Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Committee on Public Petitions
Business of Joint Committee
1:35 pm
Colette Kelleher (Independent)
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While there is merit in what the Deputy said, it is equally the case that children need time to play. They spend long hours in school and there needs to be good value from the homework they undertake. It is important to have balance in children's lives. While they must, of course, learn, they must also play because they are children.