Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Does Ms Mannion appreciate that the schools, and the principals within those schools, are best placed to predetermine whether they require DEIS status?

We are pitting children against children here. Asking a school to provide a postcode as a methodology to determine disadvantaged status is outrageous. I am not saying it is the witnesses' fault but they can surely agree that it is outrageous. I know of a number of unsuccessful appeals and the matter makes no sense whatsoever. I will ask for this committee to recommend a complete review of all the schools that have not been given DEIS status. I will want to see, transparently and exactly, how it was determined that one school did not receive it while another school in the same district was given the status.