Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 July 2020
507. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of ensuring that there would be a home school liaison teacher between two, three, four and five non-DEIS schools, respectively. [18787/20]
View answerThe Deputy will be aware that the average salary cost for one Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) Coordinator position based on mid point of the salary scale is circa €55,500.
Currently, all DEIS Urban Primary and DEIS Post Primary schools are included in the HSCL Scheme. The scheme is delivered by 415 full-time HSCL Coordinators who are teachers in these schools and assigned to HSCL duties across 523 schools either in individual schools or clusters of schools.
In respect of the question posed by the Deputy, as there almost 4,000 schools spread across a wide geographical area it is not possible to provide the breakdown requested without extensive detailed analysis of the feasibility of resource allocation between schools.
