Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth

2:00 am

Ms Cliodhna O'Neill:

There are a number of different sources of funding but the main one is through the school completion programme, SCP, which comes under TUSLA education support services, TESS, and my own division. There has been a significant increase in the funding and the availability because we have put additional funding into that space. We are very conscious of the need for those breakfast clubs. The direction from the Department through TESS to those SCPs is to prioritise in that space.

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