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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The Digital Strategy for Schools 2027, which builds on the progress made under the previous Digital Strategy (2015-2020), is underpinned by an investment of some €200m included in the National Development Plan 2021-2030 providing continuity of funding following the €210m that issued to schools to support the previous strategy. To date, €100m of that funding has issued to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: As requested by the Deputy, please see attached table showing projects for schools in Kerry which were received by my Department and received initial approval in 2024. Please note that there are other school building projects in Co Kerry at various stages of progress. The Department's website provides a list, by county, of all projects being progressed under the large scale and additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day-to-day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance and general up-keep, and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day-to-day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance and general up-keep, and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education publishes details of the total number of teachers appointed to primary schools, and to Voluntary Secondary and Community and Comprehensive post primary Schools each year, and this information is available at gov - Teacher Statistics (www.gov.ie).

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 and 168 together. Please find attached requested data. Data includes the number of primary and post-primary schools by County for the years 2011 to 2023. With 2023 being the last year we have final data for. I have also included the number of new primary and post-primary schools opened due to demographic reasons as well as the number of new primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 and 172 together. Budget 2025 provides for an unprecedented €11.8 billion investment in education and schools, an increase of some 9 per cent on the same figure in Budget 2024. Currently there are almost 88,000 teaching posts allocated across the primary and post-primary school system. This represents an increase of over 10,000 teachers when...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the departments pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide a 4 classroom SEN Base. The project was devolved to the school for delivery. I can confirm that this project received my departments approval to go to planning in July 2024, the department now awaits a post planning (developed design) report from the school for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (7 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: Tusla Education Support Service (TESS) is the agency which can assist parents who are experiencing difficulty in securing a school place for their child. TESS can be contacted at 01-7718500 (tessinfo@tusla.ie) for assistance. More information is available on their website on the following link: www.tusla.ie/tess/tess-ews/. The Department understands that the parent was contacted by TESS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department along with the Government is committed to supporting the provision of appropriate education to children with disabilities. Budget 2025 provides for a record level of investment in special education with €2.9 billion of my Department’s overall budget allocated for special education. This represents 6% or a €159 million increase on the 2024 provision. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: In accordance with Department Circulars 0044/2019 and 0031/2011, schools are required to employ appropriately qualified and registered teachers and ensure that unemployed teachers should be offered employment in preference to those who have retired. The Department recognises the essential role of the SNA in enabling students with significant cares needs attend school. SNAs make a very...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: Since 2020, my department has invested over €5 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 950 school building projects and with construction currently underway at approximately 350 other projects, which includes 37 new school buildings. These 350 projects currently at construction involve a total State investment of over €1.5bn. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: Caretakers are valued members of our school communities who carry out work vital to the operations of our schools. Under the February 2022 agreement the implementation of revised salary and annual leave entitlements for school secretaries is now fully operational, and lessons learned from that process are now playing a key role in the drafting and implementation of a similar deal to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: Since 2020, my department has invested over €5 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 950 school building projects and with construction currently underway at approximately 350 other projects, which includes 37 new school buildings. These 350 projects currently at construction involve a total State investment of over €1.5bn. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers, has a major project ongoing which is devolved for delivery to Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB). The execution of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between my Department and GRETB is currently being arranged. Once the SLA is in place, the ETB will procure a design team for the project to design the buildings, obtain the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers, has been devolved for delivery to Galway and Roscommon ETB. (GRETB) The execution of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between my Department and Galway and Roscommon ETB, which is currently being arranged, will be the next and last step in finalising this brief. Once the SLA is in place, the ETB will procure a design team for the project to design the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: Faigh iniata na sonraí iarrtha. Tá obair ar siúl i mo roinn faoi láthair chun polasaí nua a fhorbairt don oideachas lán-Ghaeilge lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht. Agus an polasaí nua á fhorbairt againn, beidh iniúchadh á dhéanamh ar bhealaí inar féidir cur leis an soláthar don oideachas lán-Ghaeilge.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The tender referred to by the Deputy relates to the procurement of the multi-disciplinary design team consultants to provide design services for the development of the schools' design as part of Phase 1 of the ADAPT 4 delivery programme. The tender documents were published on E-Tenders as required under Public Procurement Procedures. The tender competition is due to close before the end...