andMr. E. Collins asked the Minister for Education the purpose for which each of the bequests or funds administered by his Department may be used; the number of applicants for aid in 1977; and the number receiving it from each bequest or fund.
Written Answers. - Educational Funds and Bequests.
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The funds in question represent bequests, donations or subscriptions provided from private sources for educational purposes and administered by my Department under various legal trusts. The list of trusts, together with relevant statement of their aims and objectives as set out in the terms of the trust is as follows:
Killury or Nelan Fund: The income is applied towards the maintenance of Killury national school, County Kerry.
The Henry P. Mullock Charity: The interest is paid in augmentation of the salary of the teacher in the Charleville national school, Tullamore, County Offaly.
Carlisle and Blake Fund: The income is applied to the award of four premiums of equal value to lay students who distinguish themselves at the final examination in the training colleges.
Reid Bequest Scheme A: Awards are made to six of the most efficient boys' national schools in County Kerry—the schools being selected triennially—and the amount allocated to each school is calculated in accordance with the average attendance of boys for the previous school year. The distribution of money allocated to each school is entrusted to the manager who with the teachers selects the pupils to whom the awards are made.
Reid Bequest Scheme B: The scheme provides for the award of prizes of £20 each payable to each of the five best male candidates from County Kerry competing at the leaving certificate and successful at the entrance to training examination.
Reid Bequest Scheme: The scheme provides for the award of exhibitions tenable at a university to male students from County Kerry, who are or were in a recognised training college and have matriculated.
The Father O'Halloran Memorial Fund: The income of the fund is applied annually to the provision of two prizes for the boy and girl between the ages of 12 and 14 years residing in the district of Grane and attending any national school therein who shall show the greatest proficiency in all the subjects forming the ordinary national school programme.
The Michael Joseph McEnery Memorial Scholarship Fund: The object of the scholarship was to enable deserving boys who were pupils at Mahoonagh national school or Raheenagh national school, County Limerick in whose case certain prescribed conditions were fulfilled to attend a secondary school, vocational school or other school approved by the Minister for Education. Since the introduction of free post-primary education the application of this fund as heretofore has become irrelevant and a new scheme is being introduced.
The Lismore Endowment (Earl of Cork's Scholarships): The income is applied in providing annually, subject to certain conditions, two scholarships of equal value one for the boy and one for the girl who have answered best at the intermediate certificate examination from the candidates qualified as to residence and so forth in the Lismore district.
The Charleville Endowment: The income of the endowment is distributed to those of the secondary schools situated in the Charleville district which, receive capitation grant, and the distribution is made in the same proportions as such capitation grant has been calculated.
The Burke Memorial Fund: The annual income of the fund is expended on prizes awarded on the results of the intermediate certificate examination.
Ciste Shéamais A. Mhic Shuibhne: The income of the fund is used for the purpose of awarding annually a silver medal to the candidate who obtains the highest marks on the honours course paper in Greek, answered through the medium of Irish at the leaving certificate examination.
Erasmus Smith Endowment: The objects of the scheme are: (a) to provide for the reconstruction, equipment, reopening and maintenance of the Abbey School (formerly the Tipperary Grammar School) as a secondary school for boys including in its curriculum a special course in agriculture; (b) to provide scholarships for poor boys residing within a radius of seven miles of one of the grammer schools at Drogheda, Galway and Tipperary and for boys residing in any of the districts set out in the schedule to the scheme as being those in which the former Erasmus Smith estates were situated. The provision in regard to the reconstruction etc. of the Abbey School has been fulfilled. A sum of £580 of the income is allocated for the payment of the annual subsidy for instruction in agriculture and £1,720 for scholarships. The annual subsidy is still being paid. Since the introduction of free post-primary education no scholarships have been awarded and the introduction of a new scheme is under consideration.
The Mary A. Hardiman Bequest: The bequest is devoted to the promotion and support of vocational education. The Murphy Bequest: The income of the bequest is used for the general purposes connected with and for the benefit of the museum.
The schemes under which most of the funds are administered do not require applications for aid as payment is made to the persons or bodies entitled to benefit from the funds when the conditions of the schemes have been fulfilled.
Applications for grants are required in the following cases:
|
Title of Fund |
Number of applications for grants in 1977B |
Number receiving aid in 1977 |
|
Carlisle and Blake |
3 |
Nil |
|
Reid Bequest B |
11 |
16 |
|
Reid Bequest C |
1 |
1 |
|
Lismore Trust |
47 |
2 |
|
Burke Memorial |
Nil |
Nil |
The following funds do not require formal applications for grants:
|
Title of Fund |
Number of grants paid in 1977 |
|
Killury or Nelan |
Nil |
|
H.P. Muliock |
1 |
|
Reid Bequest A |
Nil |
|
Father O'Halloran Memorial Fund |
2 |
|
Michael Joseph McEnery Memorial Scholarship |
Nil |
|
Charleville Endowment |
2 |
|
Ciste Sheamais A. Mhic Shuibhne |
Nil |
|
Erasmus Smith Endowment |
1 |
|
Mary A. Hardiman Bequest |
11 |
|
Murphy Bequest |
1 |