Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 416: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the minimum number of pupils required on 30 September in any given year for a school to remain open. [12995/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Under the rules for national schools, grant aid is not continued to a primary school at which the average daily enrolment falls below eight units for two consecutive school years. Under the rules and programme for secondary schools, recognition can be withdrawn from a post-primary school which fails to comply with any one of the conditions relating to its recognition or in which, during two successive years, the number of recognised pupils is less than 12, or the instruction given in the school is inefficient.