Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 1210: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of teachers, language assistants, special needs assistants and other school staff which have been let go, or who have not had their contracts renewed, for both the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 school years for each primary and post-primary school in Dublin 15; the staffing level under each category for these school years for each school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33610/09]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The recruitment, selection and appointment of staff whether for teaching or other positions in a school rests with Boards of Management as employer.

The Statistics section of my Department's website now contains data at individual primary school level, including the number of teachers in each school for the 2008\2009 school year. However it does not contain information on the number of Special Needs Assistants or other school staff in each school.

If the Deputy has an enquiry about a particular school my officials will be happy to provide the information directly to her.

The Primary Census for the 2009/2010 school year will be carried out in the Autumn and the final outcome will be made available when this process is completed.

The Deputy will be aware that my Department has published provisional information on the Department's website about teacher allocations for 2009/10 school year. This was done as a first step at improving the level of information in the public domain about changes to the staffing allocations at both primary and post-primary level. The allocation process will not reach finality until later this year and I remain committed to publishing updated information.