Richard Bruton
Question:450 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science the calculations underpinning the briefing issued by his Department in the context of the Estimates indicating that the net demographic dividend would be about 300 teachers at primary level, showing in particular the gross number of schools expected to lose teachers, the expanding schools requiring new teachers, the allocation to meet breaches in maxima and the net numbers available for assignment to remedial resource or other selected priority areas. [23892/98]