Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Cork city that have DEIS status broken down by DEIS band 1, 2 and so on and rural and by primary and post-primary level in tabular form. [51071/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools is the main policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. 

My Department will spend over €150 million on the DEIS Programme in 2021, which includes some €26.07 million for the School Completion Programme.

In the 2021/22 academic year there are 884 schools in the DEIS Programme serving over 186,000 pupils - 687 Primary and 197 Post Primary.

The number of primary and post-primary level schools in Cork City Local Authority area that presently have DEIS status are 40 which are broken down by DEIS Band in the table below:

The listings for both Primary and Post Primary schools can be found on the following link; 

www.gov.ie/en/collection/63363b-data-on-individual-schools/

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in County Cork that have DEIS status broken down by DEIS band 1, 2 and so on, rural and by primary and post-primary level in tabular form. [51072/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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DEIS – Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools is the main policy initiative of my Department to address educational disadvantage at school level. 

My Department will spend over €150 million on the DEIS Programme in 2021, which includes some €26.07 million for the School Completion Programme.

In the 2021/22 academic year there are 884 schools in the DEIS Programme serving over 186,000 pupils - 687 Primary and 197 Post Primary.

The number of primary and post-primary level schools the County Cork Local Authority area that presently have DEIS status are 27 which are broken down by DEIS band in the table below:

The listings for both Primary and Post Primary schools can be found on the following link; 

www.gov.ie/en/collection/63363b-data-on-individual-schools/