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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (1 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 140 together. As the Deputy will be aware, the organisation referred to by the Deputy was established in 2013 to disburse the contributions of €110m (€111.38m including interest) provided by the religious congregations following the publication of the Ryan Report, by funding approved services to support the needs of former residents who,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (1 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the deputy that the issue of road safety measures outside the vested site areas of schools on public roads, such as road signage, traffic calming measures etc., is a matter, for the relevant Local Authority. Local Authorities have the power to decide on road safety measures outside schools to ensure that measures are in place to protect the safety of local school children. My...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: With respect to the enquiry concerning restrictions and regulations on private for-profit companies operating in schools there is guidance concerning the usage of school buildings for non-educational use. These Guidelines on the use of School Buildings outside of School Hours were published in October 2017 and are available on the Department's website. By way of background, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was established in 2019 to meet emerging requirements for special school places in the area. The school is co-located on its permanent site with another school in the area. My Department will be continuing its engagement with the patron regarding the school's long term accommodation needs. Both schools are under the patronage of Dublin Dun Laoghaire ETB.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Feb 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. These grants may be regarded as a common grant from which the Board of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (1 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 addresses concentrated educational disadvantage at school level in a targeted and equitable way across the primary and post-primary sector. Schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The current requirements for Gaeltacht Learning Periods (GLPs) for primary Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes takes the form of 2 x 2 week placements, which are outlined in the Teaching Council’s Céim: Standards for Initial Teacher Education. Budget 2020 provided for the re-instatement of the grant to cover the full cost of the Gaeltacht Learning Periods (GLPs) for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (31 Jan 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The criteria for the award of incremental credit to recognised teachers was agreed under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council (TCC).  This Council is comprised of representatives of teachers, school management, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Education.  The Council is chaired by an official of the Workplace Relations Commission. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that the Department has received substantial documentation from the school in question regarding its current accommodation.  This documentation is currently being reviewed and both the long-term and short-term accommodation needs at the school are being considered.  The Department will be in contact with the school in this respect in due course, and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department recently received a further application from the school in question, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme. My officials have been liaising with the school in respect of their applications for admission and the proposed building works. The school's application under the ASA scheme is currently being assessed and once the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legal Services Regulation (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As outlined in my response of 18 January, the ex gratia scheme was originally established in 2015 and was put in place to provide those, who had instituted legal proceedings against the State in respect of day school sexual abuse and subsequently discontinued those proceedings following rulings in the domestic courts and were therefore left without a remedy, with an opportunity to apply...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As set out in the Programme for Government, this Government is committed to developing inclusive and age appropriate curricula for RSE and SPHE across primary and post-primary schools. In giving effect to this commitment, the Department of Education’s first focus has been on the development of inclusive and age-appropriate curricula and it continues to work closely with the National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a programme of school building projects. The brief for this project is to provide an extension and refurbishment to the existing school building to accommodate a long term projected enrolment of 1,000 pupils. The project will also provide a 2 classroom Special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: There are two special advisers employed by my Department who have been re-appointed to the positions they held prior to my reappointment as Minister for Education in December 2022.  The salary scale for a Special Adviser to a Minister is the same as the Civil Service Principal Officer pay scale, under the terms of the Guidelines for Ministerial Appointments to the 33rd Dáil. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (31 Jan 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.  The final grant of planning permission for the project was received in March 2021. This campus project will deliver a 1,000 pupil post-primary school for the school referred to by the Deputy as well as a 16 classroom...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I am glad to inform the Deputy that an official from my Department has been in direct contact with the teacher referred to and the issues raised by the teacher have been resolved. 

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Official Travel (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: In January 2020, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform introduced mandatory new procedures for all Departments for offsetting the emissions associated with official air travel. In line with these procedures, the Department records the carbon emissions associated with official air travel, values these emissions based on the prevailing rate of Ireland’s domestic carbon tax in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The site identification and assessment exercise for the school referred to by the Deputy is ongoing. Potential site options have been identified, including Minister-owned property. The Deputy will appreciate that negotiations in respect of site acquisitions are, by their nature, sensitive and for that reason I am not in a position to provide further information at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department does not hold all of the records of casual employment carried out by teachers for Pensions puroposes.  However, as part of the process to prepare a statement of service and pension benefits for a teacher, officials within the Department conduct a full review of all verified teaching records held by the Department. In the 1980s, in general all substitute service was paid...