Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On that same point, is there a senior manager in the Department of Education and Skills who is responsible for reporting to the Minister on implementing the guidelines and ensuring they happen as best they can? It was said earlier that there is not an inspection as to how effective they are in the school as such, but there is a commentary. As these are new guidelines, is there a senior manager reporting currently within the Department and responsible for trying to roll them out? Can we have a breakdown on the €500,000 worth of resources as to where they are being allocated?

It was mentioned earlier that guidance counsellors provide autonomy to schools. I have often heard the Minister say that while €32 million is being taken away from career guidance, it provides empowerment to schools to make their own decisions on how they provide it. Let us call a spade a spade - that is sugar coating what is effectively a cut to front-line services delivering mental health and guidance counselling to school students.