Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Select Committee on Education and Youth

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education and Youth (Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)

I know the Minister of State is representing the senior Minister today, and this is more an issue for her, but I just want to make that point as clearly as possible. Whatever extra allocation we can give to youth services will be returned in spades. That is my experience of it so I want to make that point.

I have a question about the shared island fund. The Minister of State mentioned in his opening statement that this is current rather than capital expenditure now. A number of us attended a launch yesterday from Féach, and Angel Eyes in the North, about shared island-funded research around teacher training and recognition in response to children at school with a visual impairment. What is the plan for the shared island funding, in regard to this Supplementary Estimate?

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