Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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650. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the school completion programme in 2017; and the amount budgeted for 2018. [54064/17]

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the school completion programme in 2017; and the amount budgeted for 2018. [54069/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 650 and 655 together.

The Educational Welfare Service of Tusla has advised that the School Completion Programme received €24.7m in funding in 2017. It has also advised that confirmation of the allocation for 2018 will be confirmed following the completion of the 2018 business planning process in Tusla.

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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651. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of schools that have availed of the school completion programme each year since 2011. [54065/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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A total of 470 primary and 224 post-primary schools have been included in the School Completion Programme per year from 2011 to the current year. The number of schools has been the same each year.

The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table.