Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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A prisoner might be completing the leaving certificate. What provisions are put in place for this? Someone in third level education could get a two- or three-year sentence, perhaps for drug offences. Students who leave home and go out into the wild can, all of a sudden, find themselves in prison for two or three years. They could have been halfway through first or second year in college. Is there a basis for online learning? Have we learned from Covid about online learning in third level education? Have we reach this point?