Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that was provided to Limerick from her Department in 2022, broken down by project, in tabular form. [61574/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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My Department’s gross voted allocation for 2022 amounts to some €10.2 billion. Eighty percent of the funding is for pay and pensions for the schools sector. It is also expended on the school transport scheme, the School Building Programme and on a range of other programmes. The table below sets out payments that issued from my Department directly to schools in County Limerick, as recorded on my Department’s Financial Management System for 2022 (up to early December). Payments to Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board, including those to meet school related payroll and other costs, are not included in the table.

I wish to point out also that the amounts shown in the table represent the payments by my Department to schools (excluding ETB schools) in County Limerick across a very broad range of headings. However they do not include payments made directly to those teaching and non-teaching staff in schools who are paid directly via the Department’s payroll system.

Expenditure on the School Building Programme in Limerick is included in the table above. The current position on all projects in the School Building Programme, as well as listing on a county basis the schools that have had large-scale projects completed from 2010 to date are published online by my Department. The information is updated regularly and is available here:

www.gov.ie/en/service/c5b56b-major-projects/#current-status-of-large-scale-projects.