Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Guidance is a general issue as well. The Minister of State, Deputy English, is correct in stating that we need to look at an overall strategy in that regard. I have stated in various forums that there are many demands in the education sector in terms of what we will do with more funding when we have it. It is one of the areas that needs to be considered in terms of an overall strategy.

On the funding for the ETBs, as raised by Deputy O'Brien, we were able to give them a little extra funding at the end of 2014, which helped with their situation, and we will be monitoring it in 2015. It slightly reduced the pressure for them at the end of the year.