Dormant accounts to fund education

AT least €7.5 million is to be poured from long-term unused bank accounts into schemes to help people who have not benefited from education.

The money is part of the 30m being disbursed from dormant accounts next year, while the remainder will go to the socially and economically disadvantaged and people with disabilities.

The funding targeted at tackling educational disadvantage will be focused particularly on poorer urban areas in the Government’s RAPID programme and parts of the country worst affected by drugs. Groups and projects working with the disadvantaged and the disabled will be invited to apply directly for assistance from next week.