171 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will commission a cost benefit analysis in terms of the investment required to keep a child from a disadvantaged area within the school system up to leaving certificate level, the tax revenues arising from better paid employment balanced against the costs of educating the child, the loss of earnings of a child that leaves school early and the possible social welfare cost and the possible costs of imprisonment in view of the fact that children who leave school early are more likely to become engaged in criminal activity; if such a cost benefit analysis has been carried out extensively before; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26060/04]

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171 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will commission a cost benefit analysis in terms of the investment required to keep a child from a disadvantaged area within the school system up to leaving certificate level, the tax revenues arising from better paid employment balanced against the costs of educating the child, the loss of earnings of a child that leaves school early and the possible social welfare cost and the possible costs of imprisonment in view of the fact that children who leave school early are more likely to become engaged in criminal activity; if such a cost benefit analysis has been carried out extensively before; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26060/04]

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1. 27 October 2004

   Educational Disadvantage.

   171 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will commission a cost benefit analysis in terms of the investment required to keep a child from a disadvantaged area within the school system up to leaving certificate level, the tax revenues arising from better paid employment balanced against the costs of educating the child, the loss of earnings of a child that leaves school early and the possible social welfare cost and the possible costs of imprisonment in view of the fact that children who leave school early are more likely to become engaged in criminal activity; if such a cost benefit analysis has been carried out extensively before; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26060/04]

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