Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is the purpose of this investment. If you take it in the context of our wider investment in education through this budget, we are investing €2.9 billion in special education, we are extending the provision of free schoolbooks to all students in the senior cycle and a €75 million increase to capitation funding. The Minister, Deputy Foley, has secured that but she is also cognisant of the concerns of parents across the country when it comes to the use of smartphones in schools. This is a practical measure to give effect to the policy which has been introduced in jurisdictions across the world. It is a great pity that Sinn Féin will not take the time to study this initiative before going to its stock position which is to attack everything. Anger and attack is Sinn Féin's policy, not constructive politics and trying to give a practical outworking of a solution when it comes to the use of mobile phones in schools. Has Sinn Féin listened to the parents whose children have been impacted-----

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