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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Part V of the Disability Act 2005 requires that public bodies promote and support the employment of people with disabilities. The Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities for 2015 – 2024, was a cross-Government approach to addressing the barriers the employment of disabled people. It also committed the Government to progressively increase the statutory target...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for roof works. The application in question is currently being reviewed by EWS team. Once the EWS team has reviewed the application it will engage further with the school as appropriate. The EWS team is aware of the urgent nature of the works required and will keep the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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. The staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria to an independent Primary Staffing Appeals Board. The school referred to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department publishes annual teacher statistics which can be accessed through this link: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-education/publications/teacher-s tatistics/

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The project referred to by the Deputy has been devolved for delivery to Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB). The project is currently at Stage 2b of the architectural planning process. This stage involves obtaining all statutory approvals, preparing a set of fully detailed Tender documents, and preparing an accurate pre-tender cost plan. My Department manages the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Programme for Government commits to developing an appropriate mechanism to allow additional time for students with specific needs and in certain circumstances, and also to ensure that those who use assistive technology can do so in State examinations. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has responsibility for the operation and delivery of the State examinations, and facilitates...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Programme for Government commits to developing an appropriate mechanism to allow additional time for students with specific needs and in certain circumstances, and also to ensure that those who use assistive technology can do so in State examinations. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has responsibility for the operation and delivery of the State examinations, and facilitates...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Programme for Government commits to developing an appropriate mechanism to allow additional time for students with specific needs and in certain circumstances, and also to ensure that those who use assistive technology can do so in State examinations. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has responsibility for the operation and delivery of the State examinations, and facilitates...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Under Section 38 of the Teaching Council Act, all initial teacher education programmes must be accredited by the Teaching Council for registration purposes. The Council reviewed its policy on standards for programmes of initial teacher education and published updated standards in Céim: Standards for Initial Teacher Education in October 2020. 54 ITE programmes across 14 HEI (higher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education provides annual funding for two distinct categories of post-graduate programmes for Special Education Teachers: Post-Graduate Diploma Programme of Teacher Professional Learning for Special Education Teachers.Graduate Certificate in Autism Education for teachers working with Autistic Pupils in Special Schools, Special Classes or as Special Education Teachers in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna DEIS (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for me as Minister for Education, and for the Government. The DEIS programme is a key policy of Government to tackle concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. It provides a targeted range of supports and is additional to the universal supports provided to all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the attached tabular statement. Year Number of Senior Quantity Chartered Surveyors (Whole time equivalent) (WTE) Current 2025 6 31/12/2024 5 31/12/2023 5

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Programme for Government 2025 commits to provide free schoolbooks to all children in the free education system. On April 10th last, I announced details of year three of the Primary Schoolbooks Scheme which provides free schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks, to pupils in primary and special schools. More than 550,000 pupils enrolled in approximately 3,221 primary schools, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy maybe aware, the purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide funding specifically for unforeseen emergencies. It does so by ensuring the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are in need of resources as a result of an emergency situation. An emergency is deemed to be a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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. The staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria to an independent Primary Staffing Appeals Board. The school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Almost all of my department’s computer systems can utilise the síneadh fada. The exceptions to this are listed in the table below. The current inability of these systems to utilise the síneadh fada is caused by an external restrictions which my department is keeping under review. Computer System Restriction Comment: Microsoft...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Directives (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I am pleased to share that Department of Education has no EU directives which are awaiting transposition.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I wish to advise the Deputy that temporary accommodation in schools may be rented or purchased and funded by the Department or by the school authority itself, with or without Department sanction. As the Deputy will appreciate, my Department's priority is to ensure that every child has access to a physical school place. In this regard, it is sometimes necessary to make use of temporary...