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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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: Pesticide Use (16 May 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department encourages best practice in relation to the upkeep of school property. This would include proper care and maintenance of school grounds, as well as matters relating to health & safety. The Health & Safety manual for each school should include the need to follow correct procedures on the use of various products and materials including those for the maintenance...

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

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter my Department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide a 3 classroom SEN Early Intervention extension under the Additional School Accommodation Scheme. In Q2 2023 the school authority submitted their Stage 1 report. This was forwarded to my Departments Professional and Technical team for review. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (16 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: School Transport (16 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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...

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

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide one mainstream classroom along with two SET Rooms plus Ancillary Accommodation. A Stage 1/2a report was submitted in March 2024. The submission required clarification and additional information was requested from the school which has now been...

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

Norma Foley: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved to enter the Department’s pipeline of school buildings for a project to provide 2 classroom SEN base. A Stage 2b report has been submitted and is currently being reviewed from both a technical and cost perspective in accordance with the requirements of the Public Spending Code. All projects, including this one, will undergo the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (16 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Transition Year is a valuable programme for students that offers opportunities for life skills, personal, social and academic development and experience of adult and working life. Transition Year has a unique and important value in the life of students. There is no specific funding source for schools aimed at a student's participation in a specific programme at Transition Year. A...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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 (16 May 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department is committed to providing funding to recognised primary and post-primary schools in the free education scheme by way of per capita grants. The two main grants are the Capitation grant to cater for day to day running costs such as heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance and general up-keep, and the Ancillary/SSSF grant to cater for the cost of employing ancillary services staff....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 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: Education Schemes (16 May 2024)

Norma Foley: In July 2016, the Government launched a major initiative for Dublin’s North East Inner City (NEIC) to oversee the long term, social and economic regeneration of the area. The Mulvey Report entitled “Dublin’s North East Inner City – Creating a Brighter Future” was published in February 2017 and made a number of recommendations. As part of this response, in...

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

Norma Foley: I refer to your recent correspondence to the Minister for Education, Ms. Norma Foley TD, in relation to supports for Teachers and Special Needs Assistants on foot of an assault in the course of their work. In accordance with Section 14 of the Education Act 1998, it is the duty of the Patron to appoint, where practicable, a Board of Management. The Board of Management is the body of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 May 2024)

Norma Foley: In relation to school admissions, it is the responsibility of the managerial authorities of all schools to implement an admissions policy in accordance with the Education Act, 1998 and the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018. Under the provisions of the Act, school admission policies are approved by the Patron, following consultation with staff and parents of children who are attending...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (15 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I refer to your representation on behalf of a student attending the relevant School. Under the Assistive Technology Scheme, as set out in my Department’s Circular 0010/2013, funding is provided to schools towards the cost of computers and specialist equipment, which are required for educational purposes. All equipment provided under this scheme supports children with more...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I refer to your recent correspondence to the Minister for Education, Ms. Norma Foley TD, in relation to supports for Teachers and Special Needs Assistants on foot of an assault in the course of their work. In accordance with Section 14 of the Education Act 1998, it is the duty of the Patron to appoint, where practicable, a Board of Management. The Board of Management is the body of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 May 2024)

Norma Foley: A potential property has been identified to provide permanent accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy. An architectural consultant has determined that it is feasible to develop this site and property to provide the accommodation required by the school. Given the commercial sensitivities associated with acquisitions generally I am not in a position to comment further at this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (15 May 2024)

Norma Foley: We expect to publish primary school class tables for 2023-2024 as part of our final enrolment publications in June 2024. Once the class tables have been published we will be in a position to answer the Deputy's query concerning the average class sizes for academic year 2023-2024.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (15 May 2024)

Norma Foley: The Department of Education have not entered directly into any contracts with BAM Ireland in the last 10 years, however under a frame work of Design & Build contractors established during 2020, the DoE have entered into 1 contract with a joint venture consisting of 2 Contractors in which BAM Ireland are part of the joint venture, BAM Glasgiven JV Ltd using the Public Works Contract,...