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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department published details of Summer Provision 2020 – Reconnecting with Educationincluding a programme for children with complex special educational needs. The programme is a significant expansion on the July Provision programme of previous years with the eligibility criteria widened to include approximately 9,000 additional primary aged children with complex needs. The programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: The issue referred to by the Deputy is under consideration by officials in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Qualifications Recognition (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: The requisite funding of these courses is a matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Department has no role in this regard. The Department understands that the Deputy has submitted a similar question on the funding of these courses to the Department of Health and that Department has, in turn, asked the HSE to respond directly to him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills. The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. 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 over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: The Deputy may be aware that the project to which he refers has been devolved to Dublin & Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB) for delivery. My Department is fully aware of the need to urgently progress this project. However, it is of the utmost importance that the final outcome will be the correct one for both the school authority and the pupils. In that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware that the project to which he refers has been devolved to Dublin & Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB) for delivery. DDLETB have submitted revised proposals in respect of the approved building project at the school in question. These proposals are currently being considered by my Department and my officials will be in contact with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: My officials contacted the awarding authority regarding the student grant assessment for the student in question. The awarding authority has advised that the student in question submitted an application for a student grant on 29 April 2020. It was advised within the application that the student's father had inherited a house in 2019 thus resulting in the student's application being refused...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: Under the Student Grant Scheme, grant assistance is available to eligible students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the terms and conditions of funding, including those relating to residency, means, nationality and previous academic attainment. The decision on eligibility for student grant applications is a matter for the centralised grant awarding authority,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department published details of Summer Provision 2020 – Reconnecting with Education including a programme for children with complex special educational needs. The programme is a significant expansion on the July Provision programme of previous years with the eligibility criteria widened to include approximately 9,000 additional primary aged children with complex needs. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Standards (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: Following the school closure in March 2020, my Department published a range of guidance to assist schools and teachers in ensuring continuity of teaching and learning for students as well as supporting their well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. This guidance aimed, inter alia, to ensure regular engagement of students in lessons, tasks and learning experiences across the range of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: I am aware of the challenges that are being encountered in the English language education sector and the substantial impact that the Covid-19 outbreak has had on its students, teachers and providers. As part of the response to the pandemic, my Department established a specific Working Group for this sector. This group is comprised of representatives of relevant Government Departments and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: The national co-ordination group for tertiary education, which includes representatives from the Department, institutions, and providers, is meeting regularly to discuss key issues. A working group has been established to examine connectivity issues impacting on tertiary education. The group’s key aims are to identify connectivity challenges in relation to broadband, data, networks and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: Schools have been notified of the arrangements for the allocation of SNA support in respect of students in mainstream classes for 2020/21. The arrangements include the following provisions: - 2019/20 mainstream class SNA allocations will be frozen, from the date of issue of Circular 0030/2020, and will automatically roll over into the 2020/21 school year. This means that no school will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 456 and 457 together. The new school building for the project to which the Deputies refer is over 95% complete. There continues to be a very close engagement between Westmeath County Council (to whom the project has been devolved for delivery) and its design team, the Department of Education and Skills and the contractor in relation to getting the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department received an application, from the school in question, for capital funding and was given approval in principle to submit costs for interim accommodation. Upon assessment by my officials, it was found that the school will have sufficient permanent accommodation on site to cater for their enrolments and the approval in principle for interim...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department published details of Summer Provision 2020 – Reconnecting with Education including a programme for children with complex special educational needs. The programme is a significant expansion on the July Provision programme of previous years with the eligibility criteria widened to include approximately 9,000 additional primary aged children with complex needs. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: History at Junior Cycle aims to enable students to develop the necessary conceptual understanding, disciplinary skills and subject knowledge to investigate the actions of people in the past and to come to a deeper understanding of the human condition. Students also come to see the world, and their place in it, from an historical perspective; and understand how the people and events of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department are currently carrying out periodic checks in a number of schools, including the school referred to by the Deputy, on the fire safety systems to ensure that the required ongoing maintenance of these systems is being kept up to date. The Department continues to liaise with the School Principal in order to keep the school updated if further works...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: There were circa 200 projects on site in early 2020. In line with National Public Health announcements by Government, all construction sites in relation to the education sector ceased in March 2020. The construction sector has been re-opening on a gradual and phased basis since Monday 18 May. It will take time to remobilise and see the impact the of new working arrangements. It is too early...