Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 582: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils in junior infants and in senior infants. [35643/06]

Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 583: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the overall number of pupils in primary school. [35644/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 582 and 583 together.

The latest school year for which data are available is 2005/2006. In that year there were 58,458 pupils in Junior Infants and 59,960 pupils in Senior Infants. The overall number of pupils in ordinary classes in primary schools was 442,131.