Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion
Ms Claire O'Connell:
The Irish Prison Service put out a tender. However, it was more to look at literacy difficulties. That has stalled with Covid-19, but I know that they are looking to repeat an adult literacy survey across the prison service in Ireland. Hopefully that will come to fruition. Having the evidence and having the proof is not necessarily as relevant now. The interventions need to be made much earlier.