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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 21 Oct 1980

Vol. 323 No. 3

Written Answers . - Deprived Children .

396.

asked the Minister for Education the name and location of each home for deprived children in the country; the number of children in each home; the number of teachers in each home; and the funds allocated to each home in 1979 and 1980.

: There are 52 residential homes and residential schools for socially deprived and delinquent children. These homese and schools may be classifed in the following way:

(a) Four special schools which have been certified by the Minister for Educations as either reformatory or individual schools under section 45 of the Children Act, 1908.

(b) 25 residential homes which have been certified by the Minister for Education as industrial schools under the Children Act, 1980. In accordance with the recommendations of the Kennedy Committee, the majority of the children in these homes attend local schools. Only two homes, Goldenbridege and Rathdrum, have schools attached. There other homes, High Park, Dublin, Sunday's Well, Cork and Mayfield, Waterford, have training centres for teenage girls attached, with services of part-time teachers.

(c) 19 residential homes approved by the Minister for Health under section 55 of the Health Act, 1953.

A list of the schools/homes specified at (a) (b) and (c) above showing the numbers of children resident and the numbers of teachers employed is attached.

The special schools at Lusk, Finglas and Clonmel are financed on a budget system. The amounts allocated to the three schools from departmental funds for remuneration fo non-teaching staff, maintenance of boys and other expenses in 1979 and 1980 were as follows:

1979

1980

Lusk

£255,700

£360,000

Finglas

£300,300

£379,000

Clonmel

£233,000

£298,500

The special school at Kilmacud and all the residential homes are funded by capitation grant. Payment of this grant is shared between the Departments of Education and Health and the local authority of the area in which the child resides. The rates of grant during 1979-80 were:

£34.00 per child per week with effect from 1-3-1978

£38.50 per child per week with effect from 1-3-1979

£41.00 per child per week with effect from 1-6-1979

£46.50 per child per week with effect from 1-3-1980

Special School

Number of Children

Number of Teachers

Finglas Children's Centre, Finglas West, Dublin 11.

St. Laurence School

64

Principal + 10

St. Michael's Remand and Assessment Unit

21

St. Jospeh's Ferryhouse, Clonmel (Boys)

78

Principal + 5

Scoil Ard Mhuire, Lusk, Co. Dublin (Boys)

43

Principal + 6

St. Anne's, Upper Kilmacud Road, Stillorgan (Girls)

15

3 Part-time

Total

221

Residential Home

Number of Children

Number of Teachers

St. Colman's, Rushbrooke, Cobh, Co. Cork

15

St. Joseph's, Mallow, Co. Cork

40

St. Joseph's, Passage West, Co. Cork

31

St. Finbarr's, Sunday's Well, Cork

37

Marymount Training Centre

9

4 Part-time

St. Anne's, Booterstown Avenue, Blackrock

17

St. Vincent's, Goldenbridge, Dublin 8

57

Principal + 3

St. Mary's, Lakelands, Dublin 4

27

High Park, Drumcondra, Dublin 9

30

An Grianan Traning Centre

9

6 part-time

St. Joseph's, Clifden, Co. Galway

37

“Aisling” and “Loyola”, Ballyloughane Road, Renmore, Galway

36

Lisoamóie, Muckross Road, Killarney

30

Nazareth Home, Tralee, Co. Kerry

27

St. Joseph's Waterford Road, Kilkenny

94

1 home tutor part- time

Dominican Boys' Home, St. Saviour's. Upper Dominick Street, Dublin 1

39

St. Vincent's North William Street, Dublin

14

Sacred Heart Home, Drumcondra, Dublin 9

45

Don Bosco House, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1

13

Miss Carr's Children's Home

15

Kirwan House, 134 Sandford Road, Dublin 6

10

St. Clare's Children's Home, Harold's Cross, Dublin 6

20

Sarsfield House, Hostel for Boys, Sarsfield Road, Dublin 10

17

Madonna House, Grove Avenue, Stillorgan

66

The Grange, Kill O' The Grange, Dún Laoghaire

32

St. Joseph's Residential Home, Tivoli Road, Dún Laoghaire

15

Cottage Home, Tivoli Road, Dún Laoghaire

27

Glen Silva, Monkstown Road

23

Trudder House, Newtownmountkenndy

10

St. Joseph's Home, Stamullen, Co. Meath

46

Geevagh, Co. Sligo

6

Nazareth, Co. Sligo

45

St. Mura's Nursery, Fahan, Co. Donegal

8

Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

5

St, George's 60 Clar Street, Limerick and “Shalom”

Pennywell Road, Limerick

27

Mount St. Vincent's, O'Connell Avenue, Limerick

49

St. Michael's, Cappoquin

37

St. Vicent's, Fair Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth

37

St. Joseph's, Dundalk

8

St. Bernard's Rocklow Road, Fethard, Co. Tipperary

37

Mayfield, College Street, Waterford

34

Craceark Traning Centre

9

4 part-time

Mount Carmel, Moate

64

St. Kyran's, Rathdraum

62

Principal + 3

Benada Abbey, Ballymote (Girls)

4

St. Michael's Wexford (Girls)

12

St. Joseph's Salthill (Boys)

28

Total

895

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