Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with five teachers. [40753/13]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with four teachers. [40754/13]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with three teachers. [40755/13]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with two teachers. [40756/13]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the country with one teacher. [40757/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 251 to 255, inclusive, together.

Data on the number of teachers in each primary school in 2013-2014 is available in the table Class Size Information at Individual Primary School Level on the Department's website at the link: . That table shows 12 schools with 1 mainstream class teacher, 573 schools with 2 mainstream class teachers, 469 schools with 3 mainstream class teachers, 478 schools with 4 mainstream class teachers and 258 schools with 5 mainstream class teachers.

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the number of learning support teachers in our schools this year and every year since 1997. [40758/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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There is detailed historical information contained in the Statistics Section of my Department's website relating to the number of teaching posts in schools. The most recent published information relates to the 2012/2013 school year. There are circa 4,100 learning/language support posts in place in primary schools and circa 730 posts in post primary schools in the current school year. The arrangements for how schools access GAM/EAL (learning/language support) hours are set out in the published staffing arrangements available on the Department website.