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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy will be delivered under my Department's ADAPT Programme. The ADAPT Programme uses a professional external Project Manager to co-ordinate and drive the Design Team to achieve the best possible timeframe for the project through the stages of Architectural Planning to Tender and Construction. The tender process to appoint the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 316 to 319, inclusive, 320, 324, 347 to 349, inclusive, 351 and 378 together. The summer course programme for teachers contributes to the continuum of teachers’ professional learning, promotes innovation and excellence in teaching, learning and assessment, and is supportive of the goals set out as per the new national priorities. The principal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 321 and 322 together. As the Deputy may be aware my Department will be publishing a new primary curriculum framework shortly. The Primary Curriculum Framework will set out the vision, principles and components of the redeveloped primary school curriculum. The framework links with learning experiences provided through the themes of Aistear: the Early Childhood...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Feb 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 (14 Feb 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 (14 Feb 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: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers to was approved funding under the Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for the provision of a 3 classroom special educational needs (SEN) base, Toilets, Staff room, DCC room, and ancillary accommodation. I can confirm to the Deputy that the school has recently submitted a tender report for review by my Department Official's. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has responsibility for the operation, delivery and development of the State examinations. No date has been confirmed as of yet for the issue of Leaving Certificate 2023 results. The Deputy may wish to note there were a number of factors that affected the timing of the issue of results for State examinations in 2022. These included a challenge in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Feb 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: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) has been developed by the Government so that Ireland can access funding under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility. Ireland is expected to receive €988 million in grants under the Facility. The Recovery and Resilience Facility is the largest component of NextGenerationEU, the European Union’s response to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the building project for the school to which he refers has now been devolved for delivery to Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB). A Design Team for the project was appointed in July 2022. This team will now design the buildings, obtain the necessary statutory planning permissions, and move the project onward to tender and construction stages in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: A major school building project to provide completely new accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy commenced on site in January 2022. Works are progressing satisfactorily and the contract duration is approximately 20 months.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy achieved sectional Substantial Completion on in September 2022. The project brief was for the construction of a new 650 pupil Post Primary School on a green field site to incorporate a multi-use hall, ancillary rooms and all associated site works. Full Substantial Completion is expected in March 2023.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. For the 2023/24 school year, the staffing schedule for primary schools has been improved by one point and schools will be provided with class teachers on the basis of 1 teacher for every 23...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The permanent school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy has been assigned to my Department’s Design & Build delivery programme. This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Manager to progress the project through the relevant stages of architectural planning, tender and construction. The initial pre-planning meeting with South Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The latest transition rates from post-primary to FET have been published by DoE in Education Indicators for Ireland 2022 report (page 29) www.gov.ie/en/publication/055810-education-statistics/#lates t-statistical-reports . The transition rate for year 2020 is calculated on an academic year base, which takes into account all new entrants from September 2020 up to end of August 2021. As a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I would like to thank the Deputy for the question and would like to advise the following: Enabling children with special educational needs (SEN) to receive an education appropriate to their needs is a priority for this Government. It is also a key priority for me as Minister for Special Education & Inclusion, for my Department and for the National Council for Special Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (14 Feb 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: Disadvantaged Status (14 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a wide range of supports to all schools, DEIS and non-DEIS, to support the inclusion of all students and address barriers to students achieving their potential. Supplementing these universal supports, the DEIS programme provides a targeted and equitable way to address concentrated educational disadvantage at school level that promotes equity across the primary and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Feb 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...