Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed)

Mr. Dalton Tattan:

It is something on which work has already been done. For example, there was an additional €10 million in an ICT grant pushed out to schools earlier in the year with advice to support children who would not have ready access to technology. Along with our colleagues in the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment we have also worked with some of the telecommunications providers to zero rate websites and so forth, and in the case of people who have packages which they might have been exceeding, therefore costing them more, to zero rate some of those too. A number of things have been done and there are further proposals in the pipeline to provide that support, particularly for those who simply do not have the ready access to the technology that is required.

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