Brendan Ryan (Dublin North, Labour)
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152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the models that are used to fund transition year in State funded schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11965/14]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The Department provides specific teaching resources and additional grant aid to schools that offer the transition year programme. Schools in the Free Education Scheme qualify for payment of a transition year grant of €95 for each pupil participating in the programme. The cost of transition year grants in 2013 was €2.88 million. The Department allocated circa 1,790 whole time equivalent teaching posts in the 2013-14 school year in respect of transition year with an estimated cost of €116 million.