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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 9 May 1989

Vol. 389 No. 7

Written Answers. - Expenditure on Education.

190.

asked the Minister for Education the expenditure on education in Ireland and in other EC countries (a) per student in full-time education, expressed in ECU's and (b) per student at (i) primary, (ii) post-primary and (iii) third level, as a percentage of the gross domestic product.

The most recent data for other EC countries available to my Department is given in the 1987 UNESCO Statistical Yearbook. An extract from this yearbook giving the most recent data on spending on education as a percentage of GNP is as follows:

Total Public Spending on Education in the EC

Country

Year of Data

Education Spending as % of GNP

Belgium

1985

6.1

Denmark

1984

6.6

W. Germany

1984

4.6

Greece

1983

2.4

Spain

1985

3.3

France

1982

5.8

IRELAND

1984

6.7

Italy

1983

5.7

Luxembourg

1983

5.6

Netherlands

1984

6.9

Portugal

1983

4.2

United Kingdom

1984

5.2

Structural differences between the education systems of member states of the European Community and different methods of classifying pupils and teachers does not permit meaningful comparative per student costs at the different educational levels to be readily determined by my Department.

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