Vol. 475 No. 7
143 Mr. Haughey asked the Minister for Education the reason disadvantaged status has not been conferred on St. John of God secondary school, Kilmore Road, Artane, Dublin 5, in view of the fact that all but one of its feeder primary schools and the voluntary secondary schools which take pupils from the same area have this status; if she will reconsider this matter in relation to the 1997/98 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5670/97]
Disadvantaged posts were allocated to second level schools under the disadvantaged scheme on the basis of criteria agreed between representatives of management, teacher unions, parents and my Department. Schools were ranked in order of merit in accordance with the agreed criteria and the posts were allocated accordingly. The ranking of this school was not sufficiently high to warrant the allocation of a post.
The needs of the school will be considered in the context of any further expansion of the disadvantaged scheme which is undertaken.
