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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Schools in financial difficulty are encouraged to contact my Department for advice and support. The Department is committed to offering all available and appropriate supports to schools, which may include an advance in capitation grant funding or other measures. The Department is constantly engaging with a number of schools in this respect. Schools that have contacted the Department have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: I very much welcome the recent publication of the Education Indicators for Ireland 2024 report.  The report is the first of its kind to comprehensively cover education at all stages from early learning and care, through primary and post-primary education to further and higher education and lifelong learning. It gives a snapshot of the entire education system as it is now and shares...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education sets the minimum entry requirements for Irish, English and Mathematics for entry to primary Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Programmes. This was signalled in the National Strategy on Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life (2011) and is to ensure that primary teachers have the capacity to lead learning in these particular subjects, which are considered as core...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 321, 322, 323, 324 and 325 together. As Minister, I am determined to close the performance gap between DEIS and non-DEIS schools and introduce more innovative solutions to tackle educational disadvantage. That is why I am committed to publishing a new DEIS Plan in 2025. Building on the expansion of the DEIS programme in 2022, the new DEIS plan will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Protection (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department is committed to delivering an education system that is of a high quality, and where every child and young person is valued and supported to reach their full potential. I recognise and appreciate schools' engagement, collaboration, and support in welcoming children who are in the International Protection process and those from Ukraine who are here under the Temporary Protection...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department has adapted to the dynamic landscape of student enrolment and has prioritised enhancing English as an Additional Language (EAL) support, recognising the critical role of language. All schools are advised in the first instance to review whether the needs of newly enrolled pupils can be met from within existing allocations. Language supports are also included through the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Protection (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for me as Minister for Education and Youth, and for the Government. The DEIS programme is a key policy of Government to tackle concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. It provides a targeted range of supports and is additional to the universal supports provided to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department has put many supports in place for schools with significant numbers of students who are either beneficiaries of temporary protection (BoTP) arriving from Ukraine or who are in the International Protection process. These supports include extra English as an Additional Language (EAL) supports, Special Education Teacher (SET) hours and additional special educational needs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Tackling educational disadvantage and supporting students to fulfil their full potential in life is a key priority for me as Minister for Education and Youth, and for the Government. The DEIS programme is a key policy of Government to tackle concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. It provides a targeted range of supports and is additional to the universal supports provided to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The information sought by the Deputy in regard to the number of procurement competitions that did not result in contract award ran by the Department of Education & Youth is not routinely collated by my department. However, my department adheres to all OGP guidance which outlines the various stages of the procurement process from specification, through to selection and award stages....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: I refer to the Deputy's question above. Please see below a list of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects under the remit of the Department of Education and Youth which have been delivered since 2010. PPPs under Remit of DoEY with a start/end date since 2010 Name Construction Capital Cost €m...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. The Teaching Council registers teachers under the and in line with the . There are five routes of registration, the minimum registration requirements for each route are set out in the Schedule of the Regulations. Under the Teaching Council...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Teachers taking up their first contract in a viable teaching post in September 2025, will become eligible for a permanent contract in September 2026. This eligibility is contingent upon successful re-appointment following a competitive recruitment process. I hope that being able to gain a permanent contract a year earlier will help teachers in applying for mortgages and placing their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred by the Deputy has been approved to enter the Department's pipeline for school building projects to provide for 2 Science labs and prep area, 1 Home Economics room, 1 Textiles room, 1 Music Room, a 2 Classroom SEN base and ancillary. The Stage 1 Report was received by my Department in April 2025 and is currently being reviewed from both a technical and cost perspective in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the Departments pipeline of school buildings projects to provide the following accommodation: 8 General Classrooms, 4 Special Education Tuition rooms, 1 Music Room, 1 Textiles Room, 1 Art Room, 1 Project Store, 1 Multimedia Room, 2 Science Laboratories and Preparation Area, 1 Library and a General Purpose / Dining Hall. The project...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the deputy, was approved to enter the department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide one classroom SEN base and one SET under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme (ASA). This project was devolved to the school authority for delivery. In June 2024 my department granted approval for this project to proceed to Stage 3 Tender stage....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department recognises the importance of the Minor Works Grant to primary schools. The Minor Works Grant is provided to all primary and special schools, to enable them undertake small-scale minor maintenance and improvement works on a devolved basis. Schools have the autonomy to use this funding for maintenance and small-scale improvements to school buildings and grounds. Given that each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: I will arrange for the requested information to be forwarded to the Deputy once compiled.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy is aware, I recently announced €35 million in funding to support digital learning in schools. €35 million in grant funding for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has now issued to all recognised primary and post-primary schools. This ICT funding is being provided to schools to enable the continued embedding of digital technologies in their teaching,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jul 2025)

Helen McEntee: Funded by the Department of Education and Youth since 2018 under the cross departmental Creative Youth Plan, Creative Clusters is administered by the National Arts in Education office, Tralee Education Support Centre, in partnership with Education Support Centres Ireland. Due to Education Support Centres Ireland boundaries, it is not possible to provide information by county. However, the...