Written answers
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Department of Education and Skills
Minor Works Scheme Expenditure
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the minor works grant for national schools, the reason for the variance in the rate for special needs pupils in special needs schools and that for similar pupils in mainstream schools. [8965/15]
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Minor Works Grant 2014/2015 issued to all primary schools in December 2014. Schools received a basic grant of €5,500 plus €18.50 per mainstream pupil and €74 per special needs pupil on the rolls on the 30th September 2013.
The €74 rate applies to special needs pupils attending a special school and to special needs pupils attending a special class attached to a mainstream school.
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