Results 101-120 of 127 for data protection speaker:Norma Foley

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Department's own school enrolment databases, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: ...15 million in 2020. The range of supports being made available to schools includes financial supports to provide for additional staffing, management supports, enhanced cleaning, hand hygiene and personal protective equipment costs under the Covid-19 response plans, school transport, the continuation of additional educational psychological services to provide for well-being supports,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: ...admission process is available on the Department’s website at www.education.ie/en/Parents/Information/School-Enrolment. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including Child...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Department's own school enrolment databases, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (18 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: ...on the new admission process is available on the Department’s website at www.education.ie/en/Parents/Information/School-Enrolment. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: ...on the new admission process is available on the Department’s website atwww.education.ie/en/Parents/Information/School-Enrolment. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: ...on the new admission process is available on the Department’s website at www.education.ie/en/Parents/Information/School-Enrolment. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Department's own school enrolment databases, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: ...the new admission process is available on the Department’s website at www.education.ie/en/Parents/Information/School-Enrolment. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (12 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Department's own school enrolment databases, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (10 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Department's own school enrolment databases, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (10 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: ...to determine where additional school accommodation is needed at primary and post-primary level across the 314 school planning areas through a Geographical Information System. The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Employment Affairs & Social Protection and the Department's own school enrolment databases, to identify where the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (10 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS uses data from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Department's own school enrolment databases, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

Norma Foley: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre and HSE has published guidance in relation to the return to school for at risk groups. The advice confirms that for the vast majority of children, can return to school and it is important for the overall health and wellbeing for children to attend school. This is consistent with public health advice internationally. The guidance is available at the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Norma Foley: ...set out the practical steps schools must take to minimise the risk of introduction and transmission of Covid-19 in the school environment and provide for the safe operation of schools. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre and the HSE have published guidance for managing potential cases of COVID-19 in educational settings, which includes the testing strategy within an educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Norma Foley: ...for all employees. Those deemed ‘high risk’ and ‘normal risk’ can attend the workplace safely where the school is implementing the Covid-19 Response Plan and the health advice for schools. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre and the HSE have published guidance for managing potential cases of COVID-19 in educational settings, which includes the testing...

Seanad: Leaving Certificate 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Norma Foley: ...expert opinion on the coding. On Saturday, I received a statement from ETS and published it that afternoon. ETS raised two issues in its review. The first was an error which occurred in the use of data, where a student did not sit all three core subjects at junior cycle. A small minority of students do not sit one of the three core subjects in their junior cycle examinations for a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (1 Oct 2020)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 184 and 185 together. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre and the HSE have published guidance for managing potential cases of COVID-19 in educational settings, which includes the testing strategy within an educational facility ‘Schools Pathway for COVID-19, the Public Health approach’: This guidance provides that the HSE Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre and the HSE have published guidance for managing potential cases of COVID-19 in educational settings, which includes the testing strategy within an educational facility ‘Schools Pathway for COVID-19, the Public Health approach’: This guidance provides that the HSE Department of Public Health will liaise directly with schools regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (29 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The P-POD database provides information on enrolment at post-primary school level. Other purposes of P-POD include the basis for the allocation of teachers and capitation grants. My Department received approval from the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) to introduce a question on ethnic and cultural background (based on the question in the national census), in data returns made by individual...