Written Answers - Departmental Expenditure.Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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234.
Deputy Joe McHugh
asked the
Minister for Education and Science
the nature of the cutbacks in funding in respect of the school for gifted children at Dublin City University.
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Minister for Education and Science (Deputy Batt O’Keeffe):
Notwithstanding the increase of €302 million in the Education budget for 2009, which is a real achievement in the current economic climate, a number of tough and difficult decisions had to be taken. These decisions [192]included the decision to discontinue the annual funding of €97,000 that my Department made available to the Centre for Talented Youth (CTYI) at Dublin City University.
While it is appreciated that the discontinuation of this funding will impact on the Centre, given the current volatile and challenging economic climate, difficult choices had to be made in order to contain public sector spending. Tax revenues are down significantly and Government expenditure has to reflect this reality. The priority of this budget was to focus on measures to channel as much as was possible of the available resources to the direct funding of our schools.
Question No. 235 answered with Question No. 223.
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