Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent)
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160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding spent on the Reading Recovery programme in primary schools for each year from 2010 to 2014; the amount of funding available for 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5180/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Reading Recovery is a licensed programme which has been made available to primary schools through the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST).Since 2004 over 20,000 students have benefited from the Reading Recovery Programme together with a range of other literacy supports.

My Department has spent over €4million in the years 2010-2014 on the Reading Recovery programme including salaries.

The budget for 2015 is not yet finalised but is estimated to be in the region of €760,000.

The budgets for the previous years referred to are as follows:

2010 - €733,000

2011 - €821,000

2012 - €800,000

2013 - €798,577

2014 - €855,994