Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My question is to ask specifically why the new schoolbook rental scheme is not available to all schools. I ask the Minister to highlight in particular why schools that set up their book rental schemes in the past year or two, on the advice of the Department and with the encouragement of the Minister, in many instances going into debt in the process, are being excluded.

The Minister is now excluding them from the scheme and only awarding funding to those schools which have not yet taken that initiative. It is very unfair, as they deserve to be included in the scheme.

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