Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of classes in primary schools in the Dublin 24, Dublin 12 and Dublin 6w postal areas in which there are classes of 30 pupils or more, and that this information be broken down on a school by school basis in the areas mentioned following the publication by her Department of last year's school census; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32184/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Data on primary schools is not available by Dublin postal code.

The Statistics Section of my Department's website contains information relating to class size in primary schools for the 2009-2010 school year. The information includes the number of pupils in each class and the number of pupils in each class size range.

The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools is published annually on my Department's website. In terms of the position at individual school level the key factor for determining the level of resources provided by my Department for the 2009-2010 school year was the pupil enrolment at 30 September 2008. While the staffing schedule allocates on the basis of an average number of pupils each individual school decides on how to arrange its classes.

The Deputy will be aware that the renewed Programme for Government commits the Government to no further increase in the pupil teacher ratio in primary and second level schools for the lifetime of this Government. The renewed Programme for Government also provides for 500 teaching posts to schools over the next three years over and above additional posts that will arise due to demographic increases.