Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The process looks at every pupil enrolled in each school. It goes right back to the origin of where they are living. It uses the indicators of disadvantage in those specific small areas to aggregate a picture of the level of concentrated disadvantage in the school. This is absolutely looking at the individual circumstances of each school. Every child is looked at under this review. Therefore, it is a fair and objective system.

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