Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)

My time will probably be up shortly. The key for this has to be how we get parents to interact with schools. We have lost a generation and the generation before that, some of whom are still alive. How do we interact with them to explain how important it is for their children to go to school? The only way we can get many them out of poverty is if they get the education we are looking for. That is the job of work that needs to be done. I do not want to sit here at the end of this committee in four years' time with no progress made whatsoever.

Do we have any idea of how many children were on reduced school days before the school recess?