John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the [i]per capita[/i] grant available to schools (details supplied); if funding at the School of Music in WIT will be brought in line with the other institutes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24309/04]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The annual budget for each institute of technology is at present allocated on the basis of its total pay and non-pay requirements following consideration of its annual programmes and budget submission which is required under the RTC-DIT Acts. The allocation takes into account the complexity of the institute, the range of courses and facilities offered to students, the total number of students, both full-time and part-time, and the nature of the infrastructure. Decisions on the allocations also have regard to Government policy and priorities. The distribution of the funding allocated to each institute among individual schools and departments is a matter for the management authorities of the institute.

With regard to funding for the Waterford Institute of Technology, the position is that my Department's provisional budget to the institute for 2004 is €41.6 million. This compares with a budget of €39.6 million in 2003 — an increase of 5.1%. This compares with an increase of 4.5% to the Dublin Institute of Technology and 4.4% to the Cork Institute of Technology.