Michael Bell
Question:388 Mr. Bell asked the Minister for Education if St. Nicholas' Monastery national school Dundalk, County Louth will be included in the new group of schools being designated as disadvantaged for staffing purposes; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that based on the enrolment on 30 September 1993 of 301 families with children in the school, 40.5 per cent of families are medical card holders, in 53 per cent of families neither parent is employed and 35 per cent of families are local authority tenants, 42 of whom are single parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter.