Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools offering the junior certificate schools programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13361/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

The number of schools and other centres of education offering the junior certificate schools programme is 176. The breakdown of this figure is as follows: 139 post-primary schools; 12 special schools; nine traveller education centres; six youth encounter projects; three schools for the deaf; four schools for the physically handicapped; and three remand centres.