Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Home School Community Liaison Scheme: Discussion
4:00 pm
Mr. Martin Shiel:
I wish to follow on, if I may, from what Ms Kelly has said. The State itself has invested €190 million in DEIS. The Department of Education and Skills has put in €115 million of that sum. That is an additional €5 million for the remainder of this year. Some of that goes to additional psychologists to address the issue that was raised a few minutes ago, as well as additional home school community liaison, HSCL, posts, which were assigned to the new schools that were announced in the programme earlier in the year.
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