Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide for the obligatory ongoing maintenance of the Clárleabhar in primary schools, following the introduction of the primary online database in 2016, as an invaluable source of local history, and out of respect for long established tradition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14515/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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All primary schools currently have a mandatory requirement to maintain a record of their pupil enrolments in a hard copy book known as the "Clárleabhar".

The same information will now be held in electronic format in the Primary Online Database (POD).

The Department will therefore be shortly informing primary schools that, with effect from September 2015, it will no longer be necessary for primary schools to maintain this duplicate record in the "Clárleabhar".

It is intended that schools will be enabled to print a hardcopy of this information from the POD for their own records.