Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs associated with the educational disadvantage committee for each year of its duration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34248/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The role of the Education Disadvantage Committee was to advise the Minister for Education and Science on policies and strategies to be adopted to identify and correct educational disadvantage.

Expenditure by the Department in respect of the EDC during its term of office was as follows:

2003 -  €38,000

2004 -  €62,000

2005 -  €75,000

2006 -  €700

The Committee's term of office expired in 2005.

The relevant legislative provision for the establishment of the Educational Disadvantage Committee was repealed by Section 7 of the Education (Amendment Act) 2012.