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29/11/2007
Financial Crisis Threatens Schools
Another pre-Budget 'shot' has been fired across the Government bow with news that some educational establishements face severe financial problems.
Several schools in Dublin's new district of Adamstown have said they fear bankruptcy.
Adamstown, along the main Dublin-Kildare railway line, 16km west of Dublin city centre, is the home of a flagship primary education project in Dublin, but - possibly as early as Easter - a crisis in funding may see the school bankrupt.
Tom Moriarty, principal of Adamstown Educate Together School, says his school does not have enough funding for basic operating costs.
The Adamstown School is not the only place where schools are in trouble either as a number of new facilities are saying they cannot make ends meet either.
However, Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin said all schools are funded in the same way: through capitation grants and ancillary grants.
As next month's Irish Budget for 2008 looms, she said that education was given the highest ever increase for the day-to-day funding of schools in the last one.
(BMcC)
Several schools in Dublin's new district of Adamstown have said they fear bankruptcy.
Adamstown, along the main Dublin-Kildare railway line, 16km west of Dublin city centre, is the home of a flagship primary education project in Dublin, but - possibly as early as Easter - a crisis in funding may see the school bankrupt.
Tom Moriarty, principal of Adamstown Educate Together School, says his school does not have enough funding for basic operating costs.
The Adamstown School is not the only place where schools are in trouble either as a number of new facilities are saying they cannot make ends meet either.
However, Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin said all schools are funded in the same way: through capitation grants and ancillary grants.
As next month's Irish Budget for 2008 looms, she said that education was given the highest ever increase for the day-to-day funding of schools in the last one.
(BMcC)
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