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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: Details of annual expenditure by my Department on capitation related grants for Primary and Post-Primary schools in the years 2009 to 2020 are provided in the table below.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a book grant to all recognised primary and post primary schools within the Free Education Scheme in order to provide assistance for books including Book Rental Schemes. Under this scheme, the Department provided funding of €17.1 million in 2020 to all of these schools. School book rental schemes have an important role to play in reducing the cost of school books...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a book grant to all recognised primary and post primary schools within the Free Education Scheme in order to provide assistance for books including Book Rental Schemes. Under this scheme, the Department provided funding of €17.1 million in 2020 to all of these schools. School book rental schemes have an important role to play in reducing the cost of school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My Department provides a book grant to all recognised primary and post primary schools within the Free Education Scheme in order to provide assistance for books including Book Rental Schemes. Under this scheme, the Department provided funding of €17.1 million in 2020 to all of these schools. School book rental schemes have an important role to play in reducing the cost of school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (15 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: In the 2020/21 school year there are 3,108 mainstream primary schools of which 689 are participating in the DEIS Programme. Each 1 point adjustment to the overall primary staffing schedule is estimated to cost in the region of €4.8m in the first year and €14.5m for the full year. Under Budget 2021 I announced a general reduction in the mainstream staffing schedule to 25:1. On...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools is the main policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. My Department will spend over €150million on supports for schools under the DEIS programme in 2021. This also includes in the region of €16 million which will be provided to schools in the form of a DEIS grant for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 762, 764 and 765 together. DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools is the main policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. In the 2020/21 academic year there are 887 schools in the DEIS Programme serving over 185,000 pupils - 689 Primary and 198 Post Primary. My Department's total spend on DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 770 to 773, inclusive, together. The criteria for the appointment of an administrative principal to schools, which are enrolment based, are set out in Appendix B of the annual staffing circular. Schools operating two Autism special classes have a reduced enrolment requirement for the appointment of an Administrative Principal. Currently, 86 schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that the property in respecting of which the Deputy is making enquiries is not in my ownership, as Minister for Education. My Department understands that neither is the property concerned registered with the Property Registration Authority. I would suggest that you make further enquiries with the patron of the school in question as they may be able to assist you with your enquiries.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: On 17 February, I confirmed that Leaving Certificate 2021 examinations would proceed, guided by public health advice, and that students will also have the alternative option of applying for grades accredited by the State Examinations Commission (SEC), to be known as SEC-Accredited Grades. This decision was taken by government to ensure for every candidate in 2021, a method to assess...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: On 17 February, I confirmed that Leaving Certificate 2021 examinations would proceed, guided by public health advice, and that students will also have the alternative option of applying for grades accredited by the State Examinations Commission (SEC), to be known as SEC-Accredited Grades. This decision was taken by government to ensure for every candidate in 2021, a method to assess...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 777, 815 and 816 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Jun 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 Staff (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: In 2012, a public service-wide review of allowances was carried out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. As a result of the review, qualification allowances were abolished with effect from 1stFebruary 2012. The Department of Education and Skills Circular 0008/2013 outlines the effect of this decision on teachers. In common with a number of job-role based allowances,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Websites (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My department is committed to making the information on its website accessible to all, regardless of ability. To this end, the department’s website is designed to follow guidelines set out by the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). The department aims to comply with Level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. In addition, a number of Triple-A checkpoints are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Websites (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: My department is committed to making the information on its website accessible to all, regardless of ability. To this end, the is designed to follow guidelines set out by the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). The department aims to comply with Level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. In addition, a number of Triple-A checkpoints are incorporated to enhance the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: The Government has always been guided by public health advice in relation to what is safe in schools. The CMO has made it very clear in his advices to Government which are published on gov.ie, that schools are low risk environments, with very little evidence of transmission within schools, and that the majority of infections of children and adolescents occurs outside the school setting. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 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 scheme is,...