Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which have not had their delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, legacy posts subsumed due to the temporary reprieve provided by her for schools with legacy posts which were due an additional teacher due to an increase in pupil numbers; her plans to restore legacy DEIS posts to schools which previously had DEIS legacy posts withdrawn by her Department in lieu of an additional teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32818/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Deputy will be aware that I have recently begun a process to review the DEIS Programme. This work will be ongoing during the current school year. Pending the outcome of this review I have decided to pause the offsetting of legacy posts arising from pre-Deis disadvantage programmes in a small number of schools for the current (2015/16) school year. The number of schools in question is 10.

As I have previously announced, I do not intend to make any changes to the current programme, including any additionality to it, while the review is underway.