Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if statistics on the ethnic background of children accessing youthreach programmes are available and if so, if they will be provided by ethnicity. [15359/20]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Statistics regarding  the ethnic background of Youthreach Participants are recorded by Education and Training Boards on a further education and training database, the Programme Learner Support System (PLSS ). The following figures are a unique count of learners enrolled in the Youthreach programme during 2019 as reported on PLSS. However it should be noted that the provision of this sensitive information by learners is on a voluntary basis and contingent on learners’ provision of explicit and informed consent. As such, 240 out of the 2689 particpants enrolled in Youthreach programmes in 2019 did not consent for data on their ethnicity to be recorded.

Ethnic background of Youthreach Learners enrolled in 2019.