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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: A building project for the school referred to by the Deputy has been devolved to the school authority for delivery under the Department's additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme. This project will deliver a 2-classrom Special Educational Needs (SEN) Base for the school and is currently at the stage of on-site construction. Officials from the Department met with the consultant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (16 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 395 and 396 together. Allegations of sexual harassment or assault by a staff member of the Department against another staff member are dealt with in accordance with “Dignity at Work – an Anti-Bullying, Harassment and Sexual Harassment Policy for the Civil Service”which is publicly available at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy, that the decision making authority for a school closure belongs to the Patron of a school. Any proposal to close a school must involve consultation with all of the relevant stakeholders, parents, teachers, students and local communities and follow decisions taken at local level.  In the case referred to by the Deputy, I can confirm that the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department’s Information Note TC 0006/2022 titled ‘COVID-19: Working Arrangements for Higher Risk Teachers and Special Needs Assistants (employees) for the 2022/23 school year’ published on 26thMay 2022 provided the policy on updated working arrangements from 1stJuly 2022 for the ‘Very High Risk’ group, in line with the Department of Public Expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The criteria, reviewed annually with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Each primary school receives a Special Education Teaching allocation.  The Special Education Teaching allocation provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile and also encompasses the Language Support (EAL) allocation that schools were allocated in previous...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The criteria, reviewed annually with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission and my Department are acutely aware of the needs of candidates and end users in regard to the provision of Leaving Certificate results and are doing everything they can to ensure results are delivered as soon as possible. In identifying the 2022 results date, there are a number of significant factors which when taken together together mean it is not possible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the extension to the school to which he refers has been devolved to the school authority for delivery. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the project was recently approved to proceed to the Planning Stage. 

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. The criteria, reviewed annually with...

Special Educational Needs School Places: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I move amendment No.1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: — a child's right to education is enshrined in the Constitution and, under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, must be accessible on an equal basis with others in the community in which they live; and — the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, I and my Department have been working actively to meet the needs of children from Ukraine enrolling in our schools, and to anticipate and address any related challenges that may arise. My Department’s overall objective is to maximise the number of children that can be accommodated in school settings, and my Department has been undertaking...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 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. The purpose of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Parental Leave (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The Parental Leave Scheme for teachers and special needs assistants (SNAs) is regulated by the Parental Leave Act 1998, as amended. Parental Leave is a period of statutory unpaid leave available to a teacher or SNA for the purpose of caring for their child. The terms and conditions of the Parental Leave Scheme are contained in my Department's Circular Letter 54/2019 for teachers and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Earlier this year, in recognition of the invaluable work carried out by school secretaries the Department of Education put forward for agreement by the Forsa trade union, representing school secretaries, a suite of measures designed to improve the working conditions of school secretaries. This followed extensive engagement between the Department and school management bodies with Forsa to work...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Please find attached, requested information. Please not this data is for the most recent academic year we have final enrolment figures, 2020-2021. We will provide figures for academic year 2021-2022 when the final enrolment figures are available and we expect to publish the final figures by the end of June 2022. Second-level pupils in counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon Second-Level Pupils...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Please find attached, requested information. Please not this data is for the most recent academic year we have final enrolment figures, 2020-2021. We will provide figures for academic year 2021-2022 when the final enrolment figures are available and we expect to publish the final figures by the end of June 2022. Academic Year Post Code Enrolment in Post-Primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Please find attached, requested information. Please not this data is for the most recent academic year we have final enrolment figures, 2020-2021. We will provide figures for academic year 2021-2022 when the final enrolment figures are available and we expect to publish the final figures by the end of June 2022. Academic Year Post Code Enrolment in Mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Please find attached, requested information. Please not this data is for the most recent academic year we have final enrolment figures 2020-2021. We will provide figures for academic year 2021-2022 when the final enrolment figures are available and we expect to publish the final figures by the end of June 2022. Primary-level Pupils in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon (2020-21) ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: In relation to school admissions, it is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998 and the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in that area. Under the...