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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 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. The cost in 2021 was over €289m. The purpose of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The purpose of the Summer Works Scheme is to devolve funding to individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works which, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the operation of the school. Under the terms of the scheme, school authorities are empowered to manage these works with guidance from and minimal interaction...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Under Project Ireland 2040, the education sector will receive a total of approximately €4.4 billion capital investment over the period 2021-2025. This significant investment allows us to move forward with certainty on our ambitious plans and deliver high quality building projects, with a real focus on sustainability, for school communities across Ireland. The key drivers of capital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 194 and 195 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that under Project Ireland 2040, the education sector will receive a total of approximately €4.4 billion capital investment over the period 2021-2025. This significant investment allows us to move forward with certainty on our ambitious plans and deliver high quality building projects, with a real focus on sustainability, for school communities across...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department utilises a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support its strategic planning for capital investment. Where the geo-spatial assessment of demand and capacity in an area indicates that additional provision is required my Department considers the options of extending the capacity of a school or schools, or of providing a new school or schools. The timing and duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, for school planning purposes, 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. Additionally, Project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The permanent accommodation for the post primary school in Enfield is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme which uses a professional external Project Management team to progress the project through the stages of architectural planning, tendering and construction. It is intended that the project for the school referred to by the Deputy will be included...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (30 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The Action Plan on Bullying, which was published in January 2013, sets out my Department's approach to tackling bullying and promoting an anti-bullying culture in schools. The Action Plan contains 12 actions that focus on the provision of support for schools, teacher training, research and awareness raising and aims to ensure that all forms of bullying are addressed. A number of these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (29 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: Earlier this year, Government approved the Report of the Independent Hours Body in relation to the Haddington Road Agreement (HRA) hours worked by certain staff/grades in the public service. The HRA hours were considered by the parties to the current public service pay agreement, Building Momentum, to be an outstanding matter to be resolved, and in this context, the Independent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: This school referred to by the deputy has a project approved under the Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) Scheme for the following level of provision: 2 x 80m2 Mainstream & 1 x WC for Assisted Users & SWS External Environment - Playground & relocation of the percolation and septic tank. This project has been devolved for delivery to the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (29 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department has previously approved an application for the school in question to provide resource teaching space. My officials have recently been in contact with the school authorities regarding the possibility of providing accommodation for special education needs purposes at the school. The school site is confined and my Department is currently...