Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a teacher fee refund for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44227/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The Refund of Fees scheme is administered on behalf of my Department by Marino Institute of Education. 

Officials in my Department have checked with Marino Institute and I can confirm that the teacher in question applied under the 2015/16 Refund of Fees scheme and their application was approved for payment.  They received payment in August 2017.

As the Refund of Fees scheme is retrospective, the funding paid in 2017 relates to study undertaken in the academic year 2015/2016.