Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the number of Traveller children attending national schools nationwide by school patron; the percentage of Traveller children of the total number of children attending national schools; their percentage according to each school patron in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17505/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Data on Travellers are available from the Annual Census of National Schools and relate to the total number of pupils taught by a Resource Teacher for Travellers. Data from the September 2008 Census show that there were, in total, 6,843 pupils taught by an RTT teacher. Of these, 6,810 were enrolled in schools identified as having a Roman Catholic patron according to my Department's central database and 33 were enrolled in schools identified as having a multi-denominational patron. There are no records of pupils taught by RTT staff in other school patron types. It should be noted that Traveller pupils who were fully integrated in Ordinary Classes in National Schools and did not receive additional learning support by a RTT were not included in these figures as they are not identified, separately, in the Census of National Schools.