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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department provides capitation funding to all recognised primary schools and post primary schools within the free education scheme. My Department provide funding to primary schools by way of per capita grants, subject to a minimum grant equivalent to 60 pupils. The funding arrangements for post primary schools reflect the sectoral division of the second-level system. At the core of these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department provides funding to Primary and Post-Primary schools 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, general up-keep etc. and the Ancillary/School Services Support Fund (SSSF) to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff. Schools also receive a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

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, utilising data from a range of sources including information on planned and current residential development, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. Dublin 12 is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The Early Start programme was established in 1994, and is a one-year intervention to meet the needs of children aged between 3 years and 5 years who are at risk of not reaching their potential within the school system. It involves an educational programme to enhance overall development, help prevent school failure and offset the effects of social disadvantage. Since the inception of Early...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)

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, utilising data from a range of sources including information on planned and current residential development, to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. Dublin 12 is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The Early Start programme was established in 1994, and is a one-year intervention to meet the needs of children aged between 3 years and 5 years who are at risk of not reaching their potential within the school system. It involves an educational programme to enhance overall development, help prevent school failure and offset the effects of social disadvantage. Since the inception of Early...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: This proposal would need to be examined by my Department in the context of current and future requirements for education provision for the school and the area. Any proposal submited through the school should clearly demonstrate how the future expansion of the school could be provided for if the proposed arrangement went ahead.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: Managing classroom ventilation is one of a number of prevention and control measures in place to ensure schools are safe. Practical steps for the deployment of good ventilation practices was provided to the school system in the context of re-opening for September 2020. This guidance recognises that there is no “one size that fits all” and that ventilation is best managed at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2020/21 school year there were 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: A new specification for Leaving Certificate Agricultural Science was introduced in September 2019. There has been an increase in numbers of students opting to take the Agricultural Science in recent years, with a greater proportion of students taking higher level and there is strong support for the subject. Agricultural Science is a crucial element of the science curriculum at Leaving...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: Managing ventilation is just one of a suite of public health measures in place to keep our schools safe. The Department has updated its guidance for schools on Practical Steps for the Deployment of Good Ventilation Practices in Schools. This was done at the end of May and followed on from work done centrally by an expert group that was looking at the role of ventilation in managing Covid-19....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: Early Start Units are in operation in Cork, Limerick, Dublin, Galway, Louth, Waterford and Wicklow. The full list of schools that have an Early Start Unit are listed in the table below which includes location, county and the school’s roll number. Roll No Name of School Location County 17024I Scoil Chroise Naofa Mahon...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The Early Start programme was established in 1994, and is a one-year intervention to meet the needs of children aged between 3 years and 5 years who are at risk of not reaching their potential within the school system. It involves an educational programme to enhance overall development, help prevent school failure and offset the effects of social disadvantage. Since the inception of Early...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Jul 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: Pension Provisions (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The matter to which the Deputy refers was initially raised by the pension scheme member directly with the Pension Unit of my Department on 30th June 2021. I am pleased to advise that since that date of contact, the relevant officers in the Pension Unit are actively engaging with the pension scheme member to address the issue and will continue to do so with an expectation that the case will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Jul 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The acquisition of a zoned school site at Corballis, Donabate - to accommodate a permanent school building is at an advanced stage of legal conveyancing. The project is also dependent on the landowner's submission of an SHD application, out of which the need for the school is arising. Department officials are engaging with the Landowner regarding the potential development of the site. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: School sites are zoned in statutory plans in order to cater for projected future educational requirements in a community. The timing of activating the use of a zoned school site is dependent on the pace and nature of population growth in an area. There has been significant recent population growth in the area surrounding Stocking Avenue and more growth is projected in the context of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: The school building project referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme. My Department has completed the tender process for the establishment of a new framework of contractors for the delivery of a bundle of Design and Build projects. In June 2021, the school building project referred to by the Deputy was included in a bundle of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: Please find attached information for the academic year 2020/2021 - the most recent available data. The figures are based on mainstream classes in mainstream schools and were collated from the relevant Class Size tables published on the DES website and can be found at the link below; www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Data-on-Individu al-Schools/primary/ . Local...