Written answers

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Department of Education and Skills

Disadvantaged Status

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the process to identify a school as disadvantaged and which therefore should be included in the DEIS initiative; the number of additional schools that will be included due to increased funding for expansion of the programme; if a school (details supplied) is being considered; the documents or other items that the school needs to supply to be considered for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7007/22]

Photo of Norma FoleyNorma 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 DEIS ID 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 under the refined DEIS model when it is applied.

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