Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 7 Mar 2002

Vol. 550 No. 2

Written Answers. - European Schools.

David Stanton

Question:

597 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 26 February 2002, the number of Irish students in each of the schools mentioned; when the Irish guidance counsellors will visit the three schools mentioned; the dates on which the most recent visits by inspectors took place to each school; when each school is to be visited next; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7765/02]

Minister for Education and Science (Dr. Woods):

The latest available data on the numbers of Irish students in the European schools is set out below in statistics sourced from "Population scolaire des écoles européennes résumé 2000".

School	Primary	Second Level
Alicante	***	***
Bergen	5	3
Brussels I	35	38
Brussels II	65	54
Brussels III	===	43
Culham	3	10
Frankfurt	***	***
Karlsruhe	7	1
Luxembourg	43	54
Mol	N/A	N/A
Munich	4	3
Varese	9	6
Total	171	212

Overall total of students: 383

*** Alicante and Frankfurt will not operate until September 2002.

=== As the primary section in Brussels III is a new section in a new school, no figures are available as yet for Irish students.

N/AMol European School has no anglophone section and hence has no Irish students.

Irish guidance counsellors visited the three schools mentioned during the week 18 to 22 February 2002. A further visit is planned in June. With regard to inspection visits, the following table sets out the information requested:

School	Last visit	Next planned visit
Bergen	03/10/2001	May 2002
Brussels (I)	06/07/2001	March 2002
Brussels (II)	20/11/2001	May 2002
Brussels (III)	07/02/2002	March 2002
Culham	12/12/2001	October 2002
Karlsruhe	16/05/2000	May 2002
Luxembourg	27/02/2002	October 2002
Mol	16/11/2001	May 2002
Munich	(no Irishteacherbefore 2001)	May 2002
Varese	18/10/2001	May 2002