Written answers
Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Department of Education and Skills
School Funding
Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide funding to a school (details supplied) which is applying to become the Foroige Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8173/16]
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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This Department provides capitation to schools which can be used for a number of purposes. It is normally used for mainstream education whether at primary or post primary. Schools would have discretion in relation to the funds. If a school chooses to become involved in the Foroige Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, it could allocate some of its capitation funding to this initiative.
It is not possible for this Department to provide discrete funding for the many initiatives that schools choose to participate in.
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