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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, are 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 School...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy of the recent Design Team appointment for the building project to which he refers. The project has been devolved for delivery to CEIST. The brief for this project is to provide a 1,000 pupil Post-Primary School with 4-class SEN Base and a 16-classroom Primary School with 1 SEN Base on a greenfield site. The Service Level Agreement (SLA) between CEIST and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I am keenly aware of the vital contribution of secretaries and caretakers within school communities and I recognise the very important work done by these staff, and the other support staff in the running of our schools. In recognition of their role, I have put special arrangements in place for this school year whereby schools will be funded to employ a replacement secretary or caretaker...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The funding that has been allocated to the Creative Schools Programme in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 is set out in the following table. Year Allocation 2019 €1,038,000 2020 €1,038,000 2021 €1,080,000 €54,090.83 has been spent to date in 2021. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department takes the recommendations 10-13 in respect of Music Education of the report entitled Na hEalaíona – Ní Cuma Leo issued by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in May 2019 very seriously. Music Generationis a National Music Education Programme that aims to transform the lives of children and young people through access to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Department has no record of a project of this nature for the school referred to by the deputy. If the deputy could provide further details in respect of the project, Department officials will re-examine accordingly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, are 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: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I am pleased to inform the deputy that the project to which he refers has already progressed through tender stage. This project was approved to go to construction on 16th June 2021, following a review of the Tender Report in the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I am very pleased to see the inclusion of a Citizens’ Assembly on the future of education in the Programme for Government. Experience internationally and here at home of citizen’s assemblies as exercises in deliberative democracy have been extremely positive. Ireland is considered a leader in the use of deliberative democracy processes, having convened three in recent years:...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education is conscious of its key role in promoting, protecting and vindicating the achievement of the key human right to education. The Department’s recently-published Statement of Strategy 2021-2023 articulates a strong focus on equality and human rights which is at the core of the high level goal to ‘ensure equity of opportunity in education and that all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disabilities Assessments (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: All substantive Memoranda for Government are required to identify, under a disability impact assessment, any difficulties or barriers that may exist or arise within a service delivery, policy or process that prevents someone with a disability from availing of that service, policy or process. The disability impact assessment is undertaken in line with the guidelines, "How to Conduct a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the deputy has been devolved for delivery to Louth County Council. I am pleased to advise that the project has very recently been approved by the Department to go to tender in that respect. Louth County Council is working closely with the design team for the project to ensure that the project can be tendered to a pre-qualified list of tenderers as soon as possible....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 114,100 children, including over 14,700 children with special educational needs, are 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...