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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Question Heading for question(s) 76 (10 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: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers was granted funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme to build a 2 classroom SEN Base, new Music Room and 5 classrooms, with new ground floor entrance foyer, relocated administration facilities, meeting rooms, boiler room and all additional associated works. I can confirm that the project is currently at design stage...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 79, 87 and 93 together. I am pleased to inform the Deputies that all outstanding payments to the school in question in respect of home tuition have now been processed. The purpose of the Home Tuition Grant Scheme is to provide funding towards the provision of a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of specific reasons, are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, there are a number of published reports highlighting the ongoing needs of survivors and the lifelong difficulties they encounter. It is also very important that the views of survivors of institutional abuse are heard in this regard. My Department commenced a structured process of consultation with survivors and the initial phase of this process resulted in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: I recently announced details of Ireland’s first national primary school book scheme, which will provide free schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks, in recognised primary schools and special schools. More than 558,000 pupils enrolled in approximately 3,230 primary schools, including over 130 special schools, will benefit from this measure. The total investment, of over €50...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: Following engagement with the relevant stakeholders, issue of preliminary report, which was circulated to the Raheny school community, feedback provided and views shared, the facilitator issued their final report to the school patron.  The report concludes that the Raheny schools are not amenable to, or potential candidates for, transfer of patronage, and that the three Raheny schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: Education and Training Boards (ETBs) are not required to provide my Department with a breakdown of legal costs incurred by individual case or issue. However, information in relation to overall legal costs is available in the ETBs’ Annual Financial Statements. According to the Annual Financial Statements of the ETB concerned, the amounts spent on legal fees in respect of legal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to all recognised schools in the Free Education Scheme by way of per capita grants. 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 services staff. As part of the Cost of Living measures introduced in the Budget,...

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

Norma Foley: The Professional Support (Guidance Counselling Supervision) Programme provides all guidance counsellors employed in Department of Education funded post primary schools with five two-hour sessions of counselling supervision support in each academic year by a professionally qualified Supervisor. This provides a forum for Guidance Counsellors to meet their peers and discuss the issues they are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 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: School Curriculum (10 May 2023)

Norma Foley: The Special Education Teaching allocation, as outlined in Circular 0020/2022, provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile and also encompasses the Language Support (EAL) allocation that schools were allocated in previous years. All schools are advised in the first instance to review...

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

Norma Foley: The Professional Support (Guidance Counselling Supervision) Programme provides all guidance counsellors employed in Department of Education funded post primary schools with five two-hour sessions of counselling supervision support in each academic year by a professionally qualified Supervisor. This provides a forum for Guidance Counsellors to meet their peers and discuss the issues they are...