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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The Major Building Project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at Stage 3 (tender action). The tender process normally takes between 6-8 months to complete.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 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: School Transport (17 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: Teacher Training (17 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I understand the Deputy is referring to the request for tenders recently published by my Department for the provision of two Irish-medium teacher education programmes, including a full-time four-year Irish-medium Bachelor of Education (primary teaching) initial teacher education programme. Over the last number of years, as part of the overall implementation of the Policy on Gaeltacht...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (17 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The process to identify schools for inclusion in the DEIS programme is based on the principle of concentrated disadvantage. It aimed to identify those schools with the highest proportion of students from areas designated as disadvantaged. A detailed paper on the refined DEIS identification model is available on gov.ie at www.gov.ie/en/publication/a3c9e-extension-of-deis-to-further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 211, 212, 213 and 214 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, 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 strong in our current system - Embed wellbeing and reduce student stress levels I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (17 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. My officials are considering the long term needs of the school, including possible interim accommodation and will revert to the school authorities directly in this regard as soon as possible. My Department's main responsibility...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Data (16 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: There have been no EU fines paid by the Department of Education for the years 2020 or 2021. No EU fines have been paid in 2022 to-date and no such payments are anticipated for the rest of the year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 (16 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that my Department recently received an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school authority referred to by the Deputy. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate 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: School Transport (16 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 €289m in 2021. The purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate 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: State Examinations (16 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 106 and 108 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: Following extensive consultation, L1 (Language 1) and L2 (Language 2) Irish specifications for Junior Cycle were introduced in schools in 2017 as part of Phase 3 of the roll out of the Framework for Junior Cycle (2015). This was the first time discrete Irish language curricular provision was made, in response to stakeholder feedback, for student learning Irish in Irish-medium and in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (16 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: The education sector has a vital role to play in addressing gender-based violence, including through the updating and redevelopment of Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) and Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE). Currently, Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) is a mandatory curriculum subject in all primary schools and in post-primary junior cycle. Relationships and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 (16 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: Under Project Ireland 2040, the education sector will receive a total of approximately €4.4 billion capital investment over the period 2021-2025. This provides a platform for strong rollout of school building projects and delivering on the ambitions set out in the NDP in respect of catering for demographics, provision for special education needs etc. This investment will also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (16 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department operates a scheme of grant-aid to primary and post-primary schools towards the cost of purchasing essential assistive technology equipment, which has been recommended by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) as being essential for students with physical and/or sensory or communicative disabilities in accordance with the criteria set out in Circular 0010/2013 which is...