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

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, on March 29th 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...

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

Norma Foley: The permanent accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme. This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Management team to progress the project through the stages of architectural planning, tendering and construction. It is anticipated that the project for the school referred to by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Media (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department regularly makes available English and Irish versions of all circulars, press releases and announcements on its social media accounts. There were 629 posts across the Department's social channels for the period in question, of which 178 were in Irish and had a corresponding English version. This is 28% of the total posts. The Department does not translate its retweets from other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Media (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department is committed to making information available for the education sector in an accessible format using appropriate language.  For the period in question, there were 629 posts on the Department's social media channels and there were 12 (1.9%) posts in languages other than English or Irish. These relate to the information campaign on Covid symptoms for children in school, which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Media (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department is committed to making information on its social media as widely accessible as possible. For the period outlined, the Department posted 120 videos across its various social media channels. This includes videos with graphics and text which are designed to be easy to read for everyone. 70 of the videos posted featured subtitling or closed captioning, which is 58%. The Department...

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

Norma Foley: The Letter of Intent (LOI) issued on 15th February 2022 to the preferred tenderer.  This allows the preferred bidder to put in place the Bond, Insurances and confirmations of all legal arrangements required under the Contract.   Following receipt of all the necessary documentation, the Department will be in a position to issue the Letter of Acceptance (LOA), which will allow the...

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

Norma Foley: The Letter of Intent (LOI) issued on 15th February 2022 to the preferred tenderer. This allows the preferred bidder to put in place the Bond, Insurances and confirmations of all legal arrangements required under the Contract. Following receipt of all the necessary documentation, the Department will be in a position to issue the Letter of Acceptance (LOA), which will allow the contractor to...

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

Norma Foley: The school building project referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department's Design & Build Programme and planning permission for the project has been received. My Department is currently considering the timeline for the progression to tender of a number of Design & Build projects, including the permanent accommodation for the school referred to and will...

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

Norma Foley: The Irish language is accorded special status in Ireland and is protected by various pieces of Legislation and in particular Article 8 of our Constitution which states that “The Irish Language as the national language is the first official language”. The language has particular social, historical and educational importance and is part of the unique cultural heritage of the...

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

Norma Foley: The permanent accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme.This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Management team to progress the project through the stages of architectural planning, tendering and construction. It is anticipated that the project for the school referred to by the...

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

Norma Foley: I wish to inform the Deputy that payment shall issue to the person concerned on 26th May 2022.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to thank the Deputy for his question. As a result of Ireland’s significant Ukrainian Humanitarian effort, an immediate need for significant development of the Department of Education’s Geographical Information System (GIS) was deemed necessary in order to determine and monitor school capacity in terms of the potential 100,000 Ukrainian children of school going age...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department does not currently engage any persons or firms to deal with public relations.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (10 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: Residential Institutions (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The 18 religious congregations involved in the management of most of the residential institutions in which child abuse took place have made contributions towards the costs incurred by the State in responding to that abuse under two rounds: the legally binding 2002 Indemnity Agreement and the voluntary offers made in 2009 in the aftermath of the publication of the report of the Commission to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 May 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: Tionscadail Tógála Scoileanna (10 May 2022)

Norma Foley: Fuair an scoil a ndéanann an Teachta tagairt di cead le dul le haghaidh pleanála i mí Lúnasa 2020. I mí Aibreáin 2022, chuir an scoil comhfhreagras ar ríomhphost go dtí an Roinn inar luadh go raibh sí ag dul ar aghaidh chun tairiscintí a lorg agus bhí na cáipéisí tairisceana ceangailte leis. Ní raibh cead bronnta ag...

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

Norma Foley: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. For the 2022/23 school year, the staffing schedule for primary schools has been improved by one point and schools will be provided with class teachers on the basis of 1 teacher for every...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (5 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The aims and objectives of the statutory educational welfare service are to ensure that every child either attends school regularly or otherwise receives a minimum education; to ensure and secure every child’s entitlement to education. This service is delivered by Educational Welfare Officers who work with families and children in a child-centred way to overcome barriers to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge (5 May 2022)

Norma Foley: An intradepartmental working group was established within my Department in September 2021 to progress the work of developing a new policy for Irish-medium Education outside of Gaeltacht areas. This working group consists of officers from relevant units in the Department of Education. It has met on a monthly basis since its establishment. The intradepartmental working group has focused on...