Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

I may have misled the Deputy. I will obtain clarification on this. The information from the briefing I got, which I placed on the record of the House on Tuesday evening, was that 42% of secondary schools do not have a designated full-time guidance counsellor. That is not to say they did not have people with guidance counselling qualifications who are delivering a portion of that service as well as teaching a subject.

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