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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. As set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. As set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: The permanent school building project for the site referred to by the Deputy is a campus project to deliver a 1,000 pupil post-primary school and accommodation, including four classrooms, for children with special educational needs and a 16 classroom primary school and accommodation, including two classrooms, for children with special educational needs. The campus project is being delivered...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to has been approved for a project under my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. The project will provide the following accommodation at the school: 8 Mainstream classrooms, 3 SET rooms, 1 room for shared HSL Teacher, 1 SEN Class, reconfiguration of existing accommodation to provide a 3 Class SEN Base, GP Hall and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) of my Department provides a school-based educational psychological service to all recognised primary and post-primary schools through the application of psychological theory and practice to support the wellbeing, and the academic, social and emotional development of all learners. A working group in the Department has been examining the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Media (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department’s ICT Usage policy, currently under review, states that, save for approved social media accounts, staff members should not publish official business information on social media websites, bulletin boards, or other fora in the name of my Department or purport to represent its views on such platforms. Under the Civil Service Disciplinary Code, which is issued to all new...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Diagnoses (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: The Special Educational model in schools focuses on the identification of need and the matching of specific interventions to that need. Specific interventions are therefore tailored, by the school, to the individual’s observed needs by the school, rather than being generic to a specific difficulty or disability. The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) of the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the deputy that the school in question was approved funding under the Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme. I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has received a Pre stage 1 report from the school to which he refers. The report has been forwarded to department officials for review and my Department will be in contact with the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: The Large scale capital project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning Stage 3 – tender action and award. The School is on Campus with another Special School and will be co-located at the existing site in Stillorgan. The project brief is to provide two new 10 classroom schools, a clinic, activity rooms, assembly hall/general purpose...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise that the school referred to by the Deputy will relocate to an existing building currently occupied on an interim basis by another school while awaiting the construction of a building project for that school. In this regard, the building project for that school is at an advanced stage of the tender process. The project is currently on hold to proceed to construction due to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Mar 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 (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that 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 an absolute priority for my Department. In order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Mar 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 (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: 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. Major new residential developments in a school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a number of policies and programmes which are supportive of afterschool clubs or activities for students at risk of educational disadvantage. DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools is a key policy initiative of the Department of Education to address educational disadvantage at school level. In the 2022/23 academic year there are over 1,200...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: Under the Programme for Government there is a commitment to seek to make further progress in reducing the pupil teacher ratios in primary schools. In Budget 2023, I ensured major investment in our schools and I have succeeded in bringing the teacher allocation ratio to an average of 1 classroom teacher for every 23 pupils in all primary schools for the 2023/24 school year which is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that 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 System, using data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country, including North...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to the Board of Management of the school. I can confirm that a Design Team was appointed by the school in March 2022. The Design Team is now preparing the Stage 1 report (preliminary design). Thereafter, it will ensure that the project obtains the necessary statutory planning permission, and will be responsible for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: The permanent accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme. This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Management team to progress the project through the stages of architectural planning, tendering and construction. It is intended that the school will move to suitable interim...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Kildare & Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). The Design Team is currently preparing the Stage 2a report (developed design) for submission and the Department understands from KWETB that the report is nearing completion. It is a matter for KWETB, as the client for the project, to ensure that this is...