Department of Education and Youth
FOI Requests — 2250 requests
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 5 March 2021Department of Education and Youth
Minutes of the the Child Protection Oversight Group meetings that took place in 2020.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 4 March 2021Department of Education and Youth
A copy of all documents,submissions, memos, minutes, briefing documents, and any subsequent correspondence and/or internal departmental communications,related to the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/67375/apple-distribution-international-ltd
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 4 March 2021Department of Education and Youth
Correspondence to and from, as well as minutes of meetings with, the Irish Primary Principals Network, September 1 2020 to December 31, 2020, as outlined in the following lobbying returns:(i)https://www.lobbying.ie/return/66414/ippn---the-irish-primary- principals-network(ii)https://www.lobbying.ie/return/61081/ippn---the- irish-primary-principals-network
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 3 March 2021Department of Education and Youth
Records re a decision to change the location for a planned secondary
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 2 March 2021Department of Education and Youth
Correspondence between Dept of Education officials and The Minister for Education Norma Foley regarding The Communications Clinic
- GrantedReceived —Decided 25 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
All correspondence during 2020 and to date in 2021 between Minister Foley and Michael Gillespie of theTeachers' Union of Ireland
- RefusedReceived —Decided 25 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Access to correspondence or minutes / briefings / emails relating to virtual meetings during 2020 between Sam Sharps of Apple Distribution International Ltd and department officials
- RefusedReceived —Decided 25 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Records regarding a proposed school site in Buncrana Co. Donegal
- GrantedReceived —Decided 22 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
1) All correspondence, briefing documents, draft briefing documents, memos, meeting notes and other records associated with the following lobbying activities and meetings:https://www.lobbying.ie/return/68293/teachers-union-of- ireland
- GrantedReceived —Decided 19 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Records relating to the virtual meeting with Apple as outlined in the following lobbying return:https://www.lobbying.ie/return/67375/apple- distribution-international-ltd
- GrantedReceived —Decided 19 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
1. The total number of pupils who attended private/fee-paying schools in each of the years 2015 to 2020 inclusive, with a breakdown by school for the 2019/2020 academic year. 2. The amount of money the Department of Education spent on salaries for teachers employed in private/fee-paying schools in each of the years 2015 to 2020 inclusive, with a breakdown by school for the 2019/2020 academic year.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 19 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Copies of any correspondence received by the department with regard to comments made by Minister Josepha Madigan linking closure of special education schools to Mother & Baby Homes. Copies of any correspondence received by the department with regard to a comment made by Minister Josepha Madigan about "normal" children when referring to special educational needs
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 15 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
All correspondence and all minutes of meetings between the Department of Education or Minister for Education and the unions INTO, FORSA, TUI and ASTI between 1/1/2021 and 20/1/2021
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 12 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Internal correspondence within the department and external correspondence between department officials and third parties about alleged sexual, physical and emotional abuse of pupils by teachers at Belvedere College
- RefusedReceived —Decided 11 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Copy of the report, Out of the Shadows, conducted on behalf of the Department of Education as part of the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021
- RefusedReceived —Decided 10 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Records re the members of the advisory committee Minister Foley refers to when she speaks of consulting all partners in Education re proceeding with Leaving Cert 21
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 8 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Correspondence from teachers, principals, parents and others involved in the education sector to the minister on this issue of reopening/closing schools (including for special needs classes and Leaving Cert students) due to Covid from January 1 to today's date.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 5 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Any correspondence receivedby the Minister for Education Norma Foley from persons who identified themselvesas parents of students, or students themselves, who attend special schools.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 4 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
A copy of all audits completed by the internal audit division in 2020.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 4 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Request for procurement records for the provision of Irish language
- GrantedReceived —Decided 3 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
Records which show or which can be compiled to answer which employees at UCC have received annual salaries in excess of the Taoiseach's from 2010 until present day.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 1 February 2021Department of Education and Youth
All records held by this department as they relate to the provision of contracts for public relations or crisis management or press work in 2020
- RefusedReceived —Decided 29 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
Any reports that have been completed for, or by, the department in relation to the extent of Covid-19 cases in schools, or any briefing notes prepared for the minister on the subject.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 27 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
Records between the department an DLRCC regarding school building
- GrantedReceived —Decided 25 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
Records relating to the costs spent on providing equipment such as computers, desks, chairs and other items in order to facilitate government employees from your Department who have been working from home since the Covid-19 pandemic began. T
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 21 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
* Correspondence between the Department of Education and the Irish Episcopal Conference since April 2019 up to the date of processing this request in relation to measures to the Schools Reconfiguration for Diversity process ; * Correspondence and/or briefing material relating to the outcomes of the initial Identification phase of the Schools Reconfiguration for Diversity process involving the 16 Education and Training Boards (ETB), in which they identified an initial pilot area within their functional area where they considered there may be unmet oncoming demand for a multi-/non-denominational school and arranging for surveys of parents of pre-school children in these areas.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 21 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
Material regarding a set of surveys that took place as part of the School Reconfiguration process in 2018 on the provision of multi- and non- denominational schools
- GrantedReceived —Decided 19 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
A copy of the questionnaire sent out to employees in relation to the employment of people with disabilities (Part 5 of the Disability Act 2005). That is the questionnaire relied on to ascertain the % of employees who have a disability
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 13 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
All correspondence between the Minister for Education Norma Foley, Secretary General of the Department of Education Sean O Foghlu, Chief Inspector Harold Hislop and Director of Operations Andrea Feeney and in relation to errors in the calculated grades system.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 13 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
Copies of all correspondence, and records of correspondence, in the year to date with Polymetrika International Inc in relation to the implementation of the Leaving Cert calculated grades system or any other service provided by the firm.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 13 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
The Policy Document used by HR (NEPS) to ascertain the starting salaries of Public Servants Transitioning to the Civil service between June 2017 to December 2020.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 12 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
Copies of all complaints made to Minister for Education Norma Foley about Covid-19 measures in schools between the following dates October 18th 2021 to November 3rd 2021 and copies of all replies to the complaints.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 7 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
Any correspondence/memos/briefings/minutes of minutes prepared for/with the Minister or Secretary general, relating to the reduction in the pupil teacher ratio in mainstream schools from June 2020 until November 3rd.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 7 January 2021Department of Education and Youth
Files, correspondence(internal and external), emails, studies, surveys, reports, conveyances andattached conditions,and minutes of meetings and telephone conversations, relating to theacquisition by DoES of the"old Scoil Phadraig' site at Altamont St., Westport, Co. Mayo
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 28 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
Information in relation to the grant previously available to assist with the cost of attending the Gaeltacht for student teachers.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 25 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
The amount that Bus Eireann have informed the Dept of Education and Skills in each month of the years 2017, 2018 and to-date in 2019 in tabular form the maintenance costs regarding to the buses that are part of School Transport Fleet.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 21 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
A copy of any report on pupil demographic demand prepared by the Department to justify plansfor aplanned 1,000-pupilpost-primary school for students from the Drumcondra, Marino and Dublin 1 areas.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 21 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
All Correspondence between the Christian Brothers and the Department of Education and Skills during the period 1st January 1998 and 31st December 1998 in relation to the setting up a compensation scheme for survivors of Institutional abuse.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 19 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
Copy of the Patron's Declaration from 2015 (or 2016) for Limerick School Project, roll number 19934L, which was submitted to the Department by the patron, Educate Together in relation to the board of management established 1st December 2015.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 17 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
Document dated 30th May 2002, prepared by the Department of Education for discussion with the Minister in advance of the proposal going to government in relation to the indemnity deal with the Congregation of Religious in Ireland.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 17 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
Internal email exchanges in the Department of in relation to a draft Memo to Government outlining the proposedterms of the Indemnity deal
- RefusedReceived —Decided 17 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
A copy of the Review and Report on the provision of discovery by the Department of Education and Science to the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 17 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
The letters of 31st January 2002, and 1st February 2002 from the Office of the Attorney General to the DOES seeking information on the negotiations with the Religious Congregations and the extent of the indemnity.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 14 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
Copies of any correspondence with the Glasnevin Trust in 2019. Details of the correspondence I'm referring to are outlined in the following lobbying return:https://www.lobbying.ie/return/48477/glasnevin-trust
- RefusedReceived —Decided 12 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
1)The details of announcements, correspondence, representations, requests for meetings or other correspondence received by a designated public official in Department of Education regarding schools in Galway for the period of January 1st to February 21st, 2019 2)The Minister for Educations diary for the period of January 1st to February 21st, 2019
- GrantedReceived —Decided 5 June 2019Department of Education and Youth
The amount spent on training/workshops for department staff on Freedom of Informationrequests/legislation, broken down per year for 2016, 2017 and 2018.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 30 May 2019Department of Education and Youth
Enrolment and Teacher Allocations 2017/18Voluntary Secondary SchoolsEnrolment and Teacher Allocations 2017/18; Community & Comprehensive Schools Enrolment and Teacher Allocations 2017/18Year total for each ETBSummary Enrolment and Teacher Allocations.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 28 May 2019Department of Education and Youth
Documents / information under the freedom of information act in relation to the dated schedule of building works for the construction of the temporary school at Roslyn Park site in Sandymount
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 27 May 2019Department of Education and Youth
Information from subject inspections
- GrantedReceived —Decided 27 May 2019Department of Education and Youth
Correspondence and documentation including minutes of meetings relating to all sites examined in the Killester-Clontarf-Raheny catchment area by the Department of Education dating from January 1st to April 10th 2019