Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 387: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her policy in relation to the payment of teachers' salaries in fee paying post primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27190/07]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 388: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will continue to pay the salaries of teachers taken on by fee paying post primary schools where these teachers have been taken on due to expansion in school numbers by the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27191/07]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 389: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will pay the salaries of teachers in a fee paying post primary school if they open a school on a second campus but continue to be constituted as a single school with the same board and principal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27192/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 387 to 389, inclusive, together.

As the Deputy is aware, I informed the house on 2 October 2007 that, while continuing to give reasonable support to existing fee charging schools, I do not intend to provide state funding for any new fee charging schools.

The Deputy will appreciate that enrolments can vary in any school over a given period of time, and my Department will take account of such a variation when determining the appropriate teaching allocation to a school. My Department has no applications for funding from fee-charging schools proposing to open a second campus.