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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit and school enrolment data, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise and where additional school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: Decisions regarding the use and deployment of digital technology in schools is a matter for the Board of Management of each school. Schools are advised to consult with members of the school community including parents when planning for the introduction of digital technologies including devices with cost and other implications been fully considered by the Boards of Managements before a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: The road you refer to is currently being investigated by my Department's School Property Management section. The road is on land that has not yet been registered so, - at this point - , it is necessary to identify where actual ownership lies before any transfer can be considered. My Department has consulted with relevant parties including Donegal County Council, the school itself and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: The purpose of the Remote Area Boarding Grant scheme is to give students who are disadvantaged because of their remoteness from schools, an opportunity to attend school on the same basis as students not so disadvantaged. The terms of this scheme are set out in Circular 16/2016 which is published on my Department’s website at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 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: Health Promotion (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: Work is ongoing in my Department in relation to how to best give effect to the Programme for Government commitment to establish a new Primary School Healthy Eating education programme, building on the existing wide range of provision in schools in the area of healthy lifestyles. This includes promotion of healthy lifestyle choices through the curriculum, where appropriate, for example,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 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. The cost in 2021 was over €289m. Under the terms of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: The schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects in progress, undertaken or commissioned by my Department and the details of the person or body that is conducting each project is set out in the table below. Title of current study/ review / research undertaken or commissioned End Date Person / Body conducting project Total...

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

Norma Foley: The permanent building project for the school in question is being delivered under my Department's Design and Build programme. This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Manager to progress the project through the relevant stages of architectural planning, tender and construction. Planning permission for a 1,000 pupil post-primary school building, including 4 classrooms...

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

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme, from the school in question. My officials are in contact with the school authorities directly in relation to this application and the issues of concern to the school.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: Thank you Deputy for your question, The most recent figures available (30 June 2022) show that a total of 7,285 students from Ukraine have enrolled in schools (5,047 primary, 2,238 post-primary) across all 26 counties. At that point, a total of 1,462 schools had students from Ukraine enrolled (1,041 primary, 421 post-primary) across all counties. I can also inform you that, as of...

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

Norma Foley: The terms and conditions of the Career Break Scheme (www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/229051/2bcc29cd- 6266-47cf-8906-e9ef4ae80ac4.pdf#page=102:~:text=relevant%20p ersonnel%20records.-,102,CAREER%20BREAK%20SCHEME,-(Should%20 be%20read) for teachers are contained in my Department’s Circular Letter 54/2019 (assets.gov.ie/31530/18a305c43c954e7d8bcada934e216522.pdf) (Chapter 7)....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 269 and 270 together. NEPS is organised into eight regions nationally. Psychologists work within a regional and local office structure serving the needs of schools in their vicinity. The Sligo and Mullingar Offices are part of the one region – the North West/North Midlands Region. Psychologists are assigned to schools across the region. Where there is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. In the past 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 funding for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 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 Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: The state examinations for 2022 saw examinations for all students, Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle, return for the first time since 2019. Recognising the disruption to teaching and learning which had been experienced by students as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in February 2022 I announced measures to address concerns that had been raised. These included changes to exam papers,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 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 Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: Under the Programme for Government there is a commitment to seek to make further progress in reducing the pupil teacher ratios in primary schools. At primary level, the annual staffing schedule determines the allocation of teachers to schools. The staffing schedule has been improved under both Budgets in the past two years. For the 2022/23 school year, the staffing schedule for primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: I am aware of the calls for the provision of counselling services in schools. My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary schools. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to...

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