Ms Kathleen Moran:

One of the services we offer is access to a digital library service. I mentioned it in our statement. At present, all students and staff in DEIS schools have access. We have recommended and the committee has supported the extension of that service to at least all second level schools and Youthreach centres. There has been considerable demand for that, especially during Covid when people could not access physical materials. We see that students in our schools, including Ukrainian students, use the facilities and the resources in the digital library for language development that we provide. We are adding significantly, with the help of Post-Primary Languages Ireland, to the collection that is available in that library. Again, if students are moved from one of our DEIS schools into a non-DEIS school, suddenly their access is cut and they no longer have access to that resource. We very much encourage the committee to support the extension. It could be quite easily done and it would not cost much to give access to that resource to all schools in the country. It could be done for September quite easily.