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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jul 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 the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: There are a number of options open to students across Senior Cycle that provide students with the opportunity to develop their skills and reach their full potential. Transition Year (TY) is a one-year programme between Junior Cycle and Senior Cycle. It is designed to act as a bridge between the two by facilitating the smooth transition from the more dependent learning of the Junior Cycle...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (12 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme, from the school in question. The application is being assessed by my officials and the school authorities will be contacted directly with a decision when the assessment process has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Jul 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. The cost in 2021 was over €289m. In order to plan for, and provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (7 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: For the 2020-21 academic year, the available data shows there were 588 sixth-class pupils with home addresses in the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf school planning area (SPA). For the 2021-22 academic year, the available data shows there were 325 pupils remained in the SPA to attend their first year in a post-primary school within the catchment, while 263 pupils left the SPA to attend schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that 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, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Jul 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. The cost in 2021 was over €289m. The purpose of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Jul 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: Education Policy (7 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: Access to Relationships and Sexuality Education, or RSE, is an important right for students. This is reflected in the Programme for Government, which states that this Government will develop inclusive and age appropriate curricula for RSE and Social, Personal and Health Education across all schools. The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (the NCCA) was requested to conduct a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (7 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission, SEC, has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the Leaving Certificate examinations. The SEC confirmed in June that it intends to issue the Leaving Certificate 2022 results on Friday, 2 September. The intended date is in line with the date that Leaving Certificate results issued to students in both 2020 and 2021. Over the past...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: Traditionally, school buildings are owned by the school patron. In general, this may be a diocese or religious congregation. Prior to 1999 when a decision was taken for the Minister for Education to acquire sites for schools the main schools owned by the Minister for Education were in the Community and Comprehensive school sector. The information requested by the Deputy is not readily...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Tipperary Education and Training Board (TETB). I am pleased to confirm that a design team to deliver this project has been appointed by the ETB. The Design Team will now begin preparing the Stage 1 report (preliminary design). The Design Team will ensure that the project progresses through the design stages, obtains...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (7 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: In March I was glad to be able to announce a major expansion of the DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools programme which means that, for the first time since 2017, the programme is being significantly expanded and eligible schools will now gain access to targeted supports to address educational disadvantage. This will add an additional €32million to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (7 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that a technical inspection was carried out on the school to which she refers. The purpose of the inspection was to assess the school's Emergency Works Application to remove Asbestos Containing Material from tiles within their building. The school were advised to arrange a Management Asbestos Survey (MAS), and the scope of work was agreed upon with the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Programmes (6 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: I acknowledge the Deputy's concerns. The extension of the DEIS programme has been significant. The programme for Government committed to completing the new DEIS identification model and to extending DEIS status to those schools that serve the highest concentration of pupils at risk of educational disadvantage. It is important to say that the extension of the DEIS programme to new schools...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Programmes (6 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: I thank the Deputy. In March I announced, as she outlined, a major extension of the DEIS programme, which means that for the first time since 2017 the programme is being significantly expanded and eligible schools will gain access to targeted supports to address educational disadvantage. This is the largest ever single investment in the programme, at a cost of €32 million, and will...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: I thank the Deputies for the points they have raised and for the amendments they have put forward. I absolutely accept in good faith the manner in which they were all made. I think we have a shared objective here, which is to realise the maximum potential for all students, and in this instance, particularly for students with additional needs, and the provision of special classes or...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: No. It is amendment No. 7 straight through to amendment No. 17.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Norma Foley: I apologise. I assumed Deputy Ó Ríordáin moved all of them.