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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I recently announced 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 inclusion in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was established in September 2021 and followed from a previous amalgamation which took place involving a DEIS school in September 2016. When a DEIS school amalgamated with a school that was not in the DEIS programme, consideration was generally given to the amalgamated school retaining some of the DEIS supports for a finite period of time post...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools is the main policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. In the 2021/22 academic year there are 884 schools in the DEIS Programme - 687 Primary and 197 Post Primary, serving over 180,000 pupils. This represents approximately 20% of the overall school population. The list of schools currently in the DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to recognised Primary and Post-Primary 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 such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary/School Services Support Fund (SSSF) to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, Section 18 of the Education Act 1998 requires Boards of Management to keep all proper and usual accounts and records of all monies received by it or expenditure of such monies incurred by it. Boards are also required to make school accounts available for inspection by me and by parents of students in the school. While schools in the Voluntary Secondary Sector...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available within in my Department. When information has been collated by my officials, I will organise for this information to be sent directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to recognised Primary and Post-Primary 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 such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary/School Services Support Fund (SSSF) to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182 and 183 together. As the Deputy is aware, on 29 March I announced an ambitious programme of work for a reimagined Senior Cycle of education where the student is at the centre of their Senior Cycle experience. In my announcement I set out a clear vision for Senior Cycle, building upon the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, on 29 March I announced an ambitious programme of work for a reimagined Senior Cycle of education where the student is at the centre of their Senior Cycle experience. The three tenets of Senior Cycle reform are to: - Empower students to meet the challenges of the 21st century - Enrich the student experience and build on what’s strong in our current system -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Wildlife Conservation (11 May 2022)

Norma Foley: While the Department does not have a policy in place to install such artificial structures, my Department is committed to implementing green public procurement (GPP) policies in all appropriate tenders including landscaping tenders. The information in respect of state bodies, within the scope of the Deputy’s question, is not held by my Department. Contact details for these bodies are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. The purpose of the Additional School Accommodation scheme (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The funding allocation and staffing levels of the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) for each of the years from 2005 is set out in tabular form. The annual funding allocation includes a pay provision for both psychologist and administrative staff and a non-pay element to cover all other service support costs. The staffing level reflects both psychologist and administrative...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy is currently located in interim accommodation in the former Teagasc Building at Malahide Rd, Kinsealy, Dublin 17, which in in my ownership. The local authority identified the site for the new school in Broomfield under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between my Department and the City and County Management Association (CCMA) for the identification of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to inform the Deputy that, in relation to the school to which he refers, approval has been given to provide for 3 x 80m² Mainstream Class Rooms under the Department's Modular Framework as a matter of urgency and in advance of the next academic year. The first step in progressing this project is to identify a contractor to deliver the project in accordance with the framework...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (10 May 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 Curriculum (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department has every confidence that, through the implementation of the Framework for Junior Cycle the place of Geography will be retained and given a new impetus across the Junior Cycle curriculum. As part of the rollout of the Framework for Junior Cycle, Geography was one of five new subject specifications that were introduced to schools in September 2018. The Junior Cycle has been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 484 and 483 together. The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, on 29 March I announced an ambitious programme of work for a reimagined Senior Cycle of education where the student is at the centre of their Senior Cycle experience. I set out a clear vision for Senior Cycle, building upon the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment’s (NCCA’s) Advisory Report. The NCCA’s review of senior cycle involved an...