Results 101-120 of 162 for 5 million speaker:Norma Foley

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (8 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: ...and its agencies to ensure those who may require the provision of therapy or counselling are referred on to the appropriate clinical services for intervention and support. I announced in the budget, an additional 54 educational psychologists to provide services to special schools and special classes as part of budget 2023. I also announced in the budget that €5 million will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (25 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: ...supports for young people, including around increased awareness, promoting help-seeking behaviour and sign-posting to the wide range of available services. I am pleased to confirm that we will invest more than €5 million in piloting a programme of counselling supports for primary school students. Details of this pilot will be made available in due course. This will serve to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: ...and its agencies to ensure those who may require the provision of therapy or counselling are referred on to the appropriate clinical services for intervention and support. I announced in the budget, an additional 54 educational psychologists to provide services to special schools and special classes as part of budget 2023. I also announced in the budget that €5 million will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: ...know it is an area of specific interest to him and the committee. I was very keen to progress it and conscious that this type of support is not available in primary schools at present. This €5 million gives us this opportunity and we have begun the work as to how it will be rolled out and how we will work it through and pilot it in primary schools with an opportunity to roll it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Welfare Service (11 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: ...inequalities in education access, participation and outcomes. There are currently 122 school completion projects with local management committees. The 2022 allocation for the programme is €26.9 million and additional funding will be provided later this year to allow new DEIS urban primary and post-primary schools to access the SCP service. At present, management of the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: ...supports for young people, including around increased awareness, promoting help-seeking behaviour and sign-posting to the wide range of available services. I am pleased to confirm that we will invest more than €5 million 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...

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: Energy Prices (22 Feb 2022)

Norma Foley: ...Dept. of Education) also assists schools reduce their energy consumption and empowers participating schools and pupils to learn the benefits of sustainability. www.energyineducation.ie. Typically savings of between 5 to 10% are identified through low and no cost measures, while some schools participating have identified potential savings of up to 15 % or more. Furthermore my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Feb 2022)

Norma Foley: ...the Deputy that the school to which he refers applied under the Multi Annual Summer Works Scheme under category 9 Fabric defects. As you are probably already aware, I announced funding of €65 million for the approval of 497 projects under the 2022 Summer Works Scheme on 24th January 2022.   307 of these projects were at primary level involving mechanical works...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sustainable Development Goals (10 Feb 2022)

Norma Foley: ...884 schools in the DEIS Programme - 687 Primary and 197 Post Primary, serving over 180,000 pupils. This represents approximately 20% of the overall school population. The total Department spend on DEIS in 2021 was over €150 million, which includes over €26 million for the School Completion Programme (SCP). The DEIS programme provides for smaller class sizes and other supports...

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: Schools Building Projects (25 Jan 2022)

Norma Foley: ...during Covid-19, published by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre November 2021. To provide additional support in the context of Covid-19 the payment of a minor works grant totalling €45m for primary schools and special schools, plus a once-off Covid-19 minor works funding of €17 million for post-primary schools, was issued in December 2021. All schools in the free...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: ...to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff.  I understand the need for improved capitation funding and I am pleased that budget 2020 has been able to provide for a further 2.5% increase in standard capitation funding for primary and post-primary schools that applied from the start of the 2020/21 school year. This builds on the 5% increase in capitation announced in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Nov 2021)

Norma Foley: ...of other grants including Book Grants, Programme grants etc.  I understand the need for improved capitation funding and I am pleased that budget 2020 has been able to provide for a further 2.5% increase in standard capitation funding for primary and post-primary schools that applied from the start of the 2020/21 school year. This builds on the 5% increase in capitation announced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Nov 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: 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: School Staff (14 Oct 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 121 and 122 together. 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...

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: 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...