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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that the provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the Department of Education. In order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). It is currently at Stage 2b of the architectural design process. The planning application was lodged in Quarter 1 2024 but a Request for Further Information (RFI) was issued. The Design Team has submitted a response to the RFI and it is currently with Kildare...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the Department. As the Deputy may be aware, for school planning purposes, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that the provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the Department of Education. In line with the Department's demographic projections of post primary school place requirements, there has been a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that the provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the Department of Education. In line with the Department's demographic projections of post primary school place requirements, there has been a continued...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers has been approved a project to enter the Department's pipeline of major capital projects. The project has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of a bundled school building programme. The project is currently at Stage 1 of the architectural design process. The process of appointing the design team was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, for school planning purposes, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (or GIS) to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose. In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that the provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the department. In line with the Department's demographic projections of post primary school place requirements, there has been a continued growth in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that requirement for school places is kept under on-going review in the context of available information on population, enrolments, and residential development activity. 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, in order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to the Board of Management of the school. The project is currently at Stage 2a of the architectural planning process. The Design Team have been working with the school to finalise design drawings. Once the Stage 2a submission is approved by my Department, the next step for the Design Team will be to obtain the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, in order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers is devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). The design team to deliver the project was appointed by KWETB in May 2024 and they are now preparing the Stage 1 (preliminary design) to design the buildings, obtain the necessary statutory planning permissions, and move the project onward to tender and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, in order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: After-School Support Services (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to inform the Deputy that funding for preschool services is a matter for the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. My colleague, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has policy responsibility for school-age childcare. By way of information, generally capital funding by the Department of Education is reserved for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that the provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including those with special educational needs, is an absolute priority for my Department. As the Deputy will be aware, for school planning purposes, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: I launched Cineáltas: Action Plan on Bullying on 1st December 2022. Cineáltas is my department’s whole-education approach to preventing and addressing bullying in schools. Cineáltas is dedicated to the prevention and addressing of bullying, cyber bullying, racist bullying, gender identity bullying and sexual harassment, among other areas, in schools. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: The school in question to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for roof works. The EWS operates on the basis of a minimal scope of works. During a recent visit to the school on 10 October 2024, the school were advised to submit a revised scope of works with an accompanying itemised cost breakdown. Once this is received the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Artificial Intelligence (5 Nov 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department and its officials do not presently use AI to generate official text. My Department recognises the potential offered by AI and is aware of the Interim Guidelines for Use of AI published. My Department will continue to assess the suitability of AI on a solution by solution basis.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: Since 2020, my Department has invested over €5 billion in schools across the country, completing over 950 school building projects. Additionally, construction is currently underway on approximately 350 other projects, which includes 37 new school buildings. These ongoing projects represent a total State investment of over €1.5 billion. Table below outlines the distribution of...