Schools Financial and Database

The Schools Financial and Database section discharges a range of operational, resourcing and support functions relating to the payment of grants to schools. The section also manages the annual post-primary student census (October Returns) as well as the department's online Post Primary Pupil Database (P-POD).

We administer the payment of various grants such as the:

• Home Tuition Grant Scheme
• Irish Sign Language Scheme
• Typing Scheme
• Assistive Technology Grant Scheme
• ABA schools
• The National Council for Special Education.
• Vocational Training Centres
• The National Braille Production Centre
• Miscellaneous payments to various Organisations

We manage the Post Primary Pupil Database, including annual processing of the October Returns made by post primary schools each year.

• we calculate and pay capitation grants to primary, voluntary secondary and C&C schools
• we calculate and pay ancillary/SSSF grants to primary, voluntary secondary and C&C schools
• we administer funding to the Secondary Education Committee (SEC), Model Schools, Management Bodies and other Special Disadvantage Initiatives
• we discharge a range of operational, resourcing and support functions relating to C&C post-primary schools
• we process Remote Area Boarding Grant (RABG) applications and make payments of same
• we process Assistive Technology Grant applications for post-primary school students