Ms Rita Sexton:

On the ed-chatty forum on a Monday night, we do not monitor it as such but we are aware of the discussion threads on it. It is something we like to follow.

In terms of the funding to primary schools, the last round of grants were in 2009-10 and €46 million was issued to primary schools at that time. We asked schools to purchase a teaching computer and digital projector and if there were funds over they had flexibility on what to spend and schools had to make their returns on what they spent. As that goes back to 2009-10, we will not be looking at that in the context of the new grants. We are aware that PCs that were bought in 2009-10 will need to be upgraded.