Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, from 2011 to date in 2015, the level of funding provided to Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa in County Cork; the number of teachers employed for the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15844/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, Cork, is under the aegis of Cork Education and Training Board (ETB), formerly under the aegis of City of Cork VEC. Financial allocations are made to ETBs as part of a block grant. ETBs are given a high level of autonomy in the management and appropriation of funding and each ETB is allowed to distribute its allocations in line with its priorities and needs.

Teacher allocations to all ETB schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. In accordance with these rules each ETB is required to organise its subject options within the limit of its approved teacher allocation. The deployment of teaching staff, the range of subjects offered and ultimately the quality of teaching and learning are in the first instance a matter for the ETBs.

Accordingly, my Department does not have available to it a breakdown of the distribution of funds or teaching posts to individual ETB schools, including Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, by City of Cork VEC and Cork ETB, in the period referred to by the Deputy.