The Taoiseach's Department oversees the north-east inner-city task force. Such is the extent of the crisis in schools funding at the moment that I am meeting with representatives of four schools, Rutland National School being one of them, with Jim Gavin who chairs the north-east inner-city task force to try to understand how more than €50 million from the Taoiseach's Department has been spent on the task force, yet schools are struggling to pay electricity bills. This is extraordinary. We need more of a crisis intervention in terms of helping to support schools the length and breadth of the country. It is very clear that something serious is happening.

My understanding is that significant resources were put into the schools through that programme. This may not have been in the capitation category, but in terms of curriculum supports and other supports in the general area for young people in particular, including therapeutic supports for children and multidisciplinary teams. I think that has worked very well. Again, I will refer this matter to the Minister for Education for a response. Additionally, there are mechanisms in the Department to deal with schools that find themselves in difficulty in terms of the normal financial overheads and so on.