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Education and Training Boards

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 July 2017

Tuesday, 4 July 2017

Questions (171)

Thomas Byrne

Question:

171. Deputy Thomas Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 20 June 2017, if he will answer the question and provide details of all funding to each ETB from 2014 to 2017 which is channelled through SOLAS from his Department (details supplied); and if his Department does not have access to this data, his views on whether this is acceptable. [30914/17]

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Parliamentary Question No. 559 was interpreted in my Department as referring to funding provided directly by my Department to VEC/ETBs. 

Data on the funding provided by SOLAS to ETBs for the period 2014 to date in 2017 follows:

Summary of Grants Paid to Education and Training Boards by SOLAS

2017 to June 2017

2016

2015

2014

Total

Total

Total

Total

€'000

€'000

€'000

€’000

Cavan & Monaghan

8,376

14,632

8,340

6,896

City of Dublin

40,162

79,752

82,017

85,963

Cork

25,404

50,592

49,018

51,938

Donegal

10,156

20,435

22,354

14,697

Dublin & Dun Laoghaire

30,984

65,681

64,302

68,916

Galway & Roscommon

16,206

32,230

32,947

24,798

Kerry

12,554

24,439

24,354

24,997

Kildare & Wicklow

14,583

26,667

20,263

17,107

Kilkenny & Carlow

8,692

14,230

7,363

7,408

Laois & Offaly

7,888

14,646

7,507

7,892

Limerick & Clare

25,451

49,934

53,944

34,751

Longford & Westmeath

11,890

22,655

34,520

24,360

Louth & Meath

14,895

29,684

28,354

23,161

Mayo, Sligo & Leitrim

15,308

30,585

27,848

20,782

Tipperary

8,498

13,567

8,221

6,987

Waterford & Wexford

23,139

48,503

56,025

38,111

Total

274,186

538,232

527,377

458,764

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