Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of the 195 Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, schools in tabular form, including the year in which the school attained DEIS status, the area in which the school is located and the specific DEIS status of the school, rural, urban band 1 or 2. [18319/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that there are 836 schools (646 primary and 190 Post Primary) in the DEIS Programme for 2015/16 school year.

An extensive identification process was conducted by the Educational Research Centre (ERC) on behalf of the Department in 2005 to select the schools for inclusion in the DEIS Programme on the basis of their relative level of disadvantage – with priority being given to the most concentrated levels of disadvantage.

Since the initial DEIS identification process and subsequent appeal process in early 2006, there has been no additionality to the DEIS programme.

Details of 836 schools participating in DEIS, including addresses, and the Band breakdown are available on my Department's website at the following link :

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