📋 Tender Overview
Minister for Education and Youth Helen McEntee has today (Wednesday) announced the details of the final phase of the Post-Primary Schoolbooks Scheme.
Free schoolbooks and core classroom resources will be provided to all students in post-primary schools in the Free Education Scheme from the 2025/26 school year.
Some 400,000 students, enrolled in approximately 672 post-primary schools and over 80 special schools, will benefit from the extension of the scheme.
Minister McEntee said: I want to ensure that all of our children and young people have the opportunity of access to education which empowers them to thrive and realise the full extent of their potential. Today is a landmark day in that regard; for the first time, almost one million students will get free schoolbooks from the start of the 2025 / 2026 school year.
I want to acknowledge and commend the work of my predecessor Minister Norma Foley in commencing the free school books scheme. This funding package of over EUR123 million will ensure we provide schoolbooks to all post-primary students within the Free Education Scheme. It is a permanent measure that will help to ease the financial burdens facing families at back-to-school time.
