for the provision of ICT infrastructure in schools. I am keenly aware of the challenges faced by educators and parents in relation to costs of digital technology,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education is very conscious of the enormous trauma which has been endured by all survivors of abuse and how vitally important it is that survivors have the opportunity to be heard in full. The scoping inquiry I announced on March 7th, 2023 will shape the Government’s response to revelations of historical sexual abuse in schools run by religious orders and has survivor...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 Apr 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 Transport (27 Apr 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 147,900 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department is aware of the Fair Employment (School Teachers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 referred to by the Deputy. The current position in the Republic of Ireland is that the recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authority. In accordance with Department Circulars 31/2011 and 44/2019, schools are required to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: The redeployment arrangements are a mechanism used to fill teaching posts. Each Main Redeployment Panel is created for surplus permanent/CID holding teachers in order to ensure that vacancies are offered in the first instance to these teachers. Information on staffing and redeployment in primary schools for the 2023/24 school year are set out in Circular 0006/2023. The Main Redeployment...