Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 851: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of cases of physical violence or injury by students against teachers reported to her Department in primary and secondary level for each of the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10194/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As responsibility for dealing with cases of assaults by pupils against teachers rests with the board of management, such cases may not come to the attention of my Department, except where teachers apply for assault leave. My Department received applications for assault leave in respect of six primary teachers in the last three years, two in 2002-03, three in 2003-04 and one in the current school year. No applications were received at post-primary level in the same period.