Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community
Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Shreya Chaturvedi:
Our limited capacity is evident from the backlog of schools that want to be part of the programme. We have had to reject more than 80 schools, some more than once. It is very important, as I said earlier, to look at schools with very few or no Travellers, because most of the schools that want to be part of the programme have a rich cultural diversity in their population. It needs to be adopted by schools which do not have that diversity, otherwise, the problems will manifest when the pupils leave school. We need to address these issues at primary and secondary level.
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