Departmental Funding

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

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Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Question:

246 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the total adult and further education budget per vocational education committee for 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8199/12]

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Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills (Deputy Ciarán Cannon)

In 2011, my Department provided funding of nearly €420 million for further education programmes delivered by Vocational Education Committees (VECs). This covered the pay of staff, non-pay capitation, participant allowances and student support for learners in Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses.

Funding for the Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme, Youthreach, Senior Traveller Training Centres, the Back to Education Initiative, Adult Literacy and Community Education, the Adult Education Guidance Initiative and a range of other smaller programmes is totalled, broken down by VEC, and set out in the attached table, along with expenditure on student support for PLC learners.

Funding for the pay of staff and an element of non-pay funding for PLC is administered to VECs as part of mainstream allocations. The estimated costs of these for each VEC are set out in the table.

Funding is also allocated to some VECs under the co-operation hours scheme for further education services delivered in non-VEC centres, like prisons. The total estimated cost of this provision nationally is €25 million.

Adult and Further Education provision 2011

VEC	Actual Further Education provision — VTOS, Youthreach, STTC, PLC FE Capitation, BTEI, Adult Literacy, Community Education and Adult Guidance €	Estimated Post Leaving Certificate Pay €	Estimated Post Leaving Certificate Post Primary Capitation €	Actual Post Leaving Certificate Student Grants €	Total €
City of Cork	9,124,313	14,141,176	820,080	2,914,633	27,000,203
City of Dublin	36,830,655	27,310,588	1,586,712	4,318,638	70,046,594
City of Limerick	8,791,491	3,282,353	193,800	1,288,876	13,556,520
City of Waterford	6,224,368	2,741,176	161,160	907,750	10,034,454
Dun Laoghaire	3,245,872	7,656,471	450,024	1,784,847	13,137,213
City of Galway	6,309,080	4,164,706	248,880	1,814,133	12,536,799
County Carlow	3,500,648	2,917,647	171,360	1,058,641	7,648,297
County Cavan	4,250,535	4,341,176	259,080	2,536,998	11,387,789
County Clare	8,199,510	463,529	28,152	434,280	9,125,471
County Cork	10,302,304	4,743,529	278,256	164,670	15,488,759
County Donegal	9,340,879	652,941	37,740	243,112	10,274,673
County Dublin	26,809,645	3,268,235	192,984	560,897	30,831,761
County Galway	9,978,725	658,824	40,800	337,162	11,015,511
County Kerry	9,626,291	1,941,176	120,360	958,110	12,645,938
County Kildare	8,105,481	1,260,000	72,828	308,548	9,746,857
County Kilkenny	4,820,867	1,729,412	104,040	418,368	7,072,687
County Laois	4,481,869	1,305,882	75,480	344,029	6,207,260
County Leitrim	1,757,019	324,706	18,768	53,124	2,153,617
County Limerick	4,799,916	1,117,647	67,320	314,921	6,299,804
County Longford	3,746,306	1,235,294	71,400	277,903	5,330,902
County Louth	5,714,124	3,952,941	236,640	1,490,564	11,394,270
County Mayo	7,507,867	1,496,471	94,656	649,884	9,748,878
County Meath	7,510,634	1,150,588	74,664	320,705	9,056,591
County Monaghan	3,220,206	1,051,765	68,952	482,643	4,823,565
County Offaly	4,411,089	200,000	14,280	34,771	4,660,140
County Roscommon	4,201,620	222,353	12,852	79,913	4,516,738
County Sligo	2,877,185	1,623,529	102,000	1,077,885	5,680,599
County Tipperary NR	4,110,924	2,205,882	131,580	1,015,812	7,464,199
County Tipperary SR	3,011,730	1,011,765	61,200	261,633	4,346,328
County Waterford	4,180,918	787,059	45,492	335,291	5,348,760
County Westmeath	4,609,722	511,765	33,660	915,129	6,070,276
County Wexford	8,697,432	2,682,353	155,040	614,715	12,149,540
County Wicklow	10,511,153	3,529,412	212,160	1,371,281	15,624,005
	250,810,380	105,682,353	6,242,400	29,689,865	392,424,997