Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I concur with everything Deputy O'Sullivan has said. Subsequent to the larger event to which I referred, I have been to a number of schools.

I always seek out the school completion co-ordinators to hear from them directly about any concerns they may have about their own position, the project workers, contract workers and sometimes teachers who work with them on the programme, how it is and the challenges principals and members of the board of management of the school see with governance issues that have been raised. I have been able to hear all those things first-hand in the context of a number of schools as we deliberate about the best way forward to reform the governance, the programmes that are offered, the services in the context of the educational welfare service and the challenges relating to the employment of the people who do the work.

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