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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...

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

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy is currently at Stage 3 (tender action and award). Following changes to the Planning Acts, introduced in September 2021, a new application for planning permission is required, which is being finalised by the Design Team. A new tender process, including the shortlisting of contractors, will run parallel with the new planning application. The new...

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

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB). I am pleased to inform you that the tender process is ongoing and the closing date for the Reserve Specialists is in October 2022. Following the completion of this tender process and a Departmental review of the Tender Assessment Reports, construction will commence...

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

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the building project for the school to which he refers has now been devolved for delivery to Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB). A Design Team for the project was appointed in July 2022. This team will now design the buildings, obtain the necessary statutory planning permissions, and move the project to procurement and construction stage....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 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 announced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (22 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: There are no plans to partially or fully close schools for the reasons referred to by Deputy. My Department provides funding to all recognised 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 including heating, lighting etc. and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 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: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: The property in question, a former school, is not in the ownership of my Department. My Department has established current and future permanent accommodation requirements in the area in question. The property referred to by the Deputy is under consideration to meet some of these requirements and my Department has been in discussions with the owners of the particular building in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 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 announced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 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 announced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (22 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: Education Shared Business Services (ESBS) is a stand-alone section that comes under the remit of the Department of Education. The ESBS has been set up to host some of the Shared Service operations to be provided directly by the Department under its Shared Services Plan. 12 ETBs have now migrated their Payrolls to ESBS with LCETB in line to become the 13th ETB to migrate their Payroll to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: The Dept. is in contact with the school in respect of this matter, and the Dept. are assisting the school in progressing the project.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 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. Under the terms of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (22 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: The pupil-teacher ratio for mainstream classes in primary schools in 2021/2022, the most recent year for which we have data, was 22.8. This figure only accounts for mainstream teachers in mainstream classes, and special education teachers working in mainstream classrooms are excluded.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (22 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: The pupil-teacher ratio in post-primary schools in 2021/2022, the most recent year for which we have data, was 12.2. There is currently no means of identifying post-primary pupils in special classes on the Post-Primary Online Database, and therefore the stated pupil-teacher ratio includes all pupils and teachers at post-primary level.