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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: The Teaching Council has confirmed that this person was removed from the Register under Section 34 of the Teaching Council Acts 2001 -2015 on 14 March 2022. Under Section 34, teachers are removed from the Register if they fail to apply for renewal of their registration. In line with the legislation, where a teacher is removed from the Register, they must make a full application for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Dec 2022)

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, Project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (13 Dec 2022)

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, Project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Cases (8 Dec 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.   The matters...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Dec 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, are 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: Oideachas Tríú Leibhéal (8 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 251 and 252 together. Tá sé beartaithe agam ceisteanna parlaiminte 61529/22 agus 61530/22 a thógáil le chéile. Creidim go bhfuil an Teachta ag tagairt don chlár fochéime dá ngairtear Baitsiléir Oideachais (B.Ed. Sruth Ginearálta) agus don chlár iarchéime dhá bhliain dá ngairtear Máistir...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Tríú Leibhéal (8 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 253 and 254 together. Is éard a mholfainn ná plé le PQanna 61531/22 agus 61532/22 le chéile. I gcomhréir le ciorclán 0044/2019, ní mór do mhúinteoirí i mbunscoileanna a bheith cáilithe chun an réimse d’ábhair bhunscoile a mhúineadh do pháistí idir 4 agus 12 bhliain...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department is currently assessing options with a view to identifying the optimum solution for the long-term needs of the school referred to by the Deputy.  This includes the consideration of the proposal to relocate to an alternative site/campus and also of other potential solutions, with a view to making the most appropriate provision possible for the school and for its current and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Dec 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 €289m in 2021.  The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Dec 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: The Policy for Gaeltacht Education aims to strengthen the provision of education through the medium of Irish in Gaeltacht language planning areas. As part of this Policy, the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme was established to provide additional targeted supports to schools in Gaeltacht language planning areas to fulfil language-based criteria so as to achieve recognition as a Gaeltacht...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: The project for Wexford Educate Together National School is part of a campus project for two schools in Wexford, the other school being Selskar College. The project is devolved for delivery to Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB). The Department received the final Stage 1 Report following a meeting with WWETB and its Design Team and understands that WWETB also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department’s gross voted allocation for 2022 amounts to some €10.2 billion. Eighty percent of the funding is for pay and pensions for the schools sector. It is also expended on the school transport scheme, the School Building Programme and on a range of other programmes. The table below sets out payments that issued from my Department directly to schools in County Limerick,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 46 and 47 together. The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authority, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012) and the Department does not collate data on the number of secondary and primary schools with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Dec 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: School Curriculum (7 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 50 and 55 together. The Deputy will be aware that earlier this year I announced an ambitious programme of work for a reimagined Senior Cycle of education where the student is at the centre of their Senior Cycle experience which will: - Empower students to meet the challenges of the 21st century - Enrich the student experience and build on what’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Dec 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.    Under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: A major building project for the school in question has been devolved for delivery to Louth County Council. I am pleased to inform the deputy that the Department recently authorised Louth County Council to issue the Letter of Intent to the preferred tenderer. If all is in order with the Supplementary Tender Report that follows, a Letter of Acceptance will then issue. This will facilitate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: Boards of Management of schools are the direct employers of teachers and my Department acts as paymaster to over 4,000 schools in the primary, voluntary secondary, community and comprehensive schools.  To efficiently process any change that affects payment of salary, my Department relies on schools to notify Payroll Division in a timely manner.Where the notification by the school occurs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (7 Dec 2022)

Norma Foley: Please find attached requested tables for years 2016-2021, the last year for which we have data available. Early school leavers table 2016 Early school leavers table 2017 Early school leavers table 2018 Early school leavers table 2019 Early school leavers table 2020 Early school leavers table 2021 The retention rate is calculated based on the first-year entry, tracking the progression through...