Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students

Photo of Norma FoleyNorma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely. We are working very closely with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on this, as I mentioned. There is a clarity from our perspective about where we have clear capacity. It is totally understandable that the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has a priority for the families to have accommodation. It is our hope and expectation that as things settle, there will be a greater opportunity for the accommodation needs to match the capacity we have in education. In the short term, our schools are operating magnificently on the ground and rising to the challenge where there may be a greater concentration of families at any given time.

Perhaps there is an opportunity for that to be more streamlined.

Some 1,000 students are availing of the Ukrainian online learning.

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