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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The Deputy is correct there has been significant investment in Kildare in the past four years. Whether it is new schools or extension of school accommodation, the Department has not been found wanting. I will request an update on the school the Deputy mentioned and ensure he receives it. In the round, we are told there are 400 more places in the system for sixth class than is required....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I agree the Minister has given much time to ensuring the fastest possible delivery takes place and that accommodation needs and the needs of children in education are kept to the fore. St. Farnan's Post Primary School in Prosperous is another one we all thought would be well advanced by now but it is not. I reiterate the point I made on the climate element. This is a red herring that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I acknowledge the Deputy has a particular commitment to education and engages with me on an ongoing basis in relation to it. In the vast majority of areas, through the work of schools, their patron bodies, their management bodies and the Department of Education, there are sufficient school places available to meet the needs of children in the area for 2024-25. The Department is working with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

School Curriculum

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has information on the number of post-primary schools which do not deliver the civil, social and political curriculum; if she has assessed whether disadvantaged schools in particular lose out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23891/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Minister have information on the number of post-primary schools which do not deliver the social and political curriculum?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The civic, social and political education, CSPE, programme, along with physical education, PE, and social, personal, and health education, SPHE, form the core pillars of the mandatory well-being aspect of the curriculum at junior cycle. The 100-hour CSPE short course, which was introduced in 2016 and updated in 2021, contributes to building the skills students need to contribute positively...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is the Minister satisfied all schools are participating equally or is there a variation between different areas, particularly disadvantaged areas? Can she evaluate the extent to which that is happening? For example, is there a known situation whereby particular schools invariably do not participate or do not participate fully?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: All of our 722 post-primary schools provide CSPE. That includes our 232 DEIS schools. Oversight of that is by our inspectorate, which visits schools, whether on an unannounced basis, an incidental inspection or for a planned and longer term inspection. As part of the longer term inspection - the whole-school evaluation, as it is called - CSPE is inspected, verified and overseen by the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Would it be possible to get information from the inspectorate on the level to which it has witnessed the participation that is expected and which would provide invaluable educational support to children, particularly in areas of DEIS schools and where there is obvious social deprivation?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: This is inspected by the inspectorate. All inspections of a school are published. They are available for perusal by anyone who wishes to do so. That is important and it speaks to the breadth of work that happens in schools every day and the excellence, determination and focus by staff in schools preparing students for the next chapters in their lives. It also speaks to the transparency...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (28 May 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (28 May 2024)

Questions Nos. 5 and 6 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Schools Building Projects

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will have a plan for a new school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23898/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This question is about Castlebar Educate Together School. The school operates over three campuses and has 150 pupils. The Minister will be familiar with the school because she visited it in September 2022. She promised them at the time a new school but nothing has been delivered since. She asked them to submit possible locations and sites and they did that immediately but they cannot get...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Castlebar Educate Together National School was established as a four-class school under the terms of a divestment process in September 2016. I am very pleased to confirm that a capital project to provide a new permanent eight-classroom school building for the school is included in the Department of Education's school building programme pipeline. This capital project is at site acquisition...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Part of the problem is the pipeline and how long the pipeline is. Since the possible sites were submitted to the Minister, nothing seems to have happened from the school end. Some of the children are in Marsh House, some are in Cavendish Lane and some are near the hat factory. The Minister may have heard Sarah Calvey, the principal, and Sarah Scott, one of the pupils, on "Morning Ireland"...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department has not been found wanting in making the additional facilities available. At the time of the establishment in 2016, the school was designated as a four-classroom school with the agreement of the patron. That is what the patron agreed to, and it was agreed with the patron that enrolments would be managed within the available accommodation. It was agreed the school would grow...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for that. We are very keen to get a timeline on this, as she can see, in order that we can reassure the parents and the teachers as well as the children, who asked me about this at a meeting recently. One parent I spoke to has a child with special needs and she just cannot understand why the sibling cannot be on the same side as her. I ask that this be expedited as...