Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education

Photo of Norma FoleyNorma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I appreciate that. The €50 million investment to secure it for primary level was a significant investment, but a good one. It is my intention and ambition to embed this at primary school level and then the next obvious step would be to move it to post-primary. It was important to start the scheme at the beginning of the education experience, so we are beginning with primary, but it is my ambition, where at all possible and subject to budgetary constraints, as the Senator put it so well, that we will be able to secure it at post-primary in future budgets.