Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of fee-paying schools here; and the number of fee-paying schools that offer the leaving certificate applied programme. [52845/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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There are currently 55 fee charging second level schools. Returns submitted by these schools to the Department show that they have no students enrolled on the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme in the 2013/14 school year.

Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of non fee-paying schools here; and the number of non fee-paying schools that offer the leaving certificate applied programme. [52846/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The information requested by the Deputy for the school year 2013/14 is that there are 668 non fee paying post-primary schools. The number of these schools which offer the Leaving Certificate Applied is 270.