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

Norma Foley: There is one employee of my Department, at Principal Officer (PO) level, paid by my Department, who is seconded to Caranua (Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board), an aegis body of the Department of Education. This officer is employed as a temporary resource to facilitate the orderly winding down of Caranua. There are no other Department of Education officials on secondment to...

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

Norma Foley: My Department is not currently involved in running apprenticeship programmes or in the training of apprentices, but is represented on the recently formed Public Service Apprenticeship Recruitment Working Group which is exploring potential apprenticeship routes for employment into the civil and public service. My Department participated in a pilot ICT apprenticeship programme...

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

Norma Foley: An hourly rate of €12.30, based on a 37 hour standard net working week, equates to an annual salary of €23,747.  There is one member of cleaning staff in my Department currently earning just below this annual salary amount.  This person is on a salary scale that provides for them to progress to a higher point on the salary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 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: School Enrolments (26 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: Teaching Council of Ireland (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with the statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. It acts in the interests of the public good while upholding and enhancing standards in the teaching profession.  The Teaching Council registers teachers in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: Individuals employed as teachers in a full-time capacity in recognised schools must be registered with the Teaching Council under Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2001 to have payment from monies provided by the Oireachtas. The onus is on all teachers to ensure that they have the necessary Teaching Council registration. The individual teacher referred to by the Deputy was not...

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

Norma Foley: The issue of road safety measures in the public road network outside of schools, such as road signage, traffic calming measures, car parking, pedestrian facilities and other safety measures are the responsibility of the relevant local authority. The Board of Management should consider contacting the local authorities in relation to traffic management and road safety concerns in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (26 Apr 2022)

Norma Foley: I wish to thank the Deputy for his question. Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with the statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State. It acts in the interests of the public good while upholding and enhancing standards in the teaching profession. ...

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

Norma Foley: The Department of Education has established a National Policy Group to develop a coherent long term strategic framework for lifelong guidance as recommended in the Indecon report on Career Guidance Tools and Information.  The group comprises the relevant Departments i.e.; Department of Education; Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science;...

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: 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: The following link contains the information requested by the Deputy. ">Salaries and Expenses The salary scale for Special Adviser to a Minister is the same as the Civil Service Principal Officer pay scale and the pay scale for Special Adviser to a Minister of State is equivalent to the Assistant Principal Officer scale, under the terms of the Guidelines for Ministerial Appointments to the...

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...