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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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: As Minister for Education, I am acutely aware of the costs faced by families upon the return of their children to school.   Ultimately, decisions on school uniforms is a matter for individual schools and Boards of Management. Taking the above into account, my Department’s Circular 0032/2017, was issued to the Boards of Management of all recognised primary and post-primary schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Property Registration (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: Dear Deputy - As previously advised, my Department contacted (in writing) the relevant solicitors on 30th May 2022 in relation to this matter. Further information was requested from them at that point in order for the file it to be progressed.  The requested information was not received. Telephone contact was made with the solicitors on 11/01/2023 to seek an update and they have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (31 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I  can confirm to the Deputy that the school in question have applied for additional accommodation under the ASA scheme. My Department is currently liaising with the school authority in relation to finalizing the brief. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (31 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has not confirmed a date on which the Leaving Certificate 2023 results will be issued. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has responsibility for the operation, delivery and development of the State examinations.  2022 marked the return to externally delivered examinations for all candidates at both Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The Teaching Council registers teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016. The Council registers teachers under five routes of registration namely, Route 1 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (31 Jan 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 433, 434 and 435 together. My Department has a large pipeline of projects for delivery under the school building programme. The main elements of this pipeline currently involve in excess of 1,300 school building projects for delivery under the Department’s Large Scale and Additional Accommodation Scheme. These projects are currently in progress...