€5.4m funding boost for further education centres
FOURTEEN education and training boards (ETBs) nationwide have been allocated a total of more than €5.4m in additional funding, it has been announced.
The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, has announced the latest funding of €5.4 million in education capital grants for ETBs.
The new funding is in addition to €8m issued in April this year under the Devolved Capital Grant to 16 ETBs, to invest in small-scale investment priorities at a local level under Project Ireland 2040.
Minister Harris says that the funding is going to help deliver “ambitious plans for the future”.
“Over 120 projects across the country have been approved. Each will have a meaningful impact on students and their learning experience,” Minister Harris said.
The funding announced is in respect of 127 projects across 14 ETBs with a combined value of €5.4 million.
Projects approved cover health and safety issues, small-scale energy efficiency measures, equipment and requests relating to positive improvements for learning spaces. SOLAS will distribute the grants to the individual ETBs.
“This funding in the form of devolved capital grants for the ETBs across the country will go a long way towards improving the facilities available to learners in the Further Education & Training sector, and to work towards achievement of the sustainability targets set forward in the Climate Action Plan,” Chair of SOLAS, Sean Aylward said.
See below table for funding breakdown:
* Cork ETB: €475,502
* City of Dublin ETB: €229,000
* Cavan Monaghan ETB: €302,849
* Donegal ETB:€153,750
* Dublin & Dun Laoghaire ETB: €877,230
* Galway Roscommon ETB:€190,000
* Kerry ETB: €910,000
* Kildare Wicklow ETB: €170,000
* Limerick & Clare ETB: €275,403
* Louth & Meath ETB: €879,636
* Longford & Westmeath ETB: €289,500
* Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB: €207,000
* Tipperary ETB: €114,816
* Waterford Wexford ETB: €342,460
Total: €5,417,147