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 Angela Bumster:
No. Some schools do not put the figures in in a very timely fashion. That is the problem. They are putting them in at the end of the school term. That is not allowed under the guidelines but TESS is trying to work with schools to ensure they increase their reporting. If it is in contact with schools, or an education welfare officer, EWO, happens to be in a school with a case, they are reminding them that they need to put these on the portal, so they are coming in.
The data is probably available in tests at the minute but before I publish it, I have to verify it and do a bit of manipulation to calculate it out so that it is in a proper format to publish.
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