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APPROXIMATELY 400 PRIMARY schools are to be offered funding from the school book rental scheme capital fund.
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn has announced that all primary schools who currently operate a school book rental scheme will be able to benefit from the €15 million School Book Rental Scheme Fund which he secured as part of Budget 2014.
Last October, the Minister announced that the €15 million fund would be targeted specifically at primary schools who did not currently operate a book rental scheme.
Presently around 80 per cent of the country’s 3,200 primary schools have some form of a book rental scheme with State funding amounting to around €11 per child.
Schools
Previously, 531 schools indicated that they did not have book loan schemes were invited to apply for the funding. Of these, three quarters of these schools have now applied.
DEIS schools will receive €150 per child and non-DEIS schools will receive €100 per child in seed capital funding over the next two years to establish book rental schemes.
This will cost approximately €6.7 million and is expected to benefit more than 63,000 pupils and their families.
Minister Quinn has now decided that the balance of the fund, some €8.3 million, will be divided among all other primary schools that currently operate book rental schemes, in 2015 and 2016.
These schools are expected to receive a total of €18 per pupil or €20 in DEIS schools over those two years.
This is on top of the annual book grant of €15 million which is paid to all schools on a per pupil basis.
Minister Quinn said that “every primary school in the country has now the opportunity to benefit from the School Book Rental Scheme funding we secured through the proceeds of the sale of the National Lottery”.
He said:
Every primary school has now been given the opportunity to benefit from the funding I secured for book rental schemes.I believe that all parents should have access to a school book rental scheme enabling them to significantly reduce the costs of sending a child to school.
Funds of €5 million in seed capital funds for the book rental schemes will be distributed later this month in order to give the schools time to do so for the next school year, while the balance of the funding, €1.7 million, will be distributed to qualifying schools in 2015.
The minister said that provisions are also being made for new primary schools due to open in September to receive this funding. All other primary schools that currently operate book rental schemes will receive their share of the funding in 2015 and 2016.
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best of luck to all running today, ye are great,well done.
O’Brien
It’s Raining – on Denis O’Brien especially today in The Journal – but just not where The Comments should be raining down on the Gobaloon ???
Run along to An Pobhloct for their comments section…. oh wait!
So many women running for so many brillant causes! Best of luck to them all & have fun!
1.25% wont complete it!
How original.
Probably more than 1.25% won’t complete it…
But less than the 56%(men) and 45%(women) who will survive 10 years of cancer…
Best of luck to all running.
Tomorrow’s Independent will report that Denis O’Brien won both the Cork and Dublin Marathon.
“The rain is forecast for most of June and will extend into July, with a high probability of frequent reoccurrence throughout August. I’m Irish weather, thank you, that’s all the news for now.”
Jesus mosery guts, its to be lovely from Wednesday……
*misery!!!
Blocking the city streets. This should be run in the park.
That’s the spirit Shane!
I’m assuming you aren’t athletic or sporty… Half the attraction of running a marathon or race is to run through different terrains and seeing cites that you don’t normally have the opportunity to see on foot.
Using your logic why not bring in a few shipping container load of treadmills
In case you missed it, there’s a blooming festival in the park Shane. A blooming big one at that.
Drew – Do you compete in theMarathons around China ??!!
@Shane. Get a life Shane. Remember also that you too may benefit some day from the money raised today by the thousands of women running in aid of so many good causes. Good on them.
Where is the finish line. Want to drop the kids of with the Mrs just as she crosses the line :)
Fitzwilliam st upper.
Good luck and fair play to all those taking part, especially those who aren’t exactly ‘ super-fit ‘.
Personally, I’m exhausted after just running a bath.
Correction – it’s the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon.
Thanks Orla for changing it but not acknowledging my correction :-)
What do you want? A medal?
Couple of boxes of Flora and I’ll keep quiet the next time.
Hi Peter.
The change was actually made before you posted your comment. When an article is updated it can take a few minutes before every reader sees the corrected version.
Enjoy the rest of your bank holiday.
Kind regards,
Órla
…and thanks for the tip, nonetheless!
Thanks for correcting. Don’t worry I knew you were aware it was VHI and it was just a typo. Have a great bank holiday yourself :-)
burned!
Suppose no time for proof-reading ( or research) with all the courageous D.O’B articles they’re writing. #nobleProfession.
I am actually sick of the DOB comments especially on articles where they are highly inappropriate. If you are that upset over the journal not reporting I suggest you switch media outlets!
Shane stay in and catch up on your soaps big aulwan
28-30 degs C here, clear blue skies, a nice cooling breeze, but it’s a normal working day. :-(
June 1st 2015 and summer has arrived in Ireland
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1jpWtsgJ3k
oops wrong link
https://youtu.be/ukfS6gW6_Fo
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