Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 23 June 2020, if a school (details supplied) in County Mayo has applied for DEIS status. [24119/20]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Following the review of DEIS, my Department introduced an objective, statistics based model for assessing which schools merit inclusion in the DEIS Programme.  All schools will be assessed under this new refined model and therefore this negates the requirement for an application process. My Department is in the final stages of refinement of this model, based on school enrolment data and the latest data available from Census 2016 using the HP Deprivation Index.

This work is at an advanced stage and the initial phase of the consultation process with education stakeholder representatives on the technical aspects of the refined DEIS ID model has commenced. Until this work is complete, it is not intended to extend the DEIS programme to any further schools.