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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council register teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016 (www.teachingcouncil.ie). As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The staffing allocation for the processing of Incremental Credit applications is currently as follows: 1 Higher Executive Officer. 4 Executive Officers. 1 Clerical Officer.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The decision to close a school in response to a severe weather event is a matter for individual school management authorities around the country, taking into consideration the full guidance and direction available from the principal response agencies, especially the local authority. Individual school management authorities are best placed to do this in light of local weather conditions,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The estimated costs requested by the Deputy are provided in tabular form in the attached file. Estimates are based on the cost of New Entrant teachers at primary and post-primary level, and are inclusive of both substitution costs and Employer PRSI. Values are calculated on the basis of the starting point of all new entrants in 2024 and applied to the salary scales in place on 01/01/2025....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (12 Jun 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: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department is committed to advancing educational equity for all learners, with targeted attention to groups at risk of disadvantage, including Traveller, Roma, and refugee students. To this end, the Traveller and Roma Education Strategy (TRES) 2024–2030, along with its Implementation and Action Plan 2024–2026, was published in July 2024. It represents a six-year,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 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) is issuing to all recognised primary and post-primary schools. This ICT funding is being provided to schools to help them continue to use digital technologies in their teaching, learning and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 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: Scoileanna DEIS (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department is committed to supporting the emotional wellbeing of all children including those who may have experienced trauma. The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) has engaged in extensive national training of school staff in the area of trauma-informed practice and have developed a eLearning course for school staff - ‘Introducing a Trauma Informed Approach: The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The provision of appropriate accommodation for all pupils including pupils with special education needs is a priority for this department. This is in two respects: firstly, in ensuring that there is sufficient provision for pupils with special education needs and secondly in designing school accommodation that meets the needs of all users and enhances the learning experience. Nurture...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Teaching Council register teachers under the Teaching Council Act 2001-2015 and in line with the Teaching Council Registration Regulations, 2016 (www.teachingcouncil.ie). As set out in the Schedule of the Regulations, the Council registers teachers under five routes of registration: Route 1 - Primary, Route 2 - Post-primary, Route 3 - Further Education, Route 4 - Other and Route 5 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Professional Master of Education (PME) is a two-year, full-time Level 9 postgraduate professional teacher education programme designed to qualify graduates as primary and post-primary teachers. Changes to the duration and content of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes were made in response to recommendations in the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: Citizen’s Assemblies are organised and run by the Department of the Taoiseach, thus queries in relation to the cost of holding a Citizen’s Assembly should be directed to that department. There is, however, a commitment in the Programme for Government to hold a convention bringing together all stakeholders in education. While my officials are continuing to plan for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred by the Deputy has been approved to enter the Department's pipeline for school building projects to provide one mainstream classroom and a three classroom SEN base under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme. This project has been devolved to the school authorities for delivery. In May 2025 a Stage 3 (tender report) was received by my Department which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (12 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for toilet facilities The purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide funding specifically for unforeseen emergencies. It does so by ensuring the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are in need of resources as a result of an emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (12 Jun 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...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I will start by also acknowledging Sheila and thanking her for being here. In introducing the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024 before this House, I am very conscious of the enormous trauma that has been endured by survivors of all abuse. Nothing we can do now and nothing I can say here will ever undo the hurt that has been caused. It has been nearly 25...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I thank my colleagues and acknowledge the very powerful words that have been spoken today. I also acknowledge all survivors, their strength and resilience and their voice. Without it, we would not be here, and none of the changes that have happened over time would be possible. I acknowledge Sheila and Catherine, who are with us today. As my colleagues have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I wish to confirm my Department has no current plans for upgrades or building works from the school, referred to by the Deputy. It is open to the school authority to make an application for capital funding and application forms are available at . I wish to advise the deputy that all applications from schools for major capital works must be considered in the context of capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the attached table.