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APPENDIX XIV.

VOTES FOR TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION AND SCIENCE AND ART.

An Rúnaí,

Coiste um Chúntais Phoiblí.

A Chara,

With reference to my attendance before the Public Accounts Committee on the 6th December, 1950, I enclose, as promised in the course of my examination on Vote 48, the accompanying note on the subject of tuition fees in Vocational Schools.

I attach also, as requested, a note explanatory of the circumstances in which the reduction under Subhead B.8 of Vote 49 (National Film Institute) was made.

Mise, le meas,

	(Signed) M. BREATHNACH,
	Rúnaí,
16ú Eanáir, 1951.	An Roinn Oideachais.

TUITION FEES IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS.

Vocational Education Committees in exercise of the power conferred on them by Section 41 of the Vocational Education Act, 1930, fix and charge tuition fees for attendance at their schools and classes.

The estimated amount of the income by way of such fees is taken into consideration in the annual financial scheme (estimate of income and expenditure) prepared and submitted to the Minister by each Vocational Education Committee before the 1st December each year, in order to enable the Department to prepare its own estimate of the grants to be made to Committees in the following financial year (Subhead B. of Vote 42). The income side of this account makes provision for the contribution from the Rating Authority, the State Grant, Tuition Fees from students and other miscellaneous receipts.

The amount of the tuition fees varies according to the type of class, type of course and location, i.e., County, Urban or County Borough area. Generally, however, fees for single subjects vary from about 2/6d. to 10/- per session, and for courses from 10/- to £5. In the case of the City of Dublin, higher fees are charged for specialised and higher technological courses. These vary from £5 to £35.

Sums received by Vocational Education Committees in respect of tuition fees in the financial year 1948/49 amounted to £36,905, and for the financial year 1949/50 to £41,040.