Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 11 Oct 1994

Vol. 445 No. 6

Written Answers. - VEC Statistics.

Paul McGrath

Ceist:

478 Mr. McGrath asked the Minister for Education the number of teachers, students, clerical staff and schools for each V.E.C. respectively at September 1993 and September 1994; and the total budget for each of those education authorities. [359/94]

Minister for Education (Ms Bhreathnach)

The information requested by the Deputy follows.

In the context of the 1994 information the following clarification is provided:

Teachers refer to teacher numbers, wholetime equivalent, allocated for full-time day courses in the 1994-95 academic year; Students refer to students enrolled on full-time day courses in the 1993-94 academic year — enrolment figures for the 1994-95 academic year are not yet available; budgets, which comprise the grant from the Department and the receipts of each committee, include the financial allocations made to date including instruction pay for October, 1994. These budgets are subject to adjustment for instruction pay for the months of November and December, 1994 and for payments made/to be made in respect of the following schemes/programmes from 1 July to 31 December, 1994: (1) scholarship scheme, (2) transition year resource grant, (3) school books scheme, (4) youthreach programmes, (5) vocational training opportunities scheme, (6) adult literacy and community education schemes, (7) youth and sport, and (8) miscellaneous.

VEC Teachers/Students/Clerical staff/Budgets 1993

VEC	Teachers	Students	Schools	Clerical/ Admin.	Budget Amount
Nos.	Nos.	Nos.	Nos.	£
City of Cork	232.3	3,538	5	23.0	9,162,899
City of Dublin	746.1	10,906	21	115.6	35,636,172
City of Limerick	101.5	1,562	3	18.0	5,812,433
City of Waterford	85.4	1,349	2	10.0	3,591,605
Town of Bray	57.2	796	2	6.0	2,735,593
Town of Drogheda	100.7	1,581	2	7.6	2,951,932
Dún Laoghaire	85.5	1,230	3	15.0	3,651,577
City of Galway	81.1	1,268	3	10.0	4,630,757
Town of Sligo	22.9	317	1	8.0	1,329,817
Town of Tralee	49.0	675	2	9.0	2,225,432
Town of Wexford	43.2	655	1	6.0	1,643,978
County Carlow	100.7	1,462	5	12.0	3,223,670
County Cavan	105.3	1,586	4	11.7	3,594,557
County Clare	153.9	2,367	7	14.5	5,526,128
County Cork	521.7	7,845	21	40.3	15,953,935
County Donegal	258.6	3,942	11	20.2	8,763,738
County Dublin	621.2	9,954	17	42.1	21,408,831
County Galway	185.9	2,610	12	23.5	7,391,649
County Kerry	180.3	2,865	9	16.0	5,848,105
County Kildare	245.2	3,826	10	15.8	8,256,173
County Kilkenny	120.3	1,751	7	11.0	4,403,900
County Laois	81.2	1,146	5	8.0	3,251,512
County Leitrim	90.0	1,279	6	8.5	2,956,900
County Limerick	121.8	1,659	9	12.0	4,634,519
County Longford	76.0	993	4	9.0	2,970,055
County Louth	107.7	1,767	3	14.5	3,796,562
County Mayo	158.9	2,339	8	21.0	6,950,473
County Meath	160.7	2,537	8	13.6	5,430,437
County Monaghan	157.9	2,346	5	13.0	4,601,854
County Offaly	138.7	2,210	6	13.2	5,232,315
County Roscommon	53.8	501	4	8.0	2,318,646
County Sligo	54.4	702	6	10.0	2,236,680
County Tipperary (NR)	136.2	2,194	6	13.9	4,791,482
County Tipperary (SR)	165.6	2,568	7	13.6	5,082,104
County Waterford	47.8	744	2	5.0	1,775,532
County Westmeath	132.0	2,037	5	16.0	5,542,394
County Wexford	149.3	2,337	6	13.8	5,430,744
County Wicklow	164.6	2,599	7	13.2	5,128,340
Total	6,094.6	92,043	245	641.6	229,873,430