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

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has recently received an application for additional school accommodation (ASA) from the school authority in question. The purpose of the 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 cannot be met by the...

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

Norma Foley: I can advise the Deputy that my Department, together with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, are currently finalising the 2ndNational Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development – ESD to 2030. ESD to 2030 has been informed by a detailed public consultation...

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

Norma Foley: The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authority, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). In accordance with Department Circulars 0044/2019 and 31/2011, schools are required to employ appropriately qualified and registered teachers and...

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: Education and Training Boards (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Education and Training Boards (ETBs) are not required to provide my Department with a breakdown of legal costs incurred by category of case or issue. However, information in relation to overall legal costs is available in the ETBs’ Annual Financial Statements.  The legal costs set out in the audited Annual Financial Statements of Cavan and Monaghan ETB and Waterford and Wexford...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (26 Apr 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (26 Apr 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (26 Apr 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (26 Apr 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...

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

Norma Foley: I wish to inform the Deputy that an Emergency Works application was submitted by the school in question for funding to replace the complete roof.  The scope of works sought by the school was wider than what is envisaged with the Emergency Works Scheme.  The school were advised to have their consultant carry out a survey of the roof and to submit a more...

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

Norma Foley: 12 staff members of my Department have availed of secondment to outside organisations since January 2019. Two of these officers are seconded on the basis that it is not their intention to return to positions within the Department of Education. The former Secretary General of the Department has completed his term of office as Secretary General and is now on secondment to Maynooth...

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

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the school in question was approved funding in 2020 under the Additional Schools Accommodation Scheme (ASA).   The project is devolved to the school authority for delivery which includes one mainstream classroom and one Special Education Teaching room.  The project stage report submitted to the Department included a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Refugee Resettlement Programme (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 932 and 934 together. My Department continues to welcome all students arriving in Ireland. We are working with all relevant authorities, education partners and school communities to ensure Ukrainian children of school-going age, who are beneficiaries of the Temporary Protection Directive, are provided with access to appropriate supports to allow them to...

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

Norma Foley: I wish to inform the Deputy that a Summer Works Scheme application was submitted by the school in question for funding under Category 2, for Roofs Works Project.  Following a technical review of the application, the project was recategorised to category 9 which is for a Fabric Defects project. As per Summer Works announcement on the 24th of January 2022...

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

Norma Foley: Traditionally, the Leaving Certificate oral language examinations, and Music practical performance tests are conducted by examiners appointed by the State Examinations Commission (SEC) over a two-week period, either before or after school Easter holidays depending on how early or late Easter falls in a given year. For 2022, these examinations took place outside of school time over the first...

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

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Tipperary Education and Training Board (TETB). The ETB is currently in the process of procuring a Design Team for this project and the Department understands that this process is nearing completion. The Design Team will ensure that the project progresses through the design stages, obtains the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Refugee Resettlement Programme (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 941 to 943, inclusive, together. Approximately 3,800 students from Ukraine have enrolled in schools to date. I am sure the Deputy will appreciate that these figures change as schools update the POD and PPOD systems with new enrollments, particularly after the Easter period. I am not in a position to provide statistics on a county-by-county basis at this...

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

Norma Foley: In response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive, the Government has adopted a whole of government approach to supporting the people who arrive here. My Department is working with the whole education sector, including aegis bodies and education partners in regard to access to education for school-aged children and providing supports...

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

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers has been approved funding in 2021 for a building project under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme that will provide additional specialist rooms. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where...