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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (4 May 2022)

Norma Foley: There has been one secondment from my Department to the university third level sector in the last two years. The former Secretary General of the Department has completed his term of office as Secretary General and is now on secondment to Maynooth University for a term which will expire on his reaching his preserved pension age. This arrangement follows two Government decisions...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (4 May 2022)

Norma Foley: The permanent school building projects for the schools referred to by the Deputy are being delivered under my Department's Design and Build programme. This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Manager to progress the projects through the relevant stages of architectural planning, tender and construction.    The first post-primary school referred to by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (4 May 2022)

Norma Foley: Yesterday, Minister Madigan and I announced a summer education programme for pupils with complex special educational needs and those at greatest risk of educational disadvantage for summer 2022. Building on the successful 2021 programme, all schools (primary and post-primary) will once again be encouraged to provide summer programmes including post-primary children with complex needs and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (4 May 2022)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that it is the policy of my Department to ensure a high standard of permanent accommodation for all schools.  However, in the context of a rapidly increasing school population over the last decade or more it is sometimes necessary to put in place interim accommodation solutions to meet the needs of schools.  Given the timeframes for the acquisition...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (4 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: EU Directives (4 May 2022)

Norma Foley: There have been no fines issued by the EU on the Department of Education  for failing to transpose EU Directives for the past 25 years to date in 2022.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (4 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: State Examinations (4 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. In my announcement 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (28 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 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: School Transport (28 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: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2022)

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

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Transport (28 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I have not been allocated a ministerial vehicle.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Road Safety (28 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The appointment of a school traffic warden is a matter for the relevant Local Authority and schools are advised to liaise with the relevant Local Authority in relation to their concerns.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (28 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The Government is committed to the delivery of quality public services, and will continue to approach public service pay in a balanced way that is reasonable and fair to both public servants and the taxpayer. This has been achieved through series of national collective agreements applying across the public sector agreed between trade unions and the Government. The process for these agreements...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 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: Schools Building Projects (27 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the building project for the school to which he refers has now been devolved for delivery to Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB).  The Service Level Agreement (SLA) has been issued to DETB. The next step is for the ETB to procure a Design Team for the project to design the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: The permanent school building projects for the schools referred to by the Deputy are being delivered under my Department's Design and Build programme. This delivery programme uses a professional external Project Manager to progress the projects through the relevant stages of architectural planning, tender and construction.   The first post-primary school referred to by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (27 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...