Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
Question:133. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the status of the roll-out of the free schoolbooks scheme as announced in Budget 2022. [4690/22]
View answerTuesday, 1 February 2022
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Funding of €20 million is being made available in 2022 so as to enable all schools to purchase books, audio books and other media for the purposes of improving their existing literacy resource banks. This funding is additional to that already given for the school books rental scheme and book grants to all recognised primary and post primary schools within the Free Education Scheme in order to alleviate the cost of school books for parents.
An announcement will be made in the coming weeks on when the grant monies will be paid to the schools.