Written answers
Wednesday, 28 September 2022
Department of Education and Skills
School Funding
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of all funding given to private schools in Ireland across all relevant headings for the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [47615/22]
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The total amount of funding paid by my Department to fee-charging schools and Department-funded staff salaries in fee-charging schools from 2016 to date is set out in the attached table and accompanying notes.
| Type of Funding | 2015/2016 | 2016/2017 | 2017/2018 | 2018/2019 | 2019/2020 | 2020/2021 | 2021/2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Teacher & SNA Salary Costs (including employer PRSI) | €92,372,523 | €91,107,627 | €102,034,476 | €106,159,271 | €112,448,289 | €120,578,511 | not yet available |
| Covid 19 Grants | €0 | €0 | €0 | €0 | €1,251,220 | €2,992,546 | €3,046,754 |
| Capital Planning & Building | €53,551 | €377,327 | €268,428 | €162,943 | €1,286,935 | €999,265 | €1,443,253 |
| Capital ICT Grants | €353,050 | €450,375 | €436,777 | €711,648 | €613,738 | €610,654 | €697,733 |
| Total | €92,779,124 | €91,935,329 | €102,739,681 | €107,033,862 | €115,600,182 | €125,180,976 | €5,187,740 |
Note:
The years prior to 2018/19 relate to Teacher salaries only and those for 2019/20 onwards include the salaries of Teachers and SNAs.
PRSI Rate applied - 11.05%
The Gross Teacher and SNA salary costs includes €245k in respect of the Supervision and Substitution balancing payment.
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