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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Supporting special educational needs (SEN) provision in schools is a priority for my Department. The furniture and equipment needs of children with special educational needs is highly sensitive and individualised and as a result applications for funding are generally dealt with on a case-by-case basis as opposed to a general level of grant funding. A school that has an existing or approved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 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: Education Policy (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a geographical information system, using data from a range of sources, including CSO census data, child benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise and where additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 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: Education and Training Boards (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Education and Training Boards (ETBs) were established under the which provides that each ETB is a statutory body having its own corporate status. It is therefore the responsibility of each ETB to manage the day to day operation of the organisation, including the management of staff. It should be noted that under the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 an employee has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. 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 enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (25 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: Special Educational Needs (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: A major building project to deliver a new 24 classroom purpose-designed special school for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at Stage 2(a) Developed Design, where the preferred agreed design option is developed and can be fully cost planned and prepared to lodge for statutory approvals, including planning permission. Until all statutory approvals have been secured, it is not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Responsibilities (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The briefs that I and Minister of State, Michael Moynihan, T.D., received are currently being reviewed and will shortly be available on my Department's website. As announced at the time of his appointment, Minister Monyihan, as Minister of State in my Department, has special responsibility for Special Education and Inclusion. At present, work is being done to identity the legal powers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The joint major building project for the schools referred to by the Deputy is currently at the initial stage of Architectural Planning, Stage 1 – Preliminary Design, where the Design Team assess the site and current school buildings and prepare their initial sketch schemes. A preferred design option, including the scope and extent of works to be carried out, will be established...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 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: Education Policy (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my department divides the country into 314 school planning areas (SPA) and uses a geographical information system, using data from a range of sources, including CSO Census data, child benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise and where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: As part of its forward planning, my Department identified the need for a new special school to be established in the Lucan area for the 2025/26 school year. This will be a very important local facility for families and children in the Lucan area who require a special school place. My Department considers that this need can be best met through the Lucan East ETNS school moving to the new...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware my Department provides funding via the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) to enable individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works on a devolved basis and, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the operation of the school. The SWS operates on a multi-annual basis for a number of categories of works...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Éireann (25 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 (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: Please find attached requested data, primary, post-primary and special schools located in the Dail Constituency of Dublin Bay South. The data was collated from the relevant primary and post-primary school lists which can be found at the link below. www.gov.ie/en/collection/63363b-data-on-individual-schools/

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Feb 2025)

Helen McEntee: The project to which the Deputy refers, is a Major Devolved project devolved for delivery to Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB). The project commenced onsite in quarter 3 of 2024 and pending no issues or delays, it is estimated to be completed in quarter 1 of 2026. The CMETB are engaging directly with the school authority to keep it informed of progress. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 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: Special Educational Needs (25 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: School Transport (25 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...