Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Home School Community Liaison Scheme: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Martin Shiel:

I wish to follow on, if I may, from what Ms Kelly has said. The State itself has invested €190 million in DEIS. The Department of Education and Skills has put in €115 million of that sum. That is an additional €5 million for the remainder of this year. Some of that goes to additional psychologists to address the issue that was raised a few minutes ago, as well as additional home school community liaison, HSCL, posts, which were assigned to the new schools that were announced in the programme earlier in the year.