Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Education and her officials are working on the detailed design of that scheme and how it will be operated in practice but I was certainly clear in my own mind and in the budget announcement on the day that it was in respect of publicly funded schools. That was the basis of the discussion we had but it is now a matter for the Minister for Education to work through the detailed design of the scheme and I am sure she will take on board the points made by the Deputy.

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