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Dáil Éireann Debate, Friday - 16 December 2016

Friday, 16 December 2016

Questions (170)

Róisín Shortall

Question:

170. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of all funding allocated to each education centre here with a breakdown of the number of schools, number of teachers, number of pupils, and funding, for each of the past five years, in tabular form. [40712/16]

Written answers

Minister for Education and Skills

My Department is the main source of funding for the Network of 21 full time Education Centres. All funds held by Centres are subject to compliance with the general rules governing bodies in the public sector including the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) Circular: 13/2014 Management of and Accountability for Grants from Exchequer Funds.

Funding from my Department of circa €18 million goes to Education centres annually through a combination of direct grants and charges levied on Department funded support services. Centres also have other sources of income including, hire of rooms, local partnerships, partnerships with other State bodies.

In addition to direct funding, the salary costs of the Directors who are teachers on secondment are met in full and paid by my Department.

I have provided as an attachment details of the Core and Local Course grants to Centres for each of the past 5 years and the current number of schools by Education Centre Region.

I will arrange for the current numbers of teachers to be forwarded directly to the Deputy.

Core and Local Course Funding
Centre	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
Athlone	180,746	180,746	180,746	180,746	180,743
Blackrock	250,834	250,834	250,834	250,834	250,834
Carrick	191,392	191,392	191,392	191,392	191,391
Clare	133,402	128,402	128,402	128,402	128,399
Cork	276,670	276,670	276,670	276,670	276,669
Donegal	232,158	232,158	232,158	256,908	256,905
Drumcondra	220,662	220,662	220,662	215,760	215,759
Dublin West	287,462	287,462	287,462	287,462	287,462
Galway	214,550	214,550	214,550	214,550	214,548
Kildare	172,222	172,222	172,222	172,222	172,219
Kilkenny	195,348	195,348	195,348	195,348	195,346
Laois	188,196	188,196	188,196	188,196	188,194
Limerick	396,548	396,548	396,548	396,548	396,548
Mayo	199,836	199,836	199,836	199,836	199,835
Monaghan	192,824	192,824	192,824	192,824	192,821
Navan	215,338	215,338	215,338	215,338	215,337
Sligo	191,576	181,576	181,576	181,576	175,098
Tralee	201,554	201,554	201,554	222,701	201,552
Waterford	206,438	206,438	206,438	206,438	206,434
West Cork	216,154	216,154	216,154	216,154	216,153
Wexford	217,678	217,678	217,678	217,678	217,678
Total	4,581,588	4,566,588	4,566,588	4,607,583	4,579,925

Region	Primary	Post Primary	Total
1	548	126	674
2	460	150	610
3	415	98	513
4	713	162	875
5	661	122	783
6	578	95	673
Total	3,375	753	4,128

Region	Area
Region 1	Drumcondra, Monaghan, Navan
Region 2	Blackrock, Dublin West, Kildare
Region 3	Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford
Region 4	Cork, Limerick, Tralee, West Cork
Region 5	Athlone, Clare, Galway, Laois
Region 6	Carrick, Donegal, Mayo, Sligo