Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the social impact assessments carried out by her Department and public bodies and agencies under her remit since 1 January 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37290/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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A Social Impact Assessment is an analytical framework that is designed to examine the demographic profile of public services users, and how they are impacted by budgetary policy decisions.

The framework complements existing budgetary impact assessment exercises conducted by various Government Departments and externally by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) as well as the annual Spending Review programme on which my Department leads and collaborates with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for areas relating to the primary and post primary schools sector. Details of the spending review programme are available online at . 

A list of the Social Impact Assessments carried out across Government Department is available atwww.gov.ie/en/policy-information/615fe5-social-impact-assessment-framework/ also on the gov.ie website.