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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (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. My Department and Bus Éireann...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: Information has been provided to schools on cultural and linguistic supports available to support communication with families arriving from Ukraine. The Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST), the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), Post Primary Languages Ireland (PPLI) and a range of support services have come together to develop a dedicated space on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: NENEPS has led on the overall approach to supporting the wellbeing of children and young people from Ukraine enrolling in schools in Ireland, taking a psychosocial approach, in line with international research and best practice. A psychosocial approach means that children/young people and their families need to be given time to adapt and adjust to their new environment, new home, new school,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (23 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The funding provision under the Digital Strategy for Schools 2027 has issued in full for the first tranche of ICT grant in December 2021. As with funding under the previous strategy, the funding issued directly to schools as schools are best placed to identify the requirements of their own student cohort and to meet those requirements in the most appropriate way. It is a decision for the...

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

Norma Foley: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that a formal process to progress the required review of the organisation structures of the ETB sector and other associated work in respect of Phase 2 of ETB Organisation Design was commenced by my Department in September 2022. There are three subgroups within this process, progressing work in respect of organisational design review, FET Staffing Structures...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 368 and 369 together. As the Deputy is aware Budget 2023 provided for the provision of funding from the Climate Action Fund in relation to the provision of Photovoltaic Panels in schools up to 6KW output. This is really positive news for our schools and will assist with their energy needs and costs along with supporting the decarbonisation of our school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current 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 €289 million in 2021. The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was granted funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme to provide 2 SET rooms and 1 UAWC. The Department has received the Stage 1 documents for this project and they are currently under review by members of our Department's Professional & Technical Team. The Department will be contact with the school authority following...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is currently engaging with the school authority in question regarding their accommodation needs. Supplementary information was requested from the school authority and when received will assist my Department in giving further consideration to the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Official Travel (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that neither I, nor any officials from my Department, travelled to this Conference. I am not aware of any officials travelling to the Conference from any bodies under the aegis of the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: There have been significant developments over the past decade in Irish language curriculum provision for learners in post-primary schools. As with all curriculum development work undertaken by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), the development of subject specifications is carried out by representative development groups. The Subject Development Group (Meitheal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current 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 €289 million in 2021. The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at an early stage of Architectural Planning, Stage 1 – Site Suitability, Site Report & Initial Sketch Scheme Submission. The Brief for the project is an extension/refurbishment to bring the current accommodation up to 12 classrooms on the current site of the girl’s school. In January 2021,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 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: Schools Building Projects (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 380 and 381 together. The schools referred to by the deputy have been approved funding under the Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme, which will provide additional accommodation for children with special educational needs. By means of addressing the legacy issued referred to by the deputy, the Department has engaged closely with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that capital funding was approved under my Department's Additional Schools Accommodation Scheme for classrooms for children with special educational needs for both schools in question in 2018 and the projects are devolved to the school authority for delivery. My Department is currently in receipt of an application from Duleek Boys national school requesting interim...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. The school authorities were recently contacted with a provisional offer of accommodation under the ASA scheme, which includes provision for further special class accommodation. This offer is under consideration by the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: As part of Budget 2023, my Department has secured funding to provide free books to primary school students in recognised primary schools from September 2023. This measure will eliminate the cost to families for all school books at primary school, including workbooks. The implementation of the measure will build on the existing school book rental scheme, the free school books pilot...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, in April 2018 it was announced that 42 new schools were to be established over the period of 2019 to 2022. This announcement included a new 800 pupil post-primary school to serve Blanchardstown_WestD15 & BlanchardstownVge_D15 School Planning Areas. In line with the policy on the use of State assets, which is also consistent with the objective of the National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: As I have already advised the Deputy, Dublin 15 is an area of significant population growth and as part of forward planning the Department of Education has been assessing school accommodation in the area. In this regard, the Department is planning a school building for the area that will be designed to be adaptable to cater for primary or post-primary school requirements as the needs arise. A...