Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 September 2021
544. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education the number of primary school principals appointed in County Westmeath from 2011 to 2021, by gender, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42188/21]
View answerThe detailed information sought by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department.
It would take an investment of IT and other staffing resources to obtain this information. It is not possible given that the resource priorities must be allocated to ensuring the payment of teaching and non teaching staff on payrolls operated by my Department to provide this information.
The information that is available in relation to the number of teachers in primary schools on a county basis as provided by the managerial authorities of the schools is published in the Statistics Section of my Department's website.
The link to access the information is www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Data-on-Individual-Schools/
Statistics on a county basis are not compiled for the number of teachers but the information available in relation to the overall numbers including gender is available on the website. The link to access this information is www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/teacher-statistics/.
