Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of any assessments her Department has carried out examining the number of new schools built since January 2009, that her Department has identified as potentially meriting status under the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools programme, but have not applied or received this designation due to the capacity constraints in the programme; and if she will provide, in tabular form, the number and location of these schools. [11442/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The current position in relation to DEIS (Delivering Equality Of Delivering Opportunity in Schools) is that I expect to receive a report commissioned from the Economic and Social Research Institute on "Learning from DEIS" in the near future.

I understand that this report will incorporate information in relation to the various inputs, processes and educational outcomes contained in the findings from the DEIS research and evaluations conducted to date by the Educational Research Centre and my Department's Inspectorate. It will also review other related Irish and international research on educational disadvantage. The report will assesses the main findings of this research and will provide an input to inform future policy direction in relation to educational disadvantage including DEIS.

In the meantime, my Department is keeping the operation of DEIS under ongoing review.