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Disadvantaged Status

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 19 October 2021

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Ceisteanna (581, 583, 586)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Ceist:

581. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education the number of schools that will benefit from DEIS status under the €18 million funding announced in Budget 2022. [51055/21]

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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Ceist:

583. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education the breakdown of the €18 million allocated to DEIS in Budget 2022 in tabular form. [51057/21]

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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Ceist:

586. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education the number of additional home school community liaison coordinator posts; and the amount of additional funding for the school completion programme that has been secured within the €18 million allocated to DEIS in Budget 2022. [51060/21]

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I propose to take Questions Nos. 581, 583 and 586 together.

Budget 2022 has provided for an allocation of €18million for 2022 and €32million for 2023 to extend the DEIS programme to further schools with the highest levels of disadvantage. This represents an increase of over 20% in funding for the DEIS programme and will enable an expansion in 2022 of the programme to further schools.

This package follows an extensive body of work which has been under taken by the DEIS technical group in relation to the development of a model to identify the concentrated levels of disadvantage of schools. The refined model is an objective, statistics based process, based on school enrolment data and data available from Census 2016 under the HP Deprivation Index.

This work involved an initial process of consultation by my Department with the education partners on the technical aspects of the model. Over the coming weeks there will be further consultation with relevant stakeholders to outline the components of the model. The purpose is to ensure that, as far as possible, the refined DEIS identification model can provide an objective and independent means of identifying schools serving high concentrations of pupils at risk of educational disadvantage and also to ensure there is a full understanding of the refined model and its potential application.

The costing of DEIS supports vary from school to school depending on enrolment and the profile of a given school. A definitive breakdown of the numbers of schools to be supported will not be available until the current phase of work is completed.

The full list of supports available to DEIS schools is available on my Department's website at the following link: www.education.ie/en/Schools-Colleges/Services/DEIS-Delivering-Equality-of-Opportunity-in-Schools-/DEIS-Supporting-Information/Supports-to-DEIS-Schools.html

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