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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department serves as the national contact point at EU level on matters of State Aid policy. As part of this function, my officials collate and submit the report on the application of the State Aid rules for Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI) to the European Commission. The report is submitted every two years in accordance with the State Aid rules for SGEI. These reports are...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: As Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment I consider that increasing the numbers of people with disabilities participating in the labour market represents a significant opportunity for employers and the enterprise sector. The development of policy measures and initiatives to support disability rights and inclusion fall, primarily, under the remit of my colleague the Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The EU-Mercosur Agreement is designed to cement the close political and economic relations between the EU and Mercosur countries and represents a commitment to rules-based international trade. Since formal negotiations concluded in 2019, the global trade policy landscape has changed considerably. The rise in trade nationalism, the economic impacts of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (14 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. This scheme closed on the 1st of May and the ICOB portal is not live at the moment. Analysis has been undertaken in relation to the grant scheme. A decision will be made this week and I expect to make an announcement in relation to the next steps of the ICOB...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...to students achieving their potential. Supplementing the universal supports available to all schools, the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) Programme is a key policy initiative of my Department to address concentrated educational disadvantage at school level in a targeted and equitable way across the primary and post-primary sector. In March 2022, I announced the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing arrangements for the 2024/25 school year are set out in Circular 0011/2024. There is no change in the staffing of the school referred to by the Deputy for the coming school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Norma Foley: 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 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I can assure the Deputy that the provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for my Department. As the Deputy may be aware, while there can be enrolment pressures and demand for additional school places in some areas, it is important...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

John McGuinness: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the rationale relative to the decision to withdraw the sanction for five classrooms to accommodate special needs children at a school (details supplied) and instead to offer a standalone prefabricated single classroom, completely disconnected from the existing building; if the decision was based solely on cost and method of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: In Budget 2024 over €47 million was allocated to continue implementation of the schoolbooks scheme at primary level. On the 8th May I announced details of year 2 of the Primary Schoolbooks Scheme which provides at a minimum free schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks to pupils in recognised primary and special schools. More than 563,000 pupils enrolled in approximately 3,230 primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department is not in receipt of an application for the Additional School Accommodation (or 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 needs is available...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: 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 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: 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 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils travelling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...department has invested in the region of €4.5 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 800 school building projects and with construction currently underway at approximately 300 other projects, which includes 31 new school buildings. These 300 projects currently at construction involve a total State investment of over €1.2bn. It...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 May 2024) See 6 other results from this answer

Sorca Clarke: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; and the estimated cost for these works. [21401/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Please find attached requested data. The data provided is for the 2022-2023 academic year, the latest year we have final enrolment data. The data was collated from the relevant primary and post-primary school lists which can be found at the link below. We expect to publish final data for academic year 2023-2024 in June 2024. www.gov.ie/en/collection/63363b-data-on-individual-schools/. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 May 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers on the substitute supply panel in Kilkenny and in Carlow at present; the number in 2020, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21448/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Norma Foley: In May 2023, I announced that adjustments will be made to the assessment arrangements for students due to sit State examinations in 2024. These are the same as the assessment adjustments that applied for students sitting the 2023 examinations, but updated as relevant. These arrangements were communicated to schools on 18 September 2023, and can be found at the following link:...

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