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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health Strategies (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The Programme for Government (PFG) includes the commitment to ‘provide a range of free, adequate, safe, and suitable period products in all educational publicly-funded settings (including schools, colleges and HEIs), to ensure that no students are disadvantaged in their education by period poverty.’ The Government also took the decision in 2021 to support the Private...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: Holy Family Community School 91301D The major building project for Holy Family Community School is advancing through Stage 3 of Architectural Planning – Tender Action, which includes for the appointment of a building contractor. Griffeen Community College 76454S The permanent school building project for Griffeen Community College has been assigned to my Department’s Design...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: Scoil Chrónáin 19503H My Department progressed 8 Design & Build (D&B) projects (Lots 1 & 2) to construction in 2021, with a further 10 projects (Lots 3, 4 & 5) progressed to construction in Summer 2022. A further 10 projects (Lot 6) are due to proceed to tender shortly. All of these projects are tendered to my Department’s current D&B...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 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. This school is part of ‘Project Nore’, and as the Deputy will be aware, the tender process for appointing a contractor for ‘Project Nore’ is currently underway. Following the completion of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education and Bus Éireann have a process to facilitate the provision of School Transport Scheme Services for children arriving to Ireland from Ukraine. For children residing with a host family or for children of Ukrainian families living in their own private accommodation, an application for school transport can be made via a link to a form on www.gov.ie/ukraine. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: 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. The position of both LMETB and the Department is that the completion of the building in question will facilitate the location of all headquarters staff. At this early stage of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Wastewater Treatment (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the deputy that the school in question has received approval for a building project under the Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme, which has been devolved for delivery to the Board of Management for the school. The brief for this project provides for 1 x 121.5m2 ASD class & 1 x 80m2 Classroom and the project is currently at Stage 2b...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department implemented the outcome of the review of allowances and premium payments (September 2012) by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which included that certain allowances were no longer payable to many new public service entrants including new entrant teachers. Circular 8 of 2013 outlines the effect of this review on teachers and, in common with a number of job-role...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at Stage 3 of Architectural Planning – Tender Action, which includes for the appointment of a building contractor. The final prequalification process is complete and the Design Team are finalising Tender Documents. A tender process usually takes between 8 and 12 months to complete. My Department has a large pipeline...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The project the Deputy refers to has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of bundled school building programmes. The shared education campus for the project in question is in the bundle referred to as ‘Project Liffey’. A letter issued from the Department to the Project Liffey schools in 2022 to advise that their respective...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the Summer Works Scheme is the funding mechanism for dealing with more significant improvement works that are usually carried out during school holiday periods to minimise disruption to the operation of schools. As part of it’s planning for 2023 and beyond, my Department's officials are working on the arrangements for the next phases of the summer works...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As part of Budget 2023, I announced over €50 million to provide free books to primary school pupils within the free education scheme from September 2023. This measure will eliminate the cost to these families for all school books at primary school, including workbooks. It delivers on the Programme for Government commitment to extend the free school book pilot, currently in 102 DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 366 and 368 together. The project for Wexford Educate Together National School is part of a campus project for two schools in Wexford, the other school being Selskar College. The project is devolved for delivery to Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB). The Department received the Stage 1 Report following a meeting with WWETB and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department purchased a site subject to planning permission to accommodate the school referred to by the Deputy. The building project for the school is devolved for delivery to Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB). During the design process some potential site constraints have been identified, which are being fully investigated by WWETB and their design team. My...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department worked closely with officials from Wexford County Council (WCC) under the Memorandum of Understanding to identify a suitable site for the provision of the school referred to by the Deputy. WCC identified the site purchased, as potentially suitable for the development of a primary school under the MOU in late 2016. A meeting was held in 2017 between Department Officials and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 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, Project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As part of Budget 2023, I announced over €50 million to provide free books to primary school pupils within the free education scheme from September 2023. This measure will eliminate the cost to these families for all school books at primary school, including workbooks. It delivers on the Programme for Government commitment to extend the free school book pilot, currently in 102 DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Jan 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: Teacher Training (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department specifies the minimum entry requirements in the core subjects: Irish, English and Mathematics for entry into primary Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes to ensure that primary teachers have the capacity to lead in these significant areas of student learning. The current Leaving Certificate entry requirement is a O4 in Mathematics. All candidates, including school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department has no record of any capital contracts awarded to the company referred to by the deputy.