Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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770. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 12 November 2014, the reason for her Department stating in its correspondence of 1 November 2010 (details supplied) that where parents are sanctioned home tuition by her Department, funding is provided directly to the parents of the children in question when this was not in fact the case as her Department already had an arrangement in place for a number of years to make direct payments to just one private commercial organisation. [49634/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The context of the correspondence referred to by the Deputy is significant in clarifying this issue.

The letter was in response to a submission from a private service provider outlining their intention to submit claim forms for funding for four children who were approved for home tuition to assist in their timely processing and payment. The letter added that applications for three children not approved for home tuition were to be submitted subsequently.

Therefore the approach in my official's response was to advise that new applications for home tuition were to be processed in line with the relevant circular and outlined the general conditions for payment which were at that time compatible with arrangements in place for the aforementioned four children for whom tuition had been provided.