Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

School Book Rental Scheme: Discussion

2:35 pm

Mr. John Dolan:

In the context of Deputy O'Brien's questions, training and mentoring form only one aspect of the energyineducation.ie website. The website is a self-sustainable platform or energy portal. It is populated with a significant number of fact sheets and videos featuring children in order to show how saving energy can be child's play. Last year there were almost 5,500 unique users of the website and they viewed in the region of 26,000 pages of material. The figures to April of this year show a significant increase in the number of users. Training is only one aspect. Many schools or school communities can download information themselves.