Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the implications that a circular (details supplied) will have for schools that provided short-term stays for pupils that travel to Ireland to learn English. [32880/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The total number of recognised pupils submitted in a school's annual enrolment return to my Department is used to calculate staffing and grant allocations for that school. Under my Department's Rules and Programmes for Second Level Schools a recognised pupil must be following an approved course for junior or senior cycle and must be not less than 12 years of age on 1st January of the school year in question.

Circular 57/2011 notified school authorities that pupils who are from outside of the Republic of Ireland and on short term placement are not recognised pupils for the purposes of staffing and grant allocations. In this context, short term placement refers to any enrolment of a student from outside of the Republic of Ireland which is for a period of less than a full school year.