government department

Department of Education and Youth

FOI Requests — 2031 requests

  • Received
    Decided 22 December 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0539
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copies of any correspondence between the INTO General Secretary and the Minister regarding vaccines for primary school children, antigen testing in primary schools

  • Received
    Decided 22 December 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0540
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copies of any correspondence between parents of primary school children and the Minister regarding vaccines for primary school children, antigen testing in primary schools

  • Received
    Decided 22 December 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0507
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Correspondence between the ETB section of the Department of Education and ETBs, related to the RTE programme broadcast in July

  • Received
    Decided 21 December 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0551
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copies of any correspondence sent to the Minister by parents of primary school children, re the decision announced that masks will be mandatory for primary school children

  • Received
    Decided 21 December 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0538
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    All documentation sent to the Department of Education from the HSE and Department of Health on how schools and principals should handle contact tracing and Covid-19 outbreaks in schools. Timeline: 1 August - 22 November 2021

  • Received
    Decided 16 December 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0535
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records related to school transport

  • Received
    Decided 15 December 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0534
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Education and Youth

    The name of the organisation relating to question 301 dated the 4th November 2021 from Chair of the Education Committee

  • Received
    Decided 14 December 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0529
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Education and Youth

    All signed Certificates of Assurance (or equivalent) from 2015 to 2020 inclusive as per DPER Circular 13/2014 supplied to the Department of Education by the National Parents Council Post Primary.

  • Received
    Decided 14 December 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0533
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Education and Youth

    records of meetings held between the Department of Education and the Directors of NPC-PP

  • Received
    Decided 14 December 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0530
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Regarding the most recent Junior Cycle curriculum reform of mathematics

  • Received
    Decided 14 December 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0479
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    List of contractors currently delivering the School Transport Grant scheme in the Dublin area

  • Received
    Decided 13 December 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0531
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records relating to temporary accommodation for the primary school Booterstown/Blackrock

  • Received
    Decided 11 December 2021
    Handled outside of FOI
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0504
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    A copy of any submission, memo, report, or other such overview/review or discussion document prepared for either the minister or the secretary general with regard to school phobia or anxiety around return to school among children

  • Received
    Decided 11 December 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0472
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    TheOut of the Shadows report conducted on behalf of the Department of Education

  • Received
    Decided 10 December 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0416
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records of assessments that have been done in relation to the capacity in primary and post-primary schools in the Ranelagh and Milltown area

  • Received
    Decided 25 November 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0490
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    All correspondence between the Department of Education and the Department of Children relating to the transfer back of policy responsibility for school attendance to the Department of Education between January 1 this year to July 18

  • Received
    Decided 24 November 2021
    Handled outside of FOI
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0501
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Departmental organisational structure detail

  • Received
    Decided 24 November 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0497
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copy of the Service Level Agreements with BeLonGTo?

  • Received
    Decided 24 November 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0463
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    A copy of all internal briefings documents, advisory papers, policy documents, memos, notes, or explanatory documents relating to Incremental Credit received by the Minister or her officials from January 2020 to present

  • Received
    Decided 24 November 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0451
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Information on the costs associated with transporting children with SE needs

  • Received
    Decided 23 November 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0450
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records regarding trustees of Carndonagh Community School

  • Received
    Decided 22 November 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0493
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Correspondence between the Department of Education, and primary and secondary schools in Ireland, since August 2021 to October 22, 2021, regarding concerns about COVID-19 outbreaks in the school and raising the option of home-based learning

  • Received
    Decided 22 November 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0442
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copies of any correspondence between the Department of Education and the board of management at RASP (Laneview Learning Centre) regarding funding provided by the Department / funding reviews, or governance concerns, between 1 June 2019 and 31 December 2020

  • Received
    Decided 22 November 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0443
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copies of any correspondence between Minister Foley and RASP (Laneview Learning Centre) between June 2020 and December 2020 re funding

  • Received
    Decided 19 November 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0514
    Requester Type Oireachtas/Public Representatives
    Department of Education and Youth

    A table of the number of primary schools that are currently operating within temporary accommodation, the names and locations of these schools, and the length of time each school has been in temporary accommodation

  • Received
    Decided 19 November 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0481
    Requester Type Oireachtas/Public Representatives
    Department of Education and Youth

    A breakdown of the spend on temporary accommodation, prefabs and former education buildings in County Wicklow

  • Received
    Decided 18 November 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0486
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records regarding school site at Knocklyon

  • Received
    Decided 17 November 2021
    Handled outside of FOI
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0468
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    The number of investigations initiated by your HR Department under the CS Code of Discipline and the nature of the allegations that gave rise to these investigations

  • Received
    Decided 16 November 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0498
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records regarding Post Primary Voluntary Redeployment, over the years 2015- 2020 inclusive

  • Received
    Decided 15 November 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0503
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Education and Youth

    The overall cost per pupil for postrimary pupils to attend school

  • Received
    Decided 15 November 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0482
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records of discussions between officials as A/SEC level and above and Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding Budget 2022

  • Received
    Decided 15 November 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0452
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records reggarding the governance of the NPC-PP

  • Received
    Decided 11 November 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0512
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copy of the following document 'Guidelines for the enrolment of Children with specific learning disability' (June 1998)

  • Received
    Decided 11 November 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0502
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    The amount spent on pay for substitute teachers for primary, and separately, secondary schools since 2018

  • Received
    Decided 10 November 2021
    Handled outside of FOI
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0466
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Education and Youth

    Information relating to the HR & Payroll systems used by each organisation or department within the Department of Education

  • Received
    Decided 29 October 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0453
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copies of all records held referring or relating to the issuing of a specific tweet by the department

  • Received
    Decided 29 October 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0404
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records from Dept of Education regarding the school location for post primary school Booterstown/Blackrock

  • Received
    Decided 22 October 2021
    Handled outside of FOI
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0395
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Correspondence with all third parties, including at diplomatic and government level, about the teaching and curriculum formulation of both Chinese and Japanese as secondary school subjects since 2018

  • Received
    Decided 22 October 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0448
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Education and Youth

    1: Number of children put on reduced hours in special schools and classes 2: Number of children suspended in special schools and classes 3: Number of children expelled in special schools and classes

  • Received
    Decided 22 October 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0393
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Correspondence between the Department of Education and the Department of Public Expenditure relating to school transport scheme costs

  • Received
    Decided 21 October 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2020-0564
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copies of minutes of meetings held with GLEN and associated records

  • Received
    Decided 19 October 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0478
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records regarding mask wearing in schools

  • Received
    Decided 19 October 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0435
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Correspondence between the Department of Education and the Christian Brothers re the transfer of land as part of the redress scheme for institutional abuse, in the last 12 months

  • Received
    Decided 18 October 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0439
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Education and Youth

    Record of all correspondence regarding the funding of the National Parents Council Post Primary

  • Received
    Decided 18 October 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0431
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    The total amount of carbon dioxide monitors being sent to all schools (primary and secondary) to deal with the Covid pandemic, and the total cost of them

  • Received
    Decided 15 October 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0423
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    For year 2019 to present all available financial and budget information relating to school:C.B.S. Primary TraleeClounalour, Tralee, Co. Kerry

  • Received
    Decided 15 October 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0422
    Requester Type Oireachtas/Public Representatives
    Department of Education and Youth

    Records of the reports referenced in a Parliamentary Question to the Department of Education (reference 44307/21) concerning the demographic projections in the school planning area Drumcondra_Marino_Dublin 1

  • Received
    Decided 15 October 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0388
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Briefing material prepared for the Minister for Education in relation to the policy document 'Planning for reopening schools in line with the roadmap for reopening society and business' published on June 12, 2020

  • Received
    Decided 14 October 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0420
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    Copies of any complaints from parents or teachers, sent to the Minister/Dept about children missing school due to Covid19 contact tracing or testing, from Aug 1st 2021 to present

  • Received
    Decided 13 October 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DES-FOI-2021-0421
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Education and Youth

    All written representations made to the Department by members of the public on the issue of religion in schools