Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Question 221: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the participation in the stay in school retention initiative has enabled a school (details supplied) in County Wexford to improve on its early school leaving status, fund an attendance office, provide catering for a breakfast club, provide counselling and mentoring, facilitate the involvement of parents in certain projects and run educational and sports projects which otherwise would not have been possible; if, in view of the very beneficial effects of the initiative, funding will be provided to ensure the continuation of these supports beyond August 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12595/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The new policy framework that I will publish shortly is the result of a full review of the measures that have been put in place to support pupils from disadvantaged areas over the last two decades. Apart from the additional investment under the new policy framework, resources and supports will continue on the existing basis for the next school year for schools involved in current schemes and programmes for addressing disadvantage, including the 53 schools involved in the stay in school retention strand of the school completion programme.