Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion

Ms Kathleen Moran:

With regard to school library provision, school libraries can target their supports at any particular group at any particular time, as I have said. In our field, anything that is introduced to benefit a particular group benefits everybody in that all services provided through a school library are provided for the whole school. There may be a focus on a particular group at a particular point in time. We have put in particular supports for Ukrainian students but those supports, whether investment in resources or anything else, are there for the benefit of everybody in the school. They can be targeted but whatever is introduced benefits everybody.