Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the primary schools and the number of places available in each school in the Dublin 2, Dublin 4 and Dublin 6 areas. [42009/08]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the secondary schools and the number of places available in each school in the Dublin 2, Dublin 4 and Dublin 6 areas. [42011/08]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the secondary schools and the number of teachers in each school in the Dublin 2, Dublin 4 and Dublin 6 areas. [42012/08]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 178: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils who attend private, fee-paying primary and secondary schools and if he will provide these figures in a table which lists each school individually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42015/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 172, 174, 175 and 178 together.

The information available to my Department in relation to the matters raised by the Deputy relates only to post primary schools. My Department publishes this information annually in 'List of Post Primary Schools'. I have requested my officials to forward the most recent copy of this publication, relating to the school year 2007/2008, to the Deputy for his information.

Private fee paying primary schools do not hold recognition by my Department. In relation to the number of teachers in each school, my Department will be advising individual schools in the normal way in relation to their staffing allocations. The preparatory work for this has commenced with the processing of enrolment data that has been received from schools. The staffing allocation processes including notification to schools will commence early in the New Year. The allocation process includes appellate mechanisms under which schools can appeal against the allocation due to them under the staffing schedules. In addition to the mainstream classroom teachers my Department also allocates teaching resources to schools for special needs and language support.

At this time the priority for my Department within the resources available to it is to carry out those processes in a timely manner. Diverting resources in order to compile either historic information or to create staffing profiles for the individual schools requested by the Deputy could not be justified and would in fact impede the process.