Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
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687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any updates on the Covid cleaning grant for term 2 that was expected in January 2023; and the timeframe in which it will be delivered. [13045/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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More than €362 million of additional Covid-19 Capitation grant funding has been made available to recognised primary and post primary schools to provide for the implementation of infection prevention and control measures to reduce the risk of the spread of COVID -19 to date.

As the Deputy is aware, the continued payment of Covid-19 capitation grants is determined by the prevailing public health advice at the time.

I am pleased to confirm that circa €38 million has recently been provided to schools to cater for ongoing enhanced cleaning, PPE and hand hygiene for Term 2 of the 2022/23 school year. This represents a total of €400.7 million to date.