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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Under Project Ireland 2040, my Department continues to make progress to increase the infrastructural capacity in the schools sector, in order to meet demographic and other demands. The current status of approved projects is listed on a county by county basis on on my Department's website at www.gov.ie and is updated on a monthly basis to reflect their progress through the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: City of Dublin Education and Training Board has confirmed to my Department that the annual funding allocated to and staffing levels in its psychological service per year from 2005 to date in 2022 is as follows. Year Annual funding allocated for psychologists' pay € Staffing levels (WTE) 2005 703,110 10.70 2006 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education published the Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice in 2018 and refreshed it in 2019. The Policy outlines a comprehensive and whole-school approach in schools to the promotion of wellbeing and positive mental health, focusing on the entire school community, as well as groups and individual young people with identified need.  This spans the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: A coordinated pension is one where an occupational pension is coordinated with social welfare entitlements. Retired teachers with a coordinated pension are required to apply for their relevant social welfare benefits including illness benefit, jobseeker’s benefit, state pension etc. The rules governing eligibility for supplementary pension require a member to be in receipt of an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 863 to 866, inclusive, 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: Schools Building Projects (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Officials from my Department have attempted to make contact with the Deputy's office to clarify certain details pertaining to this request. This engagement will continue, with a view to answering the query in the most appropriate and expeditious way possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department has a number of long standing arrangements including with the Office of the Attorney General/Chief State Solicitors Office and the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to facilitate the secondment of legal professionals and statisticians to this Department to advise on legal matters and provide robust statistical information, respectively, to help inform policy within the Department....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: While funding is not provided directly to schools for wellbeing programmes, the Department commits considerable resources to supporting the wellbeing of all students. My Department is fully committed to ensuring that wellbeing is at the core of the ethos of all schools in Ireland, and that this is done through the implementation of the Wellbeing Policy Statement. The approach proposed in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB) were approved funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to carry out some repair works to the prefabs of the school in question. A tender report was submitted and was approved and as this is a devolved project it is the responsibility of the DDLETB to progress the works.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 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 School...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department has undertaken a significant level of work in developing projections for teacher demand and supply in our schools. The statistical projections on annual teacher demand and teacher supply at primary and post-primary level are set out in the Developing a Teacher Demand and Supply Model for Ireland 2021-2038 - A Technical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department is responsible for the Shared Education action under the EU funded Peace IV Programme, and has allocated the following grant funding in each of the past three years (2019-2022) to the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).  The funds paid to the SEUPB are used to support the delivery of Shared Education in education settings, including early years settings,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 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: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: My Department is not currently offering internships to students in full or part-time education. However, the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) in my department offers a 120 day placement annually to approximately 24 trainee educational psychologists in their second/third years of their doctoral courses in Educational and Child Psychology at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Apr 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: State Examinations (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: As the deputy is aware, on 29 March I announced an ambitious programme of work for a reimagined Senior Cycle 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 - Embed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: There are 19 staff members on secondment to the Department of Education from both the civil and public service.  There are 15 employees seconded out from my department to other organisations. There is one employee of the Department, paid by the Department, who is seconded to Caranua (Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board), an aegis body of the Department of Education....