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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware for school planning purposes, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System (GIS) 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. My Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the table hereunder. Section 29 of the Education Act 1998 provided that the outcome for appeals lodged prior to 12th November 2020 to be upheld, upheld in part or not upheld. Section 7 of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 which commenced from 12th November 2020 provides for a section 29 Appeals hearing committee to allow,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Protection (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Tusla Education Support Service (TESS) works with all local providers on an ongoing basis to ensure that, as far as possible, children are enrolled in school within 12 weeks of seeking international protection in Ireland. As part of the process in place to ensure this, TESS receives information on families with children of school-going age in different locations who have applied for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Qualifications Recognition (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching in Ireland, serving a current register of 113,000 professionally qualified teachers. Under Irish law, it a requirement for teachers to register with the Teaching Council in order to be paid from State funds. Where Ukrainian teachers provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 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: State Examinations (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 491, 492 and 499 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. The three tenets of Senior Cycle reform are to: - Empower students to meet the challenges of the 21st century - Enrich the student experience...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Flexible Work Practices (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Phased return to a physical attendance in the workplace commenced for staff of my department following the easing of Government restrictions on 21 January and staff are currently attending the office for two days per week and working remotely for the remaining days. Following the recent publication of the Blended Working Policy Framework for the Civil Service by the Minister for Public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning - Stage 2(b) which includes the application for statutory approvals and the preparation of tender documents. A Brief Change request had been approved in principle by my Department and a Brief Change report was submitted by the school and its Design Team, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy will be delivered under my Departments ADAPT Programme, which uses the services of a professional Project Manager to co-ordinate and drive the Design Team to achieve the best possible timeframe to progress this project through the early stages of Architectural Planning. The tender process to appoint a Project Manager is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (5 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 in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The main elements of the package offered to school secretaries include, in recognition of the invaluable work they carry out, moving their pay rates to a scale which is aligned with the Clerical Officer Grade III pay scale on a pro rata basis according to a secretary’s current working pattern. However, it is important to recognise that the majority of primary and voluntary secondary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 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 Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 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 my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (5 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 in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (5 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 in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The joint building project for the two schools referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department’s Construction Programme which is being delivered under the National Development Plan. This project is currently at an early stage of Architectural Planning, Stage 1 – Assessment of Site, Site Investigations and Initial Sketch Scheme. The Design Team had recently submitted a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: A number of additional measures have been put in place to enhance substitute cover. At primary level additional posts have been allocated to substitute teacher supply panels in areas where significant challenges in sourcing substitution continue, bringing the total to 680 posts on 142 panels, covering approximately 2,700 schools. The supply panels work alongside the existing methods of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (5 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 question to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that details of the salary rates, including increment scales, payable to teachers, are set out in my Department Circular 0056/2021. The relevant salary and increment scales apply where persons have fulfilled the required Teaching Council registration criteria which are applicable to the sector in which they are teaching. Where persons do not fulfil the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The Letter of Intent (LOI) issued on 15th of 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...