Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on making a framed copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic available to all primary and secondary schools here which are not already in possession of such an item. [16855/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has no plans to provide a framed copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic to all primary and secondary schools who are not already in possession of such an item. The provision of such an item for schools is entirely a matter for boards of management of individual schools.

Costs pressures on schools are taken into account by my Department in determining the levels of annual increases in the capitation grants paid to schools to meet their day to day running costs. Primary schools are now getting €178 per pupil to meet their day to day running costs — an increase of nearly 70% on the 2002 rate of €105 and €15 more per child than they got last year. Post-primary schools have also received this increase and now receive €331 per pupil. As the Deputy will be aware, we are committed to doubling the capitation grant for primary schools over the next five years.