Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education
Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Ultimately, the school has a designated teacher who will liaise with parents about distance learning to ensure that any technology that is required is provided. There is provision in the budget for those resources and the Department consistently takes those data to ensure that no child does not have access. The Deputy is right and if there is ever a pandemic again, we want to ensure that nobody is left out on a limb without access to technology to learn.