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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that requirements for additional school places is kept under on-going review in the context of available information on population, enrolments and residential development activity. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has informed the school patron that the accommodation brief for the building project in question is currently being formulated and that my Department will be in further contact with the patron when this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 236 and 237 together. Teacher allocations to all schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment on the previous 30 September. The criteria for the allocation of posts are communicated to school managements annually and are available on the Department website. As of end of October, there...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The post primary project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Kildare & Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). The Design Team is currently preparing the Stage 2a report (developed design) for submission and the Department understands from KWETB that the report is nearing completion. It is a matter for KWETB, as the client for the project, to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Nov 2022)

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. A letter was issued by the Department to the schools in February 2022 to advise that their respective school had been included in the programme. The NDFA has since been in contact with each school to introduce the team,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. In the last school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. The cost of the scheme in 2021 was €289m. In July 2022, Government...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The Action Plan on Bullying, which was published in January 2013, sets out my Department's approach to tackling bullying and promoting an anti-bullying culture in schools. The Action Plan contains 12 actions that focus on the provision of support for schools, teacher training, research and awareness raising and aims to ensure that all forms of bullying are addressed. A number of these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the last school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €289m in 2021. In July 2022, Government...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Official Engagements (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: No officials from the Department of Education have attended Joint Policing Committees and city and county development boards since 2019 to date.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pleananna Oideachais (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The Steering Committee overseeing the development of the new policy on Irish-medium education outside of the Gaeltacht consists of representatives from relevant government departments and agencies. Two meetings of the Steering Committee have been held to date, in April and October 2022. The minutes of Steering Committee meetings will be published on gov.ie after draft minutes have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The teacher referred to by the Deputy is a teacher registered as a Primary School teacher with the Teaching Council under Route 1 registration. As such, the teacher concerned receives payment appropriate to a qualified primary school teacher for the sector that she teaches in. There are two rates of payment where a teacher is registered with the Teaching Council and who work in a substitute...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The teacher referred to by the Deputy is registered with the Teaching Council as a Post Primary school teacher under Route 2 registration. The teacher is working in a primary school.Rates of pay are linked to registration with the Teaching Council for the sector where a teacher is undertaking the work. As the teacher is not registered with the Teaching Council as a primary school teacher and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: Retired teachers are not discouraged from teacher substitution and the Deputy referred to Information Note TS 0001/2022 which reminds schools that currently retired teachers can work for up to 50 days in the calendar year without incurring any abatement of pension. When a retired teacher returns to work in the public sector, their pension may become subject to abatement. Their pension...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: In relation to school admissions, it is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998 and the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in that area. Parents have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that the general principles and approach to school selection on the Department's Energy Retrofit Pathfinder Programme include schools meeting Energy Monitoring and Reporting requirements and demonstrating a strong and holistic commitment to energy management practices through participation in the Energy in Education Programme. The programme selection also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department met with representatives of Donegal ETB earlier this year and provided information about the range of supports and resources available to it to support students and staff who have been affected by the MICA issue in the county, and will continue to liase with the ETB in this regard.