Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 18 Feb 1992

Vol. 415 No. 8

Written Answers. - Subsidisation of School Text Books.

Paul McGrath

Ceist:

254 Mr. McGrath asked the Minister for Education if he will outline the criteria used to decide on the subsidisation of school text books by his Department; if he will give details of (a) the publications and (b) the publishers which receive grant aid; if he will further outline (1) the circulation of each of these publications and (2) the amount of money allocated to each of these publications for each of the last five years.

Minister for Education (Mr. S. Brennan)

My Department does not subsidise the publication of textbooks by private publishers, except in the case of Irish.

An Gúm, the publication branch of my Department, produces textbooks in the Irish language, both originals and translations of English texts. There is also a grant scheme to subsidise the publication of school textbooks in Irish which has not been availed of in recent years; the question of revised books is currently being examined.