Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Emer Smyth:

That benefited students more. We need to be talking about targeting resources to those DEIS schools serving the most disadvantaged groups support students. At the moment, we do not identify the most deprived schools at secondary level in the way that we identify urban band 1 at primary level to provide them with the additional supports.