Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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1317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which every school will be required to have a literacy action plan with demonstrable outcomes. [33688/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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As part of the school self-evaluation process, all schools were required to complete the first three-year school improvement plan by the end of the school year 2013/14. These plan should indicate the improvement targets set by the school and the dates by which they expect to achieve their targets - this is likely to be three years from the date the targets were set. At primary level, schools were free to focus on either literacy or numeracy in the first year. They will then focus on the other area in 2014/15. At post-primary level, schools are required to focus on literacy, numeracy and one other aspect of teaching and learning over a four-year period from 2012 to 2016. Post-primary schools were free to focus on either literacy, numeracy or another aspect of teaching and learning in the first year. By 2016, post-primary schools should have engaged in school self-evaluation and devised school improvement plans with a focus on literacy.