Ulick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)

Does the Minister of State realise that these are mainly early school leavers and that the benefit of the programme to them is enormous? If there is a failure to recognise this within the Department, the situation is serious. How can any Minister say to schools that they must provide the programme within existing budgets that have already been cut to the bone? The schools do not have the resources to operate the programme.

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