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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: The Constitution of Ireland acknowledges the family as the primary and natural educator of the child and sets out the rights and duties of the State in the matter of education. The Constitution makes explicit that the State does not oblige parents to send their children to any particular type of school. Parents are free to provide education in their homes, in private schools, or in schools...

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

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is engaging directly with the school in question and recently undertook a site visit to the school. As indicated to the school, my Department will be in further contact with the school authority when the outcome of the site visit has been considered.

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

Helen McEntee: The school to which the Deputy refers submitted an application for funding under the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) for a fabric defect project works, relating to testing and remediation of mica related issues with the school building. The purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide funding specifically for unforeseen emergencies. It does so by ensuring the availability of...

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

Helen McEntee: I am glad to inform the Deputy that the teacher referred to has been placed on the correct payscale with effect from 10th October 2024 . Any arrears due are scheduled to issue to the teacher on 27th March 2025. The payment of newly qualified teachers at the qualified rate for the sector they are teaching in depends on notification being received by the payroll section. Notification in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: I would like to thank the Deputy for his question regarding access to the Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS). I have made enquiries in relation to the pupil referred to and I understand that the pupil has been prioritised for referral to NEPS and the process will commence shortly.

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

Helen McEntee: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of surplus permanent teachers to other schools where vacancies exist. Ensuring efficiency in the annual redeployment processes is significant in terms of managing the overall teacher numbers. At Post-Primary level, following discussions between the relevant stakeholders, a voluntary redeployment scheme...

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

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department has received an application for capital funding under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school authority in question for modular accommodation for 2 special education classrooms. The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that the number of exemptions from the study of Irish granted at primary and post primary level over the last five years is as follows: Primary: Year New Irish Exemptions Granted SEN Coming from abroad Total Irish Exemptions in place Total Primary school enrolment Percentage of pupils holding an exemption...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that all children educated in Ireland are expected to have the opportunity to study Irish to an appropriate standard and are encouraged to study the language and achieve a level of personal proficiency that is appropriate to their needs and ability. The only circumstances in which an exemption from the study of Irish can be granted are those set out in Section 2.2....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: I can inform the Deputy that currently, there are four modules on Irish Sign Language (ISL) available as part of the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme. This course introduces students to ISL and aims to develop their expressive and receptive communication skills. The course also develops awareness and appreciation of the Irish deaf community and its culture. The Department wishes to...

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

Helen McEntee: The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning - Stage 2(b) Detailed Design, where the design team secure the statutory approvals and prepare the suite of tender documents. The project brief is to provide a new replacement school building, and all associated site works to accommodate a Long-Term Projected...

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

Helen McEntee: All primary schools, including special schools, and post-primary schools must report annually on student non-attendance in primary and post-primary schools at an aggregated level. This data is collected by Tusla Education Support Service (TESS). Schools make two returns to TESS, the Annual Attendance Report (AAR) and the School Absence Report (SAR). This information is available on the...

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

Helen McEntee: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Mar 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 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 Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: My Department has a robust forward planning process which considers population and enrolment data. Analysis of the Dublin 15 area indicates that there is sufficient post primary school capacity to cater for the existing population. One relevant indicator is that there are more first year places available in the existing post primary schools than there are sixth class pupils living in Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: The information in respect of aegis bodies, within the scope of the Deputy’s question, is not held by my Department. Aegis bodies have been provided with the question and have been advised to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: My officials confirmed that no correspondence has been received within the scope of your question. State board appointments are typically made via the Public Appointments Service (PAS). PAS routinely stipulate the skill set required for service on individual boards in specific information booklets. Information booklets, developed with input from the Chair, detail the skills, competencies...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: The information in respect of aegis bodies, within the scope of the Deputy’s question, is not held by my Department. Aegis bodies have been provided with the question and have been advised to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (19 Mar 2025)

Helen McEntee: The information in respect of aegis bodies, within the scope of the Deputy’s question, is not held by my Department. Aegis bodies have been provided with the question and have been advised to respond directly to the Deputy.