260,000 CHILDREN, POBAL DEPRIVATION DATA INDEX AND A CLASSROOM REVOLUTION WHERE IRISH CHILDREN ARE LEFT FIGHTING FOR PLACES OR LOCKED OUT
260,000 CHILDREN NAUGHTON’S REVELATION – POBAL HP DEPRIVATION INDEX LAY BARE THE SCALE OF THIS.
Ireland Rated Second Richest Country In EU
https://www.mappr.co/thematic-maps/richest-countries-in-europe/
The programme exposed several issues.
Deis, Deis + Deprevation in areas – Homlesness – Ipas – Most of the children in the segment were not Irish – Pobal PR.
260,000 over a quarter of a million – School Pupils mapped to Pobal Deprivation Index Score – Indicators
What is Pobal PR Pobal Deprivation Index? 2022
If your child or family is listed on the Pobal PR database, they are categorised according to the criteria and information associated with the Department of Education and Youth, under the Minister for Education and Youth, Hildegarde Naughton. These classifications identify levels of disadvantage, including disadvantaged and extremely disadvantaged.
Check it out here:
The 2022 Pobal HP Deprivation Index is the latest in a serious of deprivation indices developed by: Trutz Haase and Jonathan Pratschke and funded by Pobal. Based on the 2022 Census of Population, the 2022 Pobal HP Deprivation Index shows the level of overall affluence and deprivation at the level of electoral division.
So what information is on this Pobal HP Deprivation Index now in 2026?
Is this a new form of social and educational caste system
Has this Government and previous governments created what looks like a new form of social and educational caste system where 260,000 children and families are divided into categories in the Pobal PR Deprevation Index, of disadvantaged, very disadvantaged, and extremely disadvantaged in Ireland, the second richest country in the EU.
The Department itself confirms that pupil’s addresses are mapped to Pobal deprivation indicators to create a socioeconomic profile of each individual school’s pupil cohort.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING, THEY HAVE CATEGORISED YOUR CHILD AND YOUR HOME.
What makes this so shocking is not simply the scale of the 260,000 children involved, but the possibility that a label of their address on this chart could follow a child from the moment they enter school and potentially into adult life.
If information linking children or schools to deprivation scores were ever accessed, improperly shared or exposed through a security breach, the consequences could be devastating.
A child should never have their future prospects diminished because a database has associated them with a disadvantaged area.
If such information were ever used, directly or indirectly, in decisions about employment, finance, housing or other opportunities, a system intended to identify disadvantage could instead make it permanent.
For 260,000 young people, the stakes are enormous: what begins as a statistical classification could become a lifelong digital label. The maps on the charts link below show the deprived areas in blue.
Pobal HP Deprivation Index
Presentation to CYPSC Network
https://www.cypsc.ie/_fileupload/deprivation-index-cypsc-presentation.pdf
Is your home town or city shown as deprived or maybe extremely disadvantaged? How do you think it will look if you go looking for Job or a University place outside of these areas?
Minister Jim O’Callaghan, who has responsibility for immigration and migration policy, now faces an uncomfortable issue highlighted on national television by his sister, Miriam O’Callaghan, on Friday night’s Prime Time.
The programme featured a Limerick school principal seeking additional funding and resources for her school. Looking at the Prime Time footage, it is clearly apparent that the children shown were predominantly from migrant backgrounds.
The situation is totally unacceptable and raises serious questions of law. Irish parents are now asking whether the State has failed in its duty to protect Irish children from being disadvantaged or neglected in their own country because of uncontrolled mass immigration.
Irish children have rights too, including rights relating to proper education, equality and respect for their cultural identity.
Looking at that school in Limerick in the video clip, you have to ask how would an Irish child fit into that environment? It looks like a complete Irish cultural wipe out within our Irish schools now.
If Government policy has resulted in Irish children being pushed aside, denied school places or placed in circumstances where their educational and cultural interests are systematically discriminated and disadvantaged, Irish parents have every right to demand a legal examination of whether their children’s rights have been breached.
The segment is this programme on the RTE player from approximately 9 to 14 minutes. (As the RTE video may have private ©copyright rights sections included, I cannot cut out the clip but you can view on the RTE player:)
https://www.rte.ie/player/series/prime-time/SI0000000825?epguid=IH10016313-26-0058
A Direct Question for Taoiseach Martin and Ministers O’Callaghan, McAntee, Naughton
Last year, I reported on a young mother whose child was in a class where only three of the 22 pupils were Irish.
That young child is actually one of my extended family.
Her mother ultimately removed her from the school because she believed that the number of pupils with little or no English were seriously affecting her daughter’s education. She was left with no alternative but to home-school her.
A Tralee school also reportedly has more than 75% non Irish pupils.
Taoiseach Martin and Minister O’Callaghan, former Education Minister McAntee, and Minister Naughton, must answer a simple question: where was the Government’s planning and it’s legal duty to protect the educational rights and interests of children already in our schools?
Irish people are under no commitment, legal or otherwise to vacate our schools or school places for foreign students.
Statutory and professional obligations
Irish parents should not be forced to take their children out of the state education system, denying them an education they are legally entitled to receive in their own country.
Any teacher or school authority that knowingly prioritises one group of children over another in a manner contrary to Irish law may be failing in its statutory and professional obligations and could be subject to formal investigation and, where appropriate, legal proceedings.
