Results 121-140 of 162 for 5 million speaker:Norma Foley

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (6 Oct 2021)

Norma Foley: ...facilitate measurements in a wide range of locations in schools including ASD classrooms. Deliveries of CO2 monitors to schools commenced in the third week of August. In total, it involves over 35,000 CO2monitors being distributed to primary and post-primary schools with an estimated cost of €4 million. Over 28,000 CO2monitors have been distributed to schools to date, meaning that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (23 Sep 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 in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Flood Risk Management (22 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: ...a viable, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable flood relief scheme for Galway city. The Coirib go Cósta - Galway City Flood Relief Scheme has a preliminary total project budget estimate of €9.5 million and has the objective of protecting more than 940 properties from tidal and river flooding. Among the areas of Galway city that will be protected are the Long Walk,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (9 Sep 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 551 to 554, inclusive, together. The importance of good ventilation is an important aspect of public health advice on managing Covid-19 risks and this led to the establishment of an Expert Group by the Department of Health. A sub-group of the main Expert Group focussed exclusively on the issue of improving and monitoring ventilation in schools and this group...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (1 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: ...of €20m has been made available to support the implementation of the Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme, which forms part of the overall implementation of the Policy on Gaeltacht Education. The 105 primary schools and 29 post-primary schools participating in the scheme receive a range of additional supports and resources. Due to the unprecedented school closures resulting from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (1 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: ...poor or where some students with additional needs found it difficult to engage in online learning. The subject of associated costs was not explored. My Department will spend over €150million on supports for schools under the DEIS programme in 2021. Included in this, is funding in the region of €16.2 million which is provided to schools in the form of a DEIS grant. In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (1 Jul 2021)

Norma Foley: ...of an extensive review of the DEIS programme, which involved consultations with all relevant stakeholders. In the 2020/21 school year there are 887 schools in the DEIS Programme serving 185,000 pupils (689 primary and 198 post primary). This includes 79 schools, who had the highest concentrated levels of disadvantage, were added to the DEIS Programme for the first time from September...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: ...in the aftermath of the publication of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (the “Ryan Report”). While the total cost of the State’s response will be in the region of €1.5 billion, the amounts offered by congregations total €480.6 million. Some €125 million of the €128 million provided for under the 2002 Indemnity...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (17 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: ...our children and school staff could attend school safely. On 27 July 2020 I published ‘Reopening Our Schools: The Roadmap for The Full Return to School’, supported by a funding package of €375 million with this funding being supplemented over the course of the academic year. The safe return to schools in September 2020 involved approximately 1 million students and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Library Services (15 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: ...reinvestment in our primary and post-primary education system. Building on the initiatives set out in the Programme for Government the budget for the Department of Education is €8.9 billion in 2021, an increase of €410 million or some 5% on 2020. The Budget includes an additional allocation of €226 million which is being provided to schools to meet costs relating...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (15 Jun 2021)

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 €17.1 million in 2020 to all of these schools. School book rental schemes have an important role to play in reducing the cost of school books for parents and in order to support the establishment of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sustainable Development Goals (18 May 2021)

Norma Foley: ...education, (4.1 and 4.3) - increasing youth and adults who have skills for employment and entrepreneurship (4.4) - gender disparities are eliminated and equal access to all levels of education (4.5) - all youth and substantial proportion of adults achieve literacy and numeracy (4.6) - all learners acquire skills, knowledge to promote sustainable development (4.7)  1. National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (1 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: ...is the main policy initiative of my Department of Education to address educational disadvantage at school level. In the 2020/21 academic year there are 887 schools in the DEIS Programme serving over 185,000 pupils - 689 Primary and 198 Post Primary. My Department’s spend on DEIS in 2021 is over €150million, which includes over €26 million for the School Completion...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (24 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: .... The stages reflect the Capital Works Management Framework developed by the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform. The stages and indicative timelines are as follows: Stage 1 – Preliminary Design(5 to 6 months).  The Preliminary Design stage includes reviewing all information provided as part of the Project Brief.  Establishing and analysing all site factors...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...by Tusla. The Revised Estimate for Vote 26 provides for a net allocation of €8.644 billion, representing a gross allocation of €8.961 billion reduced by appropriations-in-aid of some €300 million. This represents an increase in gross expenditure of some €250 million, or 3%, over the 2020 allocation. I made the point previously to the committee that a...

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 (3 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 417, 420, 421, 427, 430, 431, 436, 440, 473, 494, 503, 516 and 524 together. The Deputy will be aware that, on the 1st March 2021, I announced a package of measures to tackle educational disadvantage. This announcement includes a one point reduction in class size from 22:1 to 21:1 in Urban Band 1 vertical schools and 20:1 to 19:1 in Urban Band 1 junior...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Norma Foley: ...gone into schools over the past two years or so. There are two types of capitation funding, namely, funding for the day-to-day running of schools and the ancillary grant. Last year, there was a 2.5% increase in the capitation budget, which followed a 5% increase in 2019. In addition to that increase, significant funding was poured into schools to cover all the additional measures that...

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.

Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Norma Foley: ...It is for all of these reasons that Government and the Department of Education have invested heavily in schools to support them throughout this pandemic. In total, a package in excess of €437 million has been provided to schools to support their continued operation. Funding has been provided for the employment of replacement teaching staff, special needs assistants, SNAs, and...