Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 July 2019
499. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of increasing the funding of the capitation grant by percentage values (details supplied) in tabular form. [32839/19]
View answerI am pleased to have been able to provide for a 5% increase in capitation funding for primary and post primary schools that will apply from the start of the 2019/20 school year. The first and full year costs of this increase is €4 million and €10 million respectively.
I must be prudent in the context of ongoing budgetary pressures. Where it is not possible to do everything that I would like to do in the education sector in any one year I have to prioritise, especially in the context of increasing enrolments.
It is my intention to seek funding for further capitation increases in future budgets.
Each 1% increase in capitation and related grants for primary and post-primary schools would cost approximately €2m. The following table sets out the estimated cost of increasing the capitation grant by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%.
|
% increase |
Cost of increase |
|
10% |
€20m |
|
20% |
€40m |
|
30% |
€60m |
|
40% |
€80m |
|
50% |
€100m |
