Breeda Moynihan-Cronin (Kerry South, Labour)
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Question 37: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools which still have not returned information on class sizes for the primary school database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10723/07]

Breeda Moynihan-Cronin (Kerry South, Labour)
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Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the sanctions available to her Department in the context of schools which have still failed to return information for the primary school database more than four months after the deadline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10724/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 37 and 71 together.

The last Census of National Schools took place on 29 September 2006. 3,284 National Schools (including 125 Special Schools) received Statistical Forms. Of these 13 schools have still not returned their census form. In regard to schools that have still failed to return information for the primary school database, my Department could withhold the second moiety of the capitation grant. The first moiety was paid to all schools in January; the second is due to be paid in June. Before imposing any such sanction, we would have to issue a warning to these schools that such a sanction would be imposed if the necessary returns were not submitted. However we hope that such sanctions will not be necessary and that the remaining 13 schools will return their census forms in the near future.