Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of additional children enrolled into mainstream primary and secondary schools under international protection and beneficiaries of temporary protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24596/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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In Ireland, all migrant children, including children of international protection applicants, refugees, migrant workers and unaccompanied minors, can access pre-school, first and second-level education in a manner similar to Irish nationals, until they have reached the age of 18 years.

Tusla Education Support service has a dedicated team working in collaboration with the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS), to assist in management and co-ordinating of school placements, working in collaboration with the Regional Education and Language Teams (REALT) teams. School enrolment databases do not record whether a child or their parent has sought asylum. Therefore this Department does not hold data on children enrolled in schools who have arrived in Ireland under International Protection.

We do however have data in relation to the number of Ukrainian students enrolled in schools, which is set out by county in the table below, at primary and post-primary level, as of end April 2023.

My Department continues to publish figures on the enrolment of Ukrainian children each month. The latest press release of 3 May 2023 is available here gov.ie - Department of Education confirms 15,458 Ukrainian pupils currently enrolled in Irish schools (www.gov.ie)

The Deputy may also wish to note that the CSO also publishes data on Ukrainian arrivals and enrolments on their database data.cso.ie/# on a weekly basis, and the latest data available there is as of 18 May.