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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: I refer to Deputy Ó Broin's question on the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS). NEPS is the psychological service of the Department of Education and provides educational psychology support to all primary, post-primary, and special schools. NEPS is a schools-based service and each NEPS psychologist is assigned to a group of schools. NEPS provides access for all schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department is currently engaging with the patron of the schools to which the Deputy refers in the context of the upcoming change of status of the post primary school. As part of that engagement, the short-, medium-, and long-term capacity requirements of the school are being considered. My Department is committed to supporting the school in question through its change of status,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Cases (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The information requested by the Deputy is being reviewed and collated by officials in my Department. A response will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: Please see below in tabular form the number of data breaches that occurred in my department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, and the numbers which were reported to the Data Protection Commission (the remainder were deemed to be of no risk due to their nature and therefore were not required to be reported to the DPC). Year No. of Breaches No. of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Official Travel (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: Outlined in tabular format are the total costs associated with trips abroad taken by Ministers in my Department over the past five years to-date since my commencement as Minister for Education: Year Total Travel Costs 2019 N/A June 2020 – December 2020 No travel took place during this period due to Covid-19 travel...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: 2014 NIL 2015 NIL 2016 NIL 2017 NIL 2018 NIL 2019 NIL 2020 €22,100 (two contracts) 2021 NIL 2022 NIL 2023 NIL 2024 €3,936.00

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: Information in relation to consultancy expenditure in my Department is compiled annually in respect of the previous year and published online at The data in respect of 2024 will be published online in Q1 2025.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Advertising (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department’s total spending on advertising (including design) for the period in question is outlined below. Year Total advertising spend (including design and creative costs) 2024 to date €563,630.12 2023 €800,434.04 2022 €364,842.68 2021 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, in order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System 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....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day-to-day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance and general up-keep, and the Ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: In July 2016, the Government launched a major initiative for Dublin’s North East Inner City (NEIC) to oversee the long term, social and economic regeneration of the area. The Mulvey Report entitled “Dublin’s North East Inner City – Creating a Brighter Future” was published in February 2017 and made a number of recommendations. As part of this response, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023/24 school year over 163,800 children, including over 136,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 20,200 pupils with special educational needs, and 7,400 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine were transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The Graduate Diploma in Social, Personal, and Health Education (SPHE) and Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) is for post-primary teachers, and it is being offered by Dublin City University (DCU). This programme, the first of its kind in Ireland, was introduced to enhance teacher capacity in the important area of SPHE/RSE teaching. The teaching of SPHE/RSE involves addressing a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy initiative of my department to address concentrated educational disadvantage at school level. My department now spends over €180 million annually providing additional supports to just under 1,200 schools in the DEIS programme. This includes an additional €32 million allocated following my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The first phase of the Schools Photovoltaic (PV) Programme launched in November 2023 to over 1600 schools. It will provide eligible schools with 6 kWp of roof-mounted solar PV, which equates to approximately 16 solar panels. The scheme will be funded from the Government’s Climate Action Fund, in line with the Government’s recognition that taking action on climate change is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commissions of Investigation (16 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: There are no Commissions of Investigation, established under the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, under the remit of the Department of Education.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The first phase of the Schools Photovoltaic (PV) Programme launched in November 2023 to over 1600 schools. It will provide eligible schools with 6 kWp of roof-mounted solar PV, which equates to approximately 16 solar panels. Since the launch of the first phase of the Schools PV Programme late last year, my Department has had a very positive response to the scheme, with over 1500 schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (15 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: Please find attached requested data. Please note enrolment data is taken from the Post-Primary Online Database. All enrolments are as per the census date, the 30th of September, in each academic year. The enrolments for 2024/25 will available after the October returns. ">Enrolment Numbers

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the state examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Parental Leave (15 Oct 2024)

Norma Foley: The purpose of Parental Leave is to allow a teacher a period of unpaid leave to care for their child. In line with the provisions of the Parental Leave Act (as amended), a teacher may avail of Parental Leave in blocks of at least one week up to a maximum of 26 weeks. Each period of Parental Leave must be a minimum duration of 7 consecutive days including weekends, school closures and days...