Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I take the Deputy's point but to give him an example, a school with 178 pupils could be in a position to enrol up to 26 more pupils without triggering an additional teaching post. If the same eight-teacher school had an enrolment of 204 pupils, it would only take one pupil to trigger the appointment of an additional teacher. Whether a school can get a new teacher depends on how close it is to the next point. That changes from year to year in different schools. We could probably get the likely cost for the Deputy for a particular point in time, but that could change depending on population movement. We can probably get him an estimated figure, but it will not be absolutely accurate regarding the point when one would spend the money.

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