Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out in respect of the €20 million capital allocation announced in budget 2022 to schools for the purchase of books, audio books and other media, the way schools can access such funding; the timeline for the roll-out of the funding; her plans to conduct an evaluation of its impact after the fact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4358/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Funding of €20 million is being made available in 2022 so as to enable all schools to purchase books, audio books and other media for the purposes of improving their existing literacy resource banks. This funding is additional to that already given for the school books rental scheme and book grants to all recognised primary and post primary schools within the Free Education Scheme in order to alleviate the cost of school books for parents.

An announcement will be made in the coming weeks on when the grant monies will be paid to the schools.