Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding and programmes available to secondary schools to upgrade information and communications technology hardware; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42575/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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There is currently no programme funding that schools can draw down for ICT upgrades. Under the Digital Strategy for Schools 2015 - 2020, €30m will be provided to schools in the 2016/2017 school year and multi annual grants will be provided to schools rising to €50m by the end of the Strategy. Earlier this year, €7m was allocated to post primary schools to support the implementation of the Design Communications & Graphics syllabus.