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- 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]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister will know that I have raised this next matter probably more than any other issue in my capacity as the Labour Party's spokesperson on education. I refer to the need for a new designation of what is called DEIS plus for the most acutely disadvantaged schools. It is an initiative that was started in Dublin 17, in schools in Tallaght and Ballymun. The estimate is that about 100...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)
Norma Foley: The DEIS programme is a key policy initiative of the Department to address specifically concentrated areas of educational disadvantage at school level. The Department now spends over €180 million annually providing additional supports to just under 1,200 schools in the DEIS programme. This includes an additional €32 million allocated following the announcement to extend the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: When I raised this matter before, the Minister said there would be no OECD review of the DEIS programme until the second quarter of this year. This is why I have been relatively patient in trying to find out if the Minister will listen to what the principals have said. The Minister has said she has met them. The need in these schools is absolutely profound. Making one child out of every...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank both Deputies. The NCSE has confirmed the need for special classes in the area, and it is working with Department to identify suitable locations. There are 14 special classes in Ballincollig already. I very much welcome and think it is really positive that the schools want to provide these services for children in the area. We are open to more coming into it, and how that is...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (16 Apr 2024)
Education Schemes
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (16 Apr 2024)
Marian Harkin: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no counsellor is available to a school in north Leitrim under the Counselling in Primary Schools pilot (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16346/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (16 Apr 2024)
Marian Harkin: Why, after nearly one year into a two-year pilot programme entitled Counselling in Primary Schools, no counsellor is available to schools in the north Leitrim area, even though Leitrim is one of the counties in the pilot area? I have sent the Minister details of one of the schools. Obviously, I do not want the name of the school to be mentioned because of confidentiality but it is one of a...