Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 1100: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will grant the sanctioning of a second full-time teacher to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18. [24596/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In the case of a new primary school, the enrolment required for the appointment of the first mainstream class teacher in the first year of operation is 20 pupils. This enrolment must be achieved by 30 September.

The school referred to by the Deputy is a new school which opened in September 2005. The board of management of the school has projected an enrolment of 20 pupils on 30 September 2005 and, based on this projected enrolment, my Department has approved the appointment of a temporary teacher until 30 September.

The enrolment of the school will be reviewed in October 2005. It will be necessary for the board of management to confirm in writing to the primary payments section of my Department the actual enrolment achieved in the school on 30 September 2005. The confirmation letter must reach primary payments section within five days of 30 September 2005. It will then be considered.