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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: Departmental Bodies (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department is guided in its reporting obligations by the terms and conditions laid down by Statute, including, where appropriate, Company Law, and the requirements of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform’s 2016 document – Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies – Business and Financial Reporting Requirements. The Code of Practice sets out, inter...

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 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 estimated cost of...

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 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 scheme is operated using a...

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

Norma Foley: The Deputy will be aware that a building project for the school in question is included in my Department's school building programme. The brief for the proposed project is in the process of being finalised by my Department which when completed will then facilitate the commencement of the architectural planning process, which will include the appointment of a design team, to deliver the project.

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

Norma Foley: The campus project referred to by the deputy comprises the delivery of two new schools for the area in question. This project has been devolved to Galway and Roscommon Education & Training Board (GRETB). I am pleased to confirm that GRETB has appointed a design team for this project. The Design Team will now take the project through the various stages of architectural planning and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: I can inform the Deputy that my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary schools. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to support students, access to a NEPS psychologist for responses...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: I can inform the Deputy that my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary schools. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to support students, access to a NEPS psychologist for responses...

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

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, this project to which he refers, has been devolved for delivery to Dublin & Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB). The brief for this project is extremely complex and complicated; this resulted in a more difficult than usual and protracted process of preparation of tender documentation. I am pleased to confirm that DDLETB has advised that the...

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

Norma Foley: A detailed analysis of school enrolment data and the latest data available from Census 2016, using the HP Deprivation Index, has been carried out by members of the DEIS Technical Group. This group contains representatives of the Department’s Statistics and Social Inclusion Units, the Inspectorate and the Educational Research Centre. My Department has commenced a consultation process...

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: Schools Building Projects (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 991 and 1053 together. Following completion of the acquisition of the permanent site for the school referred to by the Deputies in May 2020, the building project for the school was assigned for delivery under my Department’s Design & Build Programme. Notwithstanding disruption to building works as a result of Covid 19 restrictions, the...

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

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that a total of €300,717.98 has been funded to this school under the Emergency Works Scheme in the last ten years.

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

Norma Foley: I would like to inform the Deputy that a total of €137,631.85 has been funded under the Emergency Works Scheme for the school in question since September 2016.

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

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is not possible for my Department to confirm the number of students that will be seeking to enrol in any given post primary school(s) as the question of enrolment in individual schools is the responsibility of the Board of Management on behalf of the school patron and my Department does not hold information in this regard. Parents are entitled to apply to...

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

Norma Foley: Since 2016, the total spend on the provision of interim accommodation for the post primary school referred to by the Deputy is €5.3m including €1.5m of expenditure related to site works for the interim accommodation which will also facilitate the construction of the permanent school building. The Invitation to Tender for the permanent post primary school issued on the 14th June...

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 Funding (27 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: An arrangement was made through An Chomhairle Leabharlanna in 1971, whereby the local authority librarians would provide services for Primary schools. At that time my Department made a grant available for this purpose based on the number of pupils enrolled in primary schools in the local authority areas. The amount of the grant payable to each local authority was based on the number of...

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

Norma Foley: In relation to the school to which the Deputy refers, the project to install additional interim accommodation for the academic year 2021/22 has commenced on site and there has been no spend to date in 2021 on this project. In relation to the school's permanent project, the Letter of Acceptance for the successful contractor issued on the 14th June 2021 and the contractor (Rhatigan ABM...

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

Norma Foley: In relation to the school to which the Deputy refers the project to install additional interim accommodation for the academic year 2021/22 is currently on site. The 2021 spend to date on this project is €731,000. In relation to the school's permanent project, the Letter of Acceptance for the successful contractor issued on the 14thJune 2021. This commences the school building...