Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

That is fine.

I come to something different entirely, home tutors. I heard what Mr. Ó Foghlú said earlier about how that occurred. I have some further questions on that process. Different categories of people will seek home tuition. There are people who actually opt for home-schooling. There is another category of people who find themselves in a situation where their children are out of school, often for fairly complex reasons. They have to go off and find themselves teachers. Invariably, they are at sea. I have come across several parents in that category, including those with a child with special needs leading to behavioural issues, etc. They have to go off and source a teacher for themselves. They often ask me where they should look. Does the change in the categorisation of home tutors have any impact in changing policy in that regard? Obviously, the presumption was that the obligation was on the tutors themselves as almost sole traders, but now they are something different from that. Does that impact on the changing policy?

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