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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Overseas Study Placements (29 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The SEC has announced that it intends to issue Leaving Certificate results this year on September 2 which is in line with the date results issued in both 2020 and 2021. In similar fashion to the last two years, contacts with international counterparts will take place and will continue over the Summer to ensure Irish students continue to have all options available to them. However, at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Please find attached requested information for Primary Schools for academic year 2020-2021, the last year we have final data for. We expect to publish the final enrolments for academic year 2021-2022, including class size tables, by the end of June 2022. The figures are based on mainstream classes in mainstream schools and were collated from the relevant Class Size tables published on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Jun 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, are 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: 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 grants to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff. These supports are made available to all recognised primary and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has recently been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a programme of school building projects. The NDFA has been in contact with the school to introduce the team, communicate arrangements and discuss the project brief. The next step for the NDFA will be the appointment of a programme manager and full...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The site referred to by the Deputy will be the schools permanent location.  My Department lodged a planning application with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council on Tuesday 21stJune 2022 to provide interim accommodation on this site while awaiting the school's permanent accommodation.  As a contingency arrangement, my Department have also prepared a Section 5 application to Dun...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I refer to your further correspondence in relation to a named individual’s (details supplied) Qualification Allowance entitlement. The position remains the same as previously outlined in the follow up response to Parliamentary Question No. 59779 of 2021 which was communicated to this teacher in February of this year. As previously stated “To be eligible for payment of an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The project referred to be the deputy is a campus project at Clonard, Co. Wexford. It has been devolved for delivery to Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB). The current status for this project is that it is at Stage 1 of the Architectural Planning process. The Stage 1 Report has been received in the Department and it is currently being reviewed by the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna DEIS (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I announced on the 9th March that from next September the DEIS programme will be extended to an additional 310 schools. 37 schools will also benefit from additional supports following reclassification. Schools were identified for inclusion in the programme through the refined DEIS identification model which is an objective, statistics based model. Schools were not required to apply for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: With regard to the permanent site for the school referred to by the Deputy, approval to dispose of the site to the Minister was granted at Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Meeting on 11th April 2022. This transfer is being progressed in line with the DPER protocol 15/11 for the “Intra State Transfer of State Property Assets” together with an agreed valuation produced by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Information on the State boards under the remit of my Department, including details of the persons currently serving on each board, is set out in the attached document. For the Deputy's information, details of the State Bodies that fall under the remit of my Department, are available on the gov.ie website at the following link;  www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/fc14...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The most recent enrolment data available is the preliminary enrolments for 2021-2022, published December 2021. The preliminary data will be replaced by the final enrolment data for 2021-2022 which we expect to publish in June 2022.   As per the preliminary data, there were 391,703 pupils enrolled in post-primary schools.  ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The most recent enrolment data available is the preliminary enrolments for 2021-2022, published December 2021. The preliminary data will be replaced by the final enrolment data for 2021-2022 which we expect to publish by the end of June 2022.   As per the preliminary data, there were 546,121 pupils enrolled in mainstream primary schools, 8,682 pupils enrolled in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that my department is currently in the process of reviewing the circulars on exemptions from the study of Irish as set out in the current circulars – 0052/2019 primary and 0053/2019 post primary. This review includes a review of the criteria in relation to children with Special Educational Needs. I expect that revised circulars will be published for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The terms and conditions of the Career Break Scheme for teachers are contained in my Department’s (Chapter 7). A Career Break is a period of unpaid special leave for not less than 1 school year. It may be extended on an annual basis provided the total period of the Career Break does not exceed 5 years at any one time, subject to an overall maximum of 10 years absence...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Flexible Work Practices (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: There are 1519 (1471.5 full time equivalents) people currently employed by my Department. A phased return to  physical attendance in the workplace commenced for staff members in the Department following the easing of Government restrictions on 21 January 2022 and staff are currently attending the office for a minimum of two days per week and working remotely for the remaining days....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: 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 services staff. I have committed to seeking funding for further increases in the capitation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna DEIS (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I announced on the 9th March that from next September the DEIS programme will be extended to an additional 310 schools. 37 schools will also benefit from additional supports following reclassification. Schools were identified for inclusion in the programme through the refined DEIS identification model which is an objective, statistics based model. Schools were not required to apply for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that the Summer Works Scheme does provide for a variety of categories of works including substantial structural works such as the replacement of roofs. The Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme is the main mechanism for provision of additional capacity in schools.  Decisions on applications received from schools are based on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: A major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under the Department’s ADAPT Programme. The ADAPT Programme uses a professional external Project Manager to co-ordinate and drive the Design Team to achieve the best possible timeframe for the project through the stages of Architectural Planning, to Tender and Construction. The tender process to...