Results 1-20 of 605 for long speaker:Norma Foley

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...the demographic demand analysis, my Department monitors planning and construction activity in the residential sector. This involves the analysis of data sources from Local Authorities and the CSO along with the engagement with local authorities and the construction sector. In this way, up-to-date information on significant new residential developments is obtained and factored into the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...space being used for purposes other than for the provision of primary education. The onus is on the Board of Management and the Patron to ensure that there is sufficient accommodation to meet the school’s long-term projected enrolment and any development which may arise in the area. In that regard, where additional accommodation is required at the school in the future, any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...between all the Stakeholders prior to the Design Team commencing Stage 1 - Preliminary Design (assessment of site and location suitability and initial sketch scheme). Dun Laoghaire ETNS has planning permission and will, along with a number of other projects with planning permission, be brought to the level of employer-led design with a Design Team assigned to do so under the...

Seanad: School Enrolments: Motion (17 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I have another commitment I have to leave for. I will come in now and stay for as long as I can for other contributions. I thank the House for the opportunity to be here. I thank Senators O'Loughlin and Byrne for proposing and seconding the motion. It gives me an opportunity to set out the range of actions being taken by the Department of Education to plan for and deliver additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, guidance provision in Ireland spans many sectors. In 2022, I established the National Policy Group on Lifelong Guidance to develop a coherent long-term strategic framework for guidance. A public consultation on lifelong guidance was held by my Department and a report on the consultation was published in August 2023. This consultation together with research carried out...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...of pay) and hold an appropriate guidance counselling qualification appropriate to the post-primary sector in line with the Programme Recognition Framework for guidance. This policy is well-settled and long-standing and is outlined in circulars 0008/2024, 0009/2024, 00010/2024 and 0044/2019. Schools are permitted however to employ persons without a route 2 qualification on a temporary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...Preparation Area, 3 Science rooms with Preparation Area, 1 Art Room, 1 Music Room,1 Multimedia Room, 1 Textile Room, 1 Home Economics Room, a 4 Classroom SEN Base, 1 SET Room and 1 user assisted WC long with conversion works to existing accommodation to provide 2 Special Education Teaching rooms and ancillary accommodation. The school also received approval for the purchase of SEN Modular...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...the demographic demand analysis, my Department monitors planning and construction activity in the residential sector. This involves the analysis of data sources from Local Authorities and the CSO along with the engagement with local authorities and the construction sector. My Department’s Planning and Building Unit also do a more granular analysis of the impact of housing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (11 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...the demographic demand analysis, my Department monitors planning and construction activity in the residential sector. This involves the analysis of data sources from Local Authorities and the CSO along with the engagement with local authorities and the construction sector. In this way, up-to-date information on significant new residential developments is obtained and factored into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...to this system. It was professionals on the ground who brought the challenges of the 2017 system to the fore and said it was not working. Out of respect to that, they were engaged with over a long period of 18 months. It is not accurate to say they were not consulted. As I said, they positively welcomed it when it was announced. We are very clear. As I said earlier, it will never...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...from a positive working relationship with both the Department of Health and the HSE. This new innovation at post-primary will be interesting as well. It will probably inform the direction on the long-term basis for post-primary level as well.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...College, and this project is designed to be delivered in 2 phases; Phase 1 will deliver accommodation for 425 students and Phase 2 will deliver the remaining accommodation to provide for a Long Term Projected Enrolment of 1000 students, at the former Magee Barracks site in Kildare. The project is currently at Stage 2(b) of Architectural Planning – Detailed Design, where all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: .../en/collection/dca316-special-education-needs-a-c ontinuum-of-support/) is the framework used by schools to identify and respond to needs. This framework recognises that special educational needs occur along a continuum, ranging from mild to severe, and from transient to long term, and that children and young people require different levels of support depending on their identified...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (9 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...marks) How the teachers and school leaders will ensure that learners will play a central role in developing and implementing the project (10 marks) The extent to which the project will sustain a long term cultural change in physical activity in teaching and learning in the school (10 marks) Details of these criteria were made available to schools in the Guidelines for Applications. ...

Death of Charlie Bird: Expressions of Sympathy (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: ...figure on RTÉ. He was a journalist who could turn up anywhere around the world, both domestically and internationally. He was a man we associated with the pursuit of justice and integrity. He had a long and distinguished career in journalism but, more than that, we remember him for, as others have referenced, his association with the Stardust tragedy. So many other causes could be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: ...Transition Year students, promoting the benefits of foreign language learning and celebrating the languages and cultural diversity within the school community. Circa. 15,000 TY students participated in the 2023/24 week long event. An increase in the number of Foreign Language Assistants appointed to post primary schools from 110 in 2016/17 to 181 in 2023/24. This will increase to 220...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: ...space being used for purposes other than for the provision of primary education. The onus is on the Board of Management and the Patron to ensure that there is sufficient accommodation to meet the school’s long-term projected enrolment and any development which may arise in the area. In that regard, where additional accommodation is required at the school in the future, any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: ...the principal. If the matter cannot be resolved informally, the school should have a formal complaints procedure that can be followed. This procedure should set out what a parent may have to do and how long it should take to deal with a complaint. The role and responsibilities of the principal and board of management should also be set out. The complaint procedures currently operated by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: .... Funding has been provided by my Department for 30 new places each year. The first cohort of 34 students from the B.Oid graduated from Marino Institute of Education in November 2023. A cohort of 56 students was taken in in 2023 on an exceptional basis as part of my Department's comprehensive plan to support the supply of teachers. Funding has been provided under the Policy for an M.Ed....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: ...College, and this project is designed to be delivered in 2 phases; Phase 1 will deliver accommodation for 425 students and Phase 2 will deliver the remaining accommodation to provide for a Long Term Projected Enrolment of 1000 students, at the former Magee Barracks site in Kildare. The project is currently at Stage 2(b) of Architectural Planning – Detailed Design, where all...