Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 4 May 2017, her views on whether it would not be worthwhile to compile non-attendance rates for schools for administrative divisions smaller than county level, even though the information and expertise is available with her Department and Tusla; and her further views on the use of county level statistics for understanding the impact of policies aimed at reducing school non-attendance or non-retention (details supplied). [22749/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Tusla does not collate or analyse school attendance data at the level requested by the Deputy hence it is unable to provide the detail requested.

Data at county level is available in the annual attendance returns which may be accessed on the Tusla website.

Providing details at county level has been the agreed methodology for presenting school attendance data for over a decade. The purpose of these reports is to provide national trends and averages to assist with policy development and also to track national school attendance data on an annual basis.