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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The purpose of the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation. The consideration of any applications on hand for the ASA scheme form part of the Planning and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: A statement of commitments contained within my Department’s Customer Charter can be found on gov.ie at the following link: The Customer Charter underpins our approach to quality customer service and the commitments contained within this Charter set out acknowledgement and response timelines for correspondence received in the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Principals can directly contact the business units within my department through the 52 helplines and general contact numbers that are used to manage requests for information and follow up queries. Contact details for my department’s business units are detailed at gov.ie- About the Department of Education (). When publishing circulars, my department includes the direct unit contact...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Please find attached requested data . Data supplied is for academic year 2023-2024, as this is the latest year we have final enrolment data. We expect to publish final enrolment data for academic year 2024-2025 in June 2025. The primary data includes all pupils by standard in each school, please note that special pupils can also be assigned a mainstream standard by the school. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year, over 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the Free Education Scheme 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 and general up-keep, and the ancillary grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Standards (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Following the implementation of calculated grades in 2020 and the dual approach of examinations and accredited grades in 2021, two types of intervention have been implemented in recent years: adjustments to examination and assessments arrangements, and a post-marking adjustment to outcomes. This post-marking adjustment has ensured that results in the aggregate have remained the same on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Report of the Scoping Inquiry into Historical Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools Run by Religious Orders recommended the establishment of a Commission of Investigation as its principal recommendation and this has been accepted by Government. The Report of the Scoping Inquiry made a number of further recommendations and a high level Inter-Departmental Group (IDG) was convened to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the departments pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide 4 SET/Pastoral Rooms, 1 Multi-Media room, 1 Music Room, 1 Textiles Room, 1 Art Room, Project store, 3 SEN Class Base, and reconfiguration works to existing Multimedia Room to revert to 1 Mainstream Classroom. The project has been devolved for delivery to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department of Education, along with other Departments across the public service, implemented the outcome of the public service-wide review of allowances and premium payments (September 2012) by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. This meant that many allowances were no longer payable to “new entrants” including Teachers. Among the allowances that had sanction...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Oide is the national support service providing professional learning for teachers and school leaders. The Oide Leadership Team is engaged in the provision of a suite of high-quality professional learning offerings for school leaders at each stage of the leadership continuum including teacher leaders, middle leaders, and senior school leaders. The team uses a blended approach of online and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year, over 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: Entitlement to specific employment terms and conditions is determined by a number of factors, including the nature of the role to be undertaken by the individual, the statutory basis on which various terms and conditions are applied, sector-specific agreements which have been reached through established Industrial Relations mechanisms and whether the employee is directly employed by a public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: My department is leading an ambitious sustainability agenda and has progressed a wide array of measures to improve the overall sustainability of our school buildings as part of our work towards 2030 and 2050 climate targets. This performance has been recognised at both National and International level with sustainable energy awards for excellence in design, specification and delivery. My...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: As you are aware, the Department of Education has been providing a payroll service for former grant funded school secretaries with effect from 1st September 2023. The provision of this payroll service is part of a package agreed with Fórsa, the trade union representing school secretaries, following a series of engagements at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in 2022. The agreement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers has not submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for this issue, to date. The purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide funding specifically for unforeseen emergencies. It does so by ensuring the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are in need of resources as a result of an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: There are a small number of grants available to individual households which are issued by the Department of Education. The details of these grants are below. Remote Area Boarding Grant The purpose of the Remote Area Boarding Grant scheme is to give students who are disadvantaged because of their remoteness from schools an opportunity to attend school on the same basis as students not so...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year, over 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 845, 846 and 847 together. The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year, over 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Department has a significant modular accommodation programme in place to assist schools in the provision of additional capacity, including facilitating the establishment of special classes. This programme involves the use of Project Management supports which is designed to enable the accommodation to be provided as quickly as possible and help ease the administrative workload for...