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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...

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

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers was approved funding under the Additional Accommodation Scheme to enable it to build 2 SET Rooms.  A Stage 2B submission was received in my Department in October 2021. A query was issued to the school requesting compliance with DAC and Building Control Regulations. No response or updated Stage 2B report has been submitted since. The...

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

Norma Foley: My Department does not promote or endorse any particular product, programme or resource to be used by schools, this decision is taken at school level. Aside from a number of prescribed texts at post-primary level, schools have significant autonomy to identify the books which best suits their needs. The only requirement of schools from my Department in this regard, is that the school...