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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Oct 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 announced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Oct 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 announced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: In March this year I was glad to be able to announce a major expansion of the DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools programme. This means that, for the first time since 2017, the programme has been significantly expanded to an additional 322 schools. Those schools are now gaining access to targeted supports to address educational disadvantage. This will add an additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Oct 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 at a cost of over €289m in 2021. Bus Éireann is responsible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with the statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. It is a function of the Council under the Teaching Council Acts (s7(2)) to act as the competent authority for recognition of qualifications obtained by a person...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Oct 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 announced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: Salary progression automatically occurs for teaching service where a teacher is registered with the Teaching Council for the sector in which they are teaching in. My Department also operates a scheme where a person can apply for recognition of relevant teaching and non-teaching service for the purposes of progression along the salary scale which is not already remunerated by my Department or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved funding under the ASA scheme for the provision of Modular mainstream and special education accommodation. The project is devolved to the school for delivery and the school’s design team are using the Department’s modular accommodation framework. The Department has contacted the modular accommodation provider in order to assist...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 215, 216 and 225 together. The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) of my Department provides a school-based psychological service to all recognised primary and post-primary schools through the application of psychological theory and practice to support the well-being, and the academic, social and emotional development of all learners. A...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department requires post-primary lessons to be a minimum of 40 minutes. This is laid out in Circular 59/2021, which states "To facilitate this learning and the implementation of good formative assessment practices, a minimum class period of 40 minutes is required. Certain subjects require double class periods (2 x 40 minutes) during the school week. Schools must ensure that class periods...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The Teaching Council have responsibility to determine the procedures that apply to the conduct of inquiries, in accordance with their legislative mandate to conduct inquiries. As the sanctions that may result must be referred to the High Court for approval, a higher burden of proof is applied. Section 42(9) of the primary legislation refers to the Investigating Committee considering...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the schedule of accommodation for purpose of the school's project brief, is currently being devised and my Department will be in further contact with the school authorities when this process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding in respect of the school in question. My Department's priority continues to be the provision of essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation to meet school place requirements. The application from the school is under assessment by my officials currently and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Oct 2022)

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. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: 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 my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Derelict Sites (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The information sought by the Deputy is currently being collated by officials within my Department and will be forwarded to the Deputy in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (27 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, the 18 religious congregations involved in the management of most of the residential institutions in which child abuse took place have made contributions towards the costs incurred by the State in responding to that abuse under two rounds: the legally binding 2002 Indemnity Agreement and the voluntary offers made in 2009 in the aftermath of the publication of the...

Seanad: School Transport: Statements (26 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: I thank Senators for the invitation to make a statement to update them on the school transport provision for the current school year. School transport was established in 1968. It was created to facilitate access to primary and post-primary education for those children who, because of where they reside, might otherwise have difficulty attending school regularly. Of course there have been...

Seanad: School Transport: Statements (26 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: I once again thank Senators for the opportunity to update the House on school transport for the current school year. I will reiterate what I outlined at the outset, which is that 126,000 tickets have been issued to applicants for the 2022-23 school year under the main scheme alone. At the start of the last school year, approximately 103,600 children were being carried on mainstream school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was granted funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme 2021 to provide one mainstream classroom with en-suite toilets, one assisted user WC and one SET Room. This project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority and is currently at the Design stage. It is now a matter for the Board of Management to advance this...