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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The payroll section of my Department provides a payroll service to Primary, Post Primary, Voluntary and Community Schools. The school as the employer is responsible for the timely entry of information relating to their staff to ensure that any salary adjustments are made correctly and on-time. School employers are regularly reminded of the need to enter and approve leave absences in a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department works very closely with the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) with respect to the planning for special classes at primary and post primary schools, as well as special school provision. Where there are accommodation requirements, these can be met by reconfiguration of any available accommodation, the delivery of new projects, or projects already in train, or, where,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 280 and 281 together. I propose to take PQs 280 and 281 together. The Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024, which is currently progressing through the legislative process, enables the provision of ongoing health and education supports to survivors of abuse in residential institutions. The package of health supports and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The criteria for the award of incremental credit are set out in the Department of Education and Youth’s Circulars 10/2001 for Primary teachers, and 29/2007 and 29/2010 for Post-Primary teachers. The criteria for the award of incremental credit to recognised teachers was agreed under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council (TCC). The teacher you refer to is employed in an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: Over recent budgets, additional resources have been made available to our schools, including through the delivery of thousands of extra teaching and Special Needs Assistant posts, increased capitation in schools, enhanced supports for school leadership, additional resources for special education, inclusion and wellbeing measures, reduced primary school class sizes, actions to assist teacher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: A site visit was recently undertaken to the school in question to meet with school management to plan proposed improvement works to the school building during the summer holidays 2025. This is in addition to works already carried out during the school's Easter holidays. The Department will continue to work directly with the school with a view to improving the school’s accommodation.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: Each one point reduction in the staffing schedule at primary level for DEIS and non-DEIS schools requires over 400 additional teaching posts and so a four point reduction would require in the region of 1650 posts while a five point reduction would require in excess of 2000 posts.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: 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 30 September. The staffing schedule operates in a clear and transparent manner and treats all similar types of schools equally. At primary level, teachers are allocated to schools at an average of 1...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 292 and 293 together. My Department recently approved funding for an additional 2 Mainstream Classrooms for the school referred to under the Department’s Additional Accommodation Scheme to cater for its interim accommodation needs pending the outcome of ongoing engagement with the school authority on its longer-term requirements. Since 2020, my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education and Youth is aware that costs and funding can pose a problem for schools and is constantly working to address this matter, and to enhance the financial and other supports available to schools. While not wishing to pre-empt the outcomes of any future Budget negotiations or fiscal parameters agreed by Government, the Department will continue to seek and prioritise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: Since 2020, my department has invested over €6 billion in our schools throughout the country under the National Development Plan (NDP), involving the completion of over 1,375 school building projects.? Government support for this investment, including by way of supplementary capital funding, has delivered real benefits for school communities. A recent Government decision has approved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The table below shows the number of staff in my Department, the Full Time Equivalent and the number of staff who are on a part-time work pattern. Part time work patterns vary from 30% to 95% of full time. Year Headcount FTE Count of part time staff 2022 1662 1612.80 161 2023 1888 ...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: I look forward to working with everybody on the committee in the years ahead. I thank the committee for the invitation to attend it to discuss a broad range of matters that are being advanced by my Department to meet challenges and support the delivery of a world-class education system, one that breaks down barriers and, more importantly, ensures every child has the opportunity to achieve...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Cathaoirleach is right. The last census was in 2022. The last time the scheme expanded was in 2022 when 100 schools were added to the scheme. The data was not available to the Department at the time. I hope that when we are developing a new DEIS scheme, we can look not just at what kind of resources are being provided to schools in the scheme but also at how we make sure it is as...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: Special schools receive a higher level of capitation than primary schools. There are different variations in special schools in terms of the curriculum, how it is applied and the students in the school. As capitation increases, it will naturally be possible to include capitation in our special schools as well but this is something that needs to be continuously kept under review. The reason...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Helen McEntee: This is being revised at the moment. We are engaging with the ASTI and the TUI on it. It was part of the public sector pay agreement negotiated last year and part of the next stages in that overall agreement but that is something-----