Results 1-20 of 102 for 5 million speaker:Norma Foley

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Oct 2021)

Norma Foley: As part of the COVID-19 supports provided to schools in 2020, additional funding of €41.2 million was allocated to provide primary schools with substitute staff. This funding allowed for the expansion of the Substitute Teacher Supply Panel from a pilot scheme consisting of 6 base schools to 132 Substitute Teacher Supply Panels nationwide, with almost 380 newly appointed Supply Panel...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Norma Foley: ...Programme (SCP) is a key support under my Department’s Delivering Equality of Opportunity in School (DEIS) programme. The 2021 initial allocation for the School Completion Programme was €24.686 million. In March 2021, I announced further supports to those schools catering for children and young people who are experiencing the highest levels of educational disadvantage,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (11 Feb 2021)

Norma Foley: The estimated full year cost of increasing the schools service support funding to post-primary schools in the free education scheme by €5 per pupil is circa €1.9 million.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (7 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: ...provided for the programme as part of Budget 2021 measures. The increasing of the SCP full year budget to €27m from 2022 encompassed the extension of SCP to an additional 28 schools and incorporated a 5 percent increase in budget to SCP funding overall. From September 2022, an additional €4 million (€5.9 million full year) was provided to allow access to SCP to new...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: I announced in the budget that €5 million will be invested in piloting a programme of counselling supports for primary school students. This will serve to support the very positive work which already takes place in the area of wellbeing in our schools. The details of the programme are currently being finalised.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Disadvantage (17 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: ...programme provides a targeted, equitable way to address concentrated educational disadvantage that promotes equity and has benefits for students. As part of budget 2023, I secured more than€8 million to specifically enhance school attendance, participation, and retention. I had previously allocated a 5% increase in funding for the school completion programme, and in September I...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Norma Foley: ...pandemic. Building on the initiatives set out in the programme for Government, the budget for the Department of Education and Skills will be €8.9 billion in 2021, which is an increase of €410 million, or 5%, on 2020. The budget provides for a variety of measures. The employment of an additional 1,065 mainstream and special education needs teachers will benefit our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (19 Oct 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 €150 million on the DEIS Programme in 2021, which includes some €26.07 million for the School Completion Programme. In the 2021/22 academic year there are 884 schools in the DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (21 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: As part of the budget for my Department I secured a €5 million investment for 2023 in order to pilot a programme of counselling supports for primary school students. This will serve to support the very positive work which already takes place in the area of wellbeing in our schools. My officials are currently finalising details of this programme which I hope to be in a position to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 May 2022)

Norma Foley: ...services staff. Schools also receive a range of other grants including Book Grants, Programme grants etc., as well as capital funding and direct staffing supports. Overall, schools received €564 million in capitation funding in the last academic year. In addition, under the COVID-19 response plans, a range of supports are being made available to all recognised schools in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (28 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: ...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 €16.9 million in 2019 to all of these schools. Additional funding of €1million provided under Budget 2020 was allocated to 102 Primary DEIS schools for a new pilot programme for the 2020/21...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the full staffing schedule has reduced from 26:1 to 25:1. There is unanimous agreement that this is a very positive step forward to the benefit of our schools. With regard to the DEIS schools, the Deputy is correct that there are different bands. In the junior cycle, there is a ratio of 20:1. It is 24:1 at the higher end, that is, in third, fourth, fifth and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...to previously announced one-point reduction for Senior Urban Band 1 schools from 24:1 to 23:1. It is estimated that the reduction of class size in Urban Band 1 schools will require an additional 50 teaching posts and have a full year cost in the region of €2.45 million. Having considered options on how best to support those learners with the highest levels of need, I have also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 426 and 434 together. Under Budget 2021 I have announced a general reduction in the mainstream staffing schedule to 25:1. While there has been a reduction in mainstream class size in recent years, there has not been a corresponding reduction for those Urban Band 1 DEIS schools who are already allocated a preferential staffing schedule of 20:1 for schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: After-School Support Services (27 Jan 2022)

Norma Foley: ...disadvantage at school level. In the 2021/22 academic year there are 884 schools (687 Primary and 197 Post Primary) in the DEIS Programme serving over 180,000 pupils. My Department spent over €150 million on the DEIS Programme in 2021, which included over €26 million for the School Completion Programme. Budget 2022 has allocated the largest-ever increase in funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (28 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: ...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 €16.9 million in 2019 to all of these schools. Additional funding of €1million provided under Budget 2020 was allocated to 102 Primary DEIS schools for a new pilot programme for the 2020/21...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...supports which help facilitate the continued provision of high quality and inclusive school and education systems and promote improved learning outcomes for pupils and students. Funding of €5 million is being provided for additional Educational Welfare Officers posts. It will also provide supports for the Alternative Education Assessment and Registration Service (AEARS) for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (24 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: ...of educational disadvantage policy and builds on what has already been achieved by schools who have benefitted from the additional supports available since the introduction of the DEIS programme in 2005. Funding for the DEIS programme in 2021 was over €150 million. Budget 2022 provided for an allocation of €18million for 2022 and €32million for 2023 to extend the DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: ...principal release days.One additional release day will be allocated to each school with a teaching principal with effect from 1stSeptember 2020.  This will bring the number of release days to 19, 25 and 31, depending on the size of school.  This is an increase from 14, 18 and 22 days since 2015.  In addition, a further four additional release days are allocated to schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (23 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: ...good ventilation. The provision of portable CO2monitors provides schools with the flexibility to focus their use to those rooms where most beneficial to inform strategies for optimising ventilation in the school. In excess of 35,400 monitors were delivered to Primary and Post Primary schools nationwide, between 2 and 20 for schools at primary level and between 20 and 35 for schools at...