Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

The €40 million was the total budget for Mozambique.

To date, the emphasis has been on primary education and giving those in the programme countries an opportunity to attend school. The results so far have been good, particularly in Uganda. Moneys are mainly spent on schools and teacher training. A pressing issue in some of the programme countries, which have done well in primary education enrolment, is secondary school provision. For example, when I visited Lesotho with President McAleese, its Minister for Education pointed out funding needs were becoming acute at second level. As free primary education had been extended to all children, they were incurring more financial pressure as children moved on to second level education. We are opening up funding for second level education provision. Our prime purpose, however, will remain with primary education.

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