Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of career guidance teachers working in each of the post-leaving certificate colleges, institutes of technology and universities; the number of students in each college; and the number five years ago. [21093/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Since September 2012 guidance provision in schools, including PLCs, must be managed by schools from within their standard staffing allocation. Schools have autonomy on how best to prioritise their available resources to meet their requirements in relation to guidance and the provision of an appropriate range of subjects to students. Decisions on how this is done is taken at school level. For the 2009/10 academic year, 186 schools enrolled 38,534 PLC participants. In 2014/15, 33,089 PLC participants were enrolled in 159 schools. A breakdown of these figures is provided in the attached spreadsheets.

There are no career guidance teachers employed in the University or Institute of Technology sector. However, higher education institutions run their own careers advisory services for their students.

I have, therefore, provided in the attached spreadsheet the number of career guidance teachers currently employed and the number of those employed five years ago. The enrolment figures for third level institutions are contained in the attached table.

Third level full and part-time enrolments for 2014/15 and 2009/10.

PLC Enrolment 2009 - 2010