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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.

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...