Cecilia Keaveney (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 426: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is financial assistance available from her Department for a project (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15279/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department supports the delivery of music programmes outside of schools through allocations to vocational educational committees under the Co-operation with Other Institutions heading. Students attending courses run by vocational education committees pay a fee to the relevant VEC.

My Department pays the salaries of the teachers in the case of school-based music tuition and there is normally no tuition cost to students in these circumstances. However, students who take music lessons outside their school in a college or school of music, or privately, can expect to pay a fee and my Department does not subsidise such fees. I have no plans to provide funding to privately operated summer schools, such as that referred to by the Deputy.