Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will re-consider her decision to withdraw funding from the Junior Certificate School Programme library scheme; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the scheme which commenced recently was proving to be of significant benefit to school children from disadvantaged areas; if she will arrange to renew the contracts of the librarians involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24911/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Library staff, like other public servants in the Education Sector, other than teachers and SNAs, are subject to the public sector recruitment moratorium.

Exemptions from the moratorium are, in the context of the public finances, a matter for serious deliberation. In this context, I am working together with my colleague, the Minister for Finance, in relation to this issue.

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the schools in which school librarians are employed, on a county basis; if she can confirm that the contracts of these librarians will not be renewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24912/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Under the terms of the DEIS Action Plan, a commitment was made to extend the Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) Demonstration Library Project to Schools in the School Support Programme (SSP) with the highest concentrations of disadvantage over the five years to 2010, with extension to further SSP schools to be considered subsequently.

To date, the Project has been extended to 20 additional SSP schools, bringing the current number of schools with a Demonstration Library to 30. The schools in the project are listed hereunder Donegal -Pobalscoil Chloich Cheannfhaola Meath - Beaufort College Waterford - Colaiste Chathail Naofa

- St. Paul's Community College Wexford - Enniscorthy Vocational College

- Wexford Vocational College Wicklow - Abbey Community College

- St. Kilian's Community School Cork - Terence MacSwiney Community College Dublin - Larkin Community College

- Mount Carmel Secondary School

- Kylemore College

- Colaiste Eoin

- Patrician College

- St. Kevin's College

- Riversdale Community College

- Collinstown Park Community College

- St. Kevin's Community College

- Jobstown Community College

- Killinarden Community School

- St. Aidan's Community School

- Marino College

- Colaiste Dhulaigh

- St. Paul's C.B.S.

- Presentation Secondary School

- C.B.S. James' Street

- Plunket College

- Trinity Comprehensive School Galway - Galway Community College Limerick - St. Enda's Community School

Library staff, like other public servants in the Education Sector, other than teachers and SNAs, are subject to the public sector recruitment moratorium.

Exemptions from the moratorium are, in the context of the public finances, a matter for serious deliberation. In this context, I am working together with my colleague, the Minister for Finance, in relation to this issue.