Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 248: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of whole school evaluations of schools at primary level and at secondary level and the number of subject evaluations which have been completed in each of the years 2005, 2006 and 2007. [11002/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Inspectorate of my Department conducted 253, 228 and 241 whole-school evaluations in primary schools in 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively. The number of whole-school evaluations in primary schools given for 2005 includes 90 Tuairiscí Scoile, a former model of inspection which has been replaced by whole-school evaluation. At post-primary level, 53, 57 and 59 whole-school evaluations were conducted in 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively. Also at post-primary level, 676, 730 and 757 subject inspections were conducted in 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively.