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

Norma Foley: The Department’s total spending on advertising for the period in question is outlined below. The Department does not have a breakdown for online advertising available. The Department has not incurred any expenditure on advertising to date in 2023. The Department has recently engaged in a number of advertising campaigns including the Teaching Transforms campaign which has been ongoing...

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

Norma Foley: The Communications Unit of my Department, encompassing its press office, operates social media accounts in the Department's name, to inform stakeholders and the public about important matters relating to the Department's policies and its work.  It has not created any social media accounts under false names, for any purpose.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 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: Teacher Training (1 Feb 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)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 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: Gender Recognition (1 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: Equity and inclusivity are fundamental principles at the heart of our education system. These are enshrined in the  Mission of the Department  and  the  Statement of Strategy published last year. The aim of my Department  is to develop a system that welcomes and meaningfully engages all students and strengthens a culture of inclusion. The Programme for...

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

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the school in question, with Roll Number 16816N, closed in August 2019. When a school building becomes vacant as a result of closure/amalgamation/replacement, the future use of the old building is in the first instance a matter for the property owner. When the property owner applies to the Minister for permission to either use the property for community purposes or to sell...

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

Norma Foley: Under Project Ireland 2040, the education sector will receive a total of approximately €4.4 billion capital investment over the period 2021-2025. This significant investment allows us to move forward with certainty on our ambitious plans and deliver high quality building projects, with a real focus on sustainability, for school communities across Ireland. This investment will build on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 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 Brief for this project is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defective Building Materials (1 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: A major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is to 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 Brief for this project is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is not in receipt of an application for funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme, from the school in question.  It is open to the school authorities to submit an application for assessment and my officials have sent the necessary forms and information to the school authorities to enable them to do so. The purpose...

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,...