Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of all funding allocated to each education centre here with a breakdown of the number of schools, number of teachers, number of pupils, and funding, for each of the past five years, in tabular form. [40712/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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My Department is the main source of funding for the Network of 21 full time Education Centres. All funds held by Centres are subject to compliance with the general rules governing bodies in the public sector including the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) Circular: 13/2014 Management of and Accountability for Grants from Exchequer Funds.

Funding from my Department of circa €18 million goes to Education centres annually through a combination of direct grants and charges levied on Department funded support services. Centres also have other sources of income including, hire of rooms, local partnerships, partnerships with other State bodies.

In addition to direct funding, the salary costs of the Directors who are teachers on secondment are met in full and paid by my Department.

I have provided as an attachment details of the Core and Local Course grants to Centres for each of the past 5 years and the current number of schools by Education Centre Region.

I will arrange for the current numbers of teachers to be forwarded directly to the Deputy.