Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allocate funds to students in agricultural colleges similar to those available to students in other institutions through the Covid-19 education fund in view of the fact that agricultural colleges are excluded from that scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20245/20]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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My Department does not provide direct grants to students in the seven Agricultural Colleges run by Teagasc.  State support for Teagasc activities is provided yearly via block Grant in Aid funding which Teagasc then distributes across its research, advisory, education and training services to fund specific programmes, initiatives, actions etc.

The Grant in Aid allocation for this year is €137.5m an increase of over €4m on 2019. There is no scope to provide additional Grant in Aid funds this year.