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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The planned establishment of a new primary school in 2021 to serve the Naas School Planning Area was announced in 2018 as a result of a countrywide demographic exercise. Further exercises have since been conducted on the necessity for the establishment of a number of planned new schools, including the school to serve this school planning area, taking into account a number of factors,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2020/2021 school year over 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €224.7m in 2020. The purpose of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 508, 533 and 536 together. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30th September. The staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria to an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2020/2021 school year over 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €224.7m in 2020. All children who are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2020/2021 school year over 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €224.7m in 2020. The purpose of the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The Deputy may be aware that between 2016 and 2020, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) undertook an extensive review of senior cycle programmes and vocational pathways, to include Transition Year, the Leaving Certificate Applied, Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme and the Leaving Certificate Established. The review involved a very broad range of research,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30th September. The staffing process contains an appeals mechanism for schools to submit a staffing appeal under certain criteria to an independent Primary Staffing Appeals Board. The Appeals Board...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department has agreed a Memo of Understanding with the Health and Safety Authority that reflects our shared objective of ensuring that the Return to Work Safety Protocol for addressing COVID-19 in the workplace is being implemented. In relation to school inspections, my Department’s Inspectorate lead on inspection visits to schools for the purposes of working with and advising...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The number of early school leavers is calculated officially in the Department of Education retention report published annually. The next retention report for the 2014 entry cohort (i.e. those pupils who commenced post primary education in 2014) will be published in due course. Where schools have a concern about a child’s attendance they are required to make a referral to TESS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: My aim for Budget 2022 is to continue to deliver on the commitments set out in the Programme for Government, to meet demographic and other pressures in the school sector and to support and sustain our schools, their staff and our students in the face of the ongoing significant challenges posed by COVID-19. Over recent budgets, additional resources have been made available to our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: Under the Education (Welfare) Act 2000, education is compulsory for children in Ireland from the ages of six to sixteen or until students have completed three years of post-primary education. Key considerations for my Department in this matter is our policy of inclusion. However, while my Department primarily supports mainstream schools, it does provide funding for a small number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: Temporary accommodation in schools is comprised of both rented and purchased prefabricated units. While the Department is aware that some schools are operating some classes in purchased prefabs around the country particularly in the context of the Covid19 related measures (funded by my Department and/or by the school authority), accurate information in respect of purchased prefabs is not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2020/21 school year over 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €224.7m in 2020. Planning for school transport...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the criteria for the awarding of incremental credit to registered teachers at second level schools, is set out in my Departments Circulars 0029/2007 and 0029/2010. The Circulars note the particular conditions which apply to the awarding of incremental credit for persons who may have been teaching, for a period, in less than whole time contracts, such as fixed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that the school in question applied for funding under my Departments Emergency Works Scheme for Category 2 (Life Safety Systems). This application was approved on the 7th of October and as it is a devolved project it is the responsibility of the school authority to progress the works.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application, for additional school accommodation, from the school authority in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The figures that the Deputy requested are set out in tabular form in the following table. The information is based on the annual October Returns which were submitted to the Department by Post Primary schools. 2017 2017 Number of Schools  715 Number of Schools with Students doing Higher Level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate 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: School Curriculum (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: The figures that the Deputy requested are set out in tabular form in the following link. The information is based on the annual October Returns which were submitted to the Department by Post Primary schools.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: As part of the COVID-19 supports provided to schools in 2020, additional funding of €41.2 million was allocated to provide primary schools with substitute staff. This funding allowed for the expansion of the Substitute Teacher Supply Panel from a pilot scheme consisting of 6 base schools to 132 Substitute Teacher Supply Panels nationwide, with almost 380 newly appointed Supply Panel...