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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: Of the 3,963 schools (3,240 primary and 723 post-primary) in the State, 405 schools (280 primary and 125 post-primary) are currently using or partially using rented accommodation.  The date of individual rentals ranges from 2000 to 2020 and a breakdown of the school by County is below. Breakdown of schools by county ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that details of school enrolments for 2019 are available on my Department's website . Enrolment information for the 2020 school year is not yet available. Regarding school enrolment, it is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an enrolment policy in accordance with the Education Act 1998.  In schools where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 492 and 493 together.   I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department does not hold information in the format requested.  In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System, using data from a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded the Deputy's query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Nov 2020)

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 Accommodation (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 501 and 535 together. As the Deputy may be aware, my Department has had significant engagement with an Irish-medium school patron in relation to its proposal for a Gaelcholáiste under its patronage to also have a campus in County Louth. The proposal does not involve the establishment of a new school but rather an additional campus of an existing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The building project referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme which tenders to pre-established frameworks of D&B contractors.   My Department is currently in the process of establishing a Framework of Design and Build Contractors to which Design and Build projects can be tendered....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The building project referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme which tenders to pre-established frameworks of D&B contractors. My Department is currently in the process of establishing a Framework of Design and Build Contractors to which Design and Build projects can be tendered. Once this framework...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers has been devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Educational Training Board (KWETB). I can confirm that a design team to deliver this project has been appointed by the ETB in that respect. KWETB has confirmed that the design team is preparing the Stage 1 report (preliminary design) and this process is nearing completion. While at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that Level 5 restrictions do not apply to the Education sector and on this basis any prior commitment or agreement between a school authority and a third party should remain in place.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2019/2020 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including over 14,200 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: Caranua is in the process of winding down.  Operational matters including the number of applications on hand and Caranua’s plan to have all outstanding applications completed by the end of 2020 are being dealt with by Caranua. Caranua have written to the Public Accounts Committee regarding their transitional arrangements. This correspondence will be published in the usual manner.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: Applications from survivors are dealt with by a team of application advisors who work closely with survivors to try and deliver on their identified needs. Where a survivor is unhappy with the outcome of an application, he/she has access to an appeals system.As of 31 October 2020, there were 7 appeals outstanding.  Monthly statistics on the number of appeals are published on my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: Section 7 (1) of  Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 provides for the Board to evaluate the effectiveness of approved services in meeting the needs of former residents.  Caranua, with the approval of the former Minister for Education, entered into a contract with Dr John Weafer to undertake an independent evaluation to - Evaluate whether the objectives of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Interdepartmental Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I understand that the interdepartmental committee will be reconvened before the end of the year.  As well as my Department, membership is drawn from Departments where the remit is to provide for services for people, e.g., the Department of Health, the Department of Employment and Social Protection, the Department of Justice, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department...