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Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 February 2014

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

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Charlie McConalogue

Question:

81. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 11 December 2013, if he will clarify the date on which schools are required to submit their returns detailing pupil numbers as at 30 September 2013; the date when he expects this information to be available and when it will be published on his Department's website; if he will provide, in tabular form, the mainstream primary schools in each county, the number of pupils currently enrolled in each, and the number of classroom teachers in each, as at 30 September 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7165/14]

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My Department conducts the National School Annual Census in order to gather the data my Department needs for statistical, administrative and policy planning purposes. Schools are asked to return their forms to the Department by the end of October each year. Due to the large volume of forms it takes a number of months after the October deadline to receive all forms back, fully complete processing and produce final statistics. It is expected that data on the 2013/14 school year, including the number of schools, pupils and classroom teachers by county, will be on the Department's website by the end of the school year. It is hoped that with the introduction of the Primary Online Database, which will be piloted in the coming months, the process to produce statistics will become more streamlined.

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