Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria on which DEIS status is awarded to a school; the rationale for excluding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63454/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Budget 2022 has provided for an allocation of €18million for 2022 and €32million for 2023 to extend the DEIS programme to further schools with the highest levels of disadvantage. This represents an increase of over 20% in funding for the DEIS programme and will enable an expansion in 2022 to additional schools.

This package follows an extensive body of work which has been under taken by the DEIS technical group in relation to the development of a model to identify the concentrated levels of disadvantage of schools. The refined model is an objective, statistics based process, based on school enrolment data and data available from Census 2016 under the HP Deprivation Index. It is important to note that there is no application process for the DEIS programme and all schools will be considered when the refined model  is applied.