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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I do not disagree with the Deputy. It is important for the Department to have an independent assessment of the work of DEIS and then we will have an opportunity to see where we can go forward. The OECD Strength through Diversity: Education for Inclusive Societies project is currently engaged in a review. It has been here, and was here last summer. It is reviewing the entire DEIS area. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am not in any way suggesting that the Minister does not appreciate the severity of the issues at hand. I have shared stories of my time teaching. The stories of people now on the front line are harrowing. We are losing children because of interventions which could take place and which, as has been acknowledged, would make the difference. It is very upsetting and very emotional to speak...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome the DEIS initiative for schools in areas with the highest deprivation, which is really important. However, I see this even in County Carlow in schools that I am working with now. For example, some of the schools have hot meals but they have no funding for snacks or breakfast. The supports are vital. There is the added struggle for the same students to access the public health...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I really believe there is unanimity in the Chamber on the value and importance of DEIS and on the difference that DEIS makes to the life of the student. The DEIS programme has provided a range of supports, such as reduced class sizes, additional resources, school completion and home-school-community liaison officers. Very importantly there are two things. There are schools in DEIS whose...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Questions Nos. 67 to 75, inclusive, taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are almost out of time. Deputy Clarke will not have the full time for this question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (16 Apr 2024)

Teaching Qualifications

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to remove the Catholic certificate that is required to teach in most schools in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16253/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I ask the Minister if she plans to remove the Catholic certificate that some schools require of teachers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: The certificate of religious education is required as a condition of employment in Catholic schools. As an employment matter, it does not fall within my Department’s remit. Some of the higher education institutions offer an optional certificate in religion programme that is separate from the bachelor of education. The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I do not want to look at this from the perspective of multidenominational schools. That is a very valid conversation for another day. However, teachers should be hired on their skills, their ability, their experience and their qualifications to actually impart learning to the students in their classrooms. As there is a constitutional right for a learner to opt out of religion, why is this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Regarding the point the Deputy raised, it is not a requirement for registration with Teaching Council. There is no requirement for any religious certificate. It is not a requirement for entry to any teaching college. However, section 37(1) of the Employment Equality Act 1998, as amended, requires relevant employers in schools with a religious ethos to show that any favourable treatment of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: Requirements for school places are kept under ongoing review in the context of available information on population, enrolments and residential development activity. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, the Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas. A geographical information system is used to analyse data drawn from a range of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I visited the Carrigtwohill second level school recently where the Minister turned the sod a while back. It is absolutely magnificent and amazing. It did take 12 years to open from the time the initial decision was made to build it. Has the Minister seen the two-year progress report on the Cork county development plan that was published last Friday?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I thank the Deputy. Where demographic data indicates that additional school places are required, the delivery of such additional provision is dependent on the particular circumstances of each case and may be provided through a variety of different circumstances. This could include utilising existing unused capacity, which I know, as the Deputy said, is not an easy thing to do in east Cork...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I would be interested to know if she could forward to me information on the school planning areas. She mentioned there are 314 of them, and I ask her to forward the details of the east Cork one to me at some stage. We know that many schools now have got extensions to extensions, and they are at capacity. My concern is that in five, six or ten years'...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: To be fair, as the Deputy will appreciate, I know this area and I am aware that it is growing. I also know that, to be fair, there has been inordinate and richly deserved investment from the Department into this area. We have seen this across a whole variety of schools, whether this concerns the Carrigtwohill post-primary school, St. Colman's Community College, the CBS and St. Mary's in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Question No. 65 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Disadvantaged Status

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposal to introduce a DEIS plus scheme for the most acutely disadvantaged schools in the country. [16367/24]