Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

There are 620 people working directly with young people at risk of dropping out of school and the work they do is just as valuable. They are the home school community liaison people who are a link between the parents and the schools to ensure the children stay on in school. They are the school completion fund programme co-ordinators who organise activities such as transition into primary and secondary schools, summer camps, study camps and the DEIS programme, which is targeting——

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