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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Feb 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 to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (27 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Programme for Government commits to seeking to increase choice for parents by ensuring that families can access both multi/non-denominational and faith based education. For historical reasons, most primary schools are State-aided parish schools, with the local Bishop as patron. It is recognised, including by the Catholic patrons, that more diverse provision is required to cater for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Since 2020, my department has invested over €5.7 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 1,150 school building projects and with construction currently underway at approximately 300 other projects, which includes new school buildings some of which are being delivered in phases. These 300 projects currently at construction involve a total State...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (27 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I am committed to the provision of digital skills and literacy within early childhood and care and school settings. Existing curriculum at each level offers multiple opportunities for the development of digital skills and digital literacy. Digital skills and literacy are also supported through: o Literacy, Numeracy and Digital Literacy Strategy 2024-2033 o STEM Education Policy Statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department is providing significant additional capacity at special schools across the country, with 80 building projects at special schools at various stages of planning and delivery. This represents capital investment at over 50% of all special schools. These projects will provide almost 750 additional and modernised classrooms for children with special education needs. Construction is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved to enter the department’s pipeline of projects under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme. The project will provide 8 General Classrooms, 4 Special Education Tuition rooms, 1 Music room, 1 Textiles room, 1 Art Room, 1 Project store, 1 Multimedia room, 2 Science laboratories and a Preparation area, 1 Library and a General Purpose/...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question received funding for the reconfiguration of existing accommodation to provide 1 Special Education Needs Classroom under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme (ASA) in 2024. I am pleased to confirm that this project is Devolved to the School Authority. Kerrigan Sheanon Newman project managers have been appointed from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching and in line with the . As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The minimum registration requirements for each route are set out in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tusla Education Support Service (TESS) is under the remit of my Department. TESS operates under the Education (Welfare) Act, 2000, a piece of legislation that emphasises the promotion of school attendance, participation and retention. TESS has three strands namely the statutory Educational Welfare Service (EWS) and the two school support services the Home School Community Liaison (HSCL)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education has had no involvement with the building project for the school referred to by the Deputy. This Department understands that the project was funded under the Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP) introduced by the Irish Government and administered by the Department of Justice. The school authority in question engaged directly with that Department relating to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Feb 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 to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. this figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Feb 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: Departmental Contracts (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tusla Education Support Service (TESS) and Tusla's Alternative Education Assessment and Registration Service (AEARS) are under the remit of my Department. My Department is informed that neither of these services has used the services of the company referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Firstly, let me say that caretakers are valued members of our school communities who carry out work vital to the operations of our schools. At present, the majority of primary and post-primary schools receive assistance to provide for caretaker services under ancillary grant funding. Under the February 2022 agreement the implementation of revised salary and annual leave entitlements for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (26 Feb 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 to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. this figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Please find attached requested data. SPA and Irish Classification data is taken from the relevant final primary and post-primary lists for academic year 2023-24, the latest year we have final data for. The lists can be found on our website at the link below; Please note as per the school lists, that Irish medium primary schools are those schools with an Irish classification of "All...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Services (26 Feb 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 to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. this figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The large scale capital project for the provision of a new 600 pupil school and ancillary accommodation is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. The remaining Stages are Stage 4 - in Construction, and Stage 5 - Handover and Final Account A new grant of planning was received in December 2023, with a number of conditions attached. Decarbonisation measures were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 135, 163 and 164 together. My Department is in the process of arranging interim accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy in order to facilitate the school's immediate requirements pending delivery of their major building project. My officials are aware of the urgency associated with this accommodation and are working closely with the school...