Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017 for Tipperary ETB. [44340/17]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure for both south Tipperary VEC and north Tipperary VEC in each of the years 2007 to 2013. [44341/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 84 and 85 together.

The annual accounts for ETBs (and previously for VECs) provide detailed information on funding from a range of sources and how it was used. These accounts, when finalised and audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General, are published on the Oireachtas website. The most recent set of published annual accounts for Tipperary ETB relates to the financial year 2015.

An official from my Department will contact Tipperary ETB and make arrangements for copies of the Annual Accounts for the period 2007 – 2015 to be sent to the Deputy.

In relation to 2016, my Department approved funding totalling over €32 million to Tipperary ETB.

This figure includes funding for the pay of certain ETB staff (including teachers), funding for the day-to-day running of schools, specific grants (e.g. book grant, transition year programme), targeted expenditure (e.g. DEIS funding), funding for student grants, funding for capital projects (which can vary from year to year depending on number of projects) and also ETB head office running costs.

The corresponding figure for 2017 is almost €35 million. This figure may be subject to change as the year evolves.

It should be noted that ETBs also receive funding from sources other than my Department, for example through self-financing programmes or from other Departments and agencies, most notably for further education and training which is funded by SOLAS.